MathMaster: Math Solver & Help Review - EducationalAppStore (2023)

MathMaster takes your math problems, gives answers, and provides step-by-step methods to achieve them. An Auto Calculator does this using artificial intelligence, but subscribers can ask an expert to respond to their questions for a more personal and insightful explanation.

MathMaster is available for free to download on Android and iOS devices. This version is functional but includes advertisements. A subscription removes the advertisements and lets users consult its experts three times per day.

What is MathMaster: Math Solver & Help app?

MathMaster is a math-solver app that uses a mix of human and artificial intelligence math problem-solving approaches. Each is useful and effective for different purposes. The app has the following main sections:

Expert Chat

Subscribers to MathMaster can set a task for math experts to solve. Creating the tasks is achievable by photographing the problem, drawing it, or typing it in. Once submitted, a math expert will reply with the solution and any relevant guidance. There can be a short in receiving this reply, but subscribers can pay for quicker, premium access.

Each is useful in different situations. Typing in the problems is made more accessible by a dedicated math keyboard with useful formatting options for entering math symbols and complex layouts using fractions.

A subscription comes with a fixed number of daily tasks, although you can purchase more.

Multiple math experts provide the answers for this app, introducing a variable which no review can fully cover. Different experts will give answers in different answer styles.

Knowledge Base/Find a Word Problems Solution

MathMaster includes a well-stocked learning section with user-entered problems and reference materials.

Auto Calculator

Auto Calculator is an artificial intelligence-based solver. It is helpful for more straightforward problems as it still gives a step-by-step answer, is quick, and doesn't count against any of your math-expert tasks.

You can still enter your questions via camera, drawing, or keyboard. The app recognises the text and numbers in problems effectively, and its results during this review process were consistently accurate.

What we love about MathMaster app.

MathMaster's Auto Calculator is a great tool for quick checks.

From an educational point of view, the most crucial feature of MathMaster's Auto Calculator is that it shows solutions step-by-step. It does this well and breaks problems up into logical and helpful steps.

These steps provide handy revision or refresher tips for when learners return to past learning. It might not always match what a teacher would do, as we all have different preferences and approaches, but they should help students who are stuck to move on. This feature combines nicely with the history section, which stores previously entered problems.

What skills does it teach?

MathMaster supports learners as they practice math. The Auto Calculator can answer everything from simple arithmetic problems to calculus. The app's math experts have expertise covering the whole of math.

What age is it appropriate for?

The many types of math problem that MathMaster can solve makes it relevant to the math kids do throughout their education. However, while the app covers the math studied by young kids through to higher-level math, this does not mean kids should use it.

The app has an Expert Chat feature which allows conversations between users and math experts. The app's privacy policy does not indicate a minimum age, but we advise parents to consider the safety implications for their children, particularly those below 16.

Parents of young kids, particularly those homeschooling their kids, will find the app helps to ensure they understand the math their kids are studying. In this case, the app should be exclusively on the parent's device.

Is MathMaster app easy to use?

MathMaster uses a common style of app layout, making it easy to learn how to navigate between the sections. As mentioned in other parts of this MathMaster review, you have a choice of camera, drawing, or dedicated math keyboard to make entering each problem easy.

How will students benefit?

Students need to be self-disciplined to use any math-solver app as a learning aid, but if they are sensible, they can turn any math resources into independent learning material. MathMaster can support students as they learn math in the following ways.

Check

When learners get homework, there is often enough time between learning and attempting the related homework for them to forget what to do. The result can be 10 answers that have taken effort and concentration but which a simple misunderstanding has rendered incorrect.

This result can be disheartening and confidence-sapping. If students check their first answer with MathMaster, they will spot any problems early on and have the chance to resolve them, either by using MathMaster's expert answers or asking their teacher.

Refresh

Seeing a problem solved step-by-step is often enough to refresh learners' memories when they revise. Students don't want to waste time contacting a teacher for explanations during revision periods, so MathMaster's quick, expert answers can help them get going quickly and make the most of their time.

Insights

MathMaster provides extra visual guidance for its answers, such as showing a number line where appropriate. This feature can help students understand why and how the methods they have learned work.

Confidence

Even when learners go a whole math-learning session without using MathMaster, knowing they could have used it to get answers and guidance will have an impact. They'll have the confidence to try and learn independently, knowing they can get help if needed.

How will parents benefit?

The extra information produced even when you enter a simple problem is beneficial to assist parents as they explain how to solve the problem. For example, parents won't need to enter 5+3 to get the answer, but as the app shows the problem on a number line and as a graphical visualisation, it turns the app into a teaching aid.

How will teachers benefit?

While experienced math teachers won't often need to ask MathMaster's experts, the Auto Calculator can be a great double-check tool. Teachers don't want to risk giving their students the wrong answer to set problems, so checking with MathMaster can help to avoid any mistakes.

What can MathMaster app improve on?

MathMaster's Word Problem Solution section includes problems entered by the app's users and then answered. These are reliable because those verified by an expert are marked as such. As humans have looked at these problems, we'd like them to correct typos and ensure accuracy. This extra polish would make the answers feel more reliable and make the app easier to understand for learners whose first language is not English.

The app's website is minimal, providing only a feature list. While the app does have a privacy policy accessible from the app's store page, it is not linked from the website (or even on the same domain). We'd especially like the app to clarify its age limitations on its website.

How much does MathMaster app cost?

MathMaster is free to download.

There are two types of paid content. One is a subscription, which comes with access to all of the app's features, removes the ads, and grants three expert solutions per day. Users can upgrade their subscriptions further to speed up the responses from the app's users. This Prime subscription states that its users' tasks are given the highest priority and will be solved immediately.

Users who need more solutions than come with the subscription can buy coins which they spend as they request answers from the app's math experts. Users of the app can invite friends to use it and earn five free solutions as a referral bonus.

Is MathMaster app safe to use?

MathMaster asks permission to track the device owner's use across other apps and websites. It is impossible to see why any app requires this permission, but in many cases, the developer uses it to assess marketing referrals rather than anything untoward. This permission is unnecessary for MathMaster app to work, and you can decline it.

The app also asks for access to your calendar and notifications. We feel that there is little to gain from users consenting to these.

Users of the app will have the opportunity to converse with the app's experts, and there is no way for parents to disable this feature. If you are using this app to support your kids, you should keep it exclusively on your device rather than any they use unsupervised.

Overall rating of the app.

MathMaster is a great math-solver app. Its mix of artificial intelligence and human experts ensures convenience and effectiveness. The app's lack of age guidance and parental controls preclude it from being an app we can recommend for universal use. However, adult math learners with the self-discipline to use it appropriately and parents supporting their kids as they learn math will find MathMaster extremely useful on their devices