Anonymous

Teacher's Critic

I'm a middle grades math teacher and I am not a fan of the iReady program AT ALL. I cannot count on the data that is provided by the program because my students despise it.

They take their diagnostics, but I'm sure they do not always give their best efforts. After being forced to do 45 minutes/week, plus their biweekly or monthly growth-monitoring, they are sick of the program. It is described as "degrading" by many of my kids. The way that the characters speak and the slow pace of the lessons are annoying.

Also, iReady has made end-of-the-year projections for my students that are much lower than what really happens. I think there is a definite discrepancy between the iReady projections and the Georgia Milestones results.

Please address these concerns so that you can provide an impactful resource to students for mathematics. Khan Academy is really showing you up, and their site is FREE.

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Anonymous

I-Ready is the worst thing that's ever happened to me!

My math teacher makes my class do 2 i-Ready lessons each weekend. It sucks so bad!

I just did 6 lessons because I was behind trying to catch up. It only counted 2 of them! I did the quiz and everything! It spends 99.9999 percent of it's time talking about some trash and wasting your time.

The graphics are horrible and it is slow and has tons of bugs. You learn nothing from it except for some very *** jokes. If you are a parent who's kid has to do this make an agreement with the teacher or something! There are much better websites like ST Math of First In Math.

Whatever you do, just avoid i-Ready as much as possible. I hate it so much.

I hope you take my advice! Bye!

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Anonymous

I *** ready

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This *** is poorly animated and fails to reach what it is designed for i had other websites like achieve 3000 which actually was more helpful than i-ready and another website that teaches math was more challenging, fun, and made you learn something but i-ready is *** I've been using it for only 1 year and i *** hate it, it tends to *** me off easily and the tutorial takes forever and when the test comes you probably already forgot what they were saying since you were doing something else and I've done all the things they are trying to teach me so they aren't teaching anything and the *** characters sound so *** annoying one example is bella's workshop the boy is clearly going through puberty and his voice is *** awful and infinite dimensions luna's dad can barely be understood another thing is the rewards after you finish misery the rewards suck all the game have terrible controls or are horrible copies of each other such as astro board and space skier i wonder how this *** is still on the internet and why are they still using it for schools i have to do it for 30 minutes and i directly do something else. for me they only have two options make i-ready better which i doubt or delete i-ready from the internet and use other learning websites
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Guest

Man, I ready sucks

Guest

all that and more i dont care if they see this comment they need to wake up and smell the coffee this stuff sucks so bad

Guest

This is so true. I hate Iready.

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Anonymous
map-marker Billerica, Massachusetts

I ready sucks

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I ready gave me a lesson and they didn't explain one of the concepts so I failed the quiz. The lessons are too long they take an hour to do part one of the tutorial. the students in my class hate I ready so much they want to break the Chromebook. We get it for homework but we get no time to do it because there is a diagnostic every 2 weeks so we can't do them in class. the animation is terrible the voices hurt your ears when you have to listen to them for an hour they are so annoying. the lessons are also repetitive
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  • Staff
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Anonymous
map-marker Red Bank, New Jersey

I ready is the WORST THING EVER

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I ready lies a lot. I couldn't agree more with the negitive reviews and guess what, that *** hasn't changed.

I ready is flat out boring and the characters and animation me nausious. ANother thing is that it glitches so much, I could barely tell whats right and out administrators refuse to recognize how terrible i ready is. Another thing is how annoying it is. The "math" and "reading" is just 99% lame jokes that don't make any sense and 1% actual learning that is WRONG!

Yeah you heard me IT SUCKS. The animation hurts my eyes and when you start it teaches things you learn in kindergarten and when i get on when were reviewing, compound words the first thought that enters your mind: "Is this a joke that the administrators are pulling or is this seriously the site that they've been bragging about for so long?!" Unfortunately it was. I was like "You are kidding me" when I had started the first lesson in Math.

I could not believe how *** it was. HOnestly for the first few weeks I thought that they were gonna shut it down and I was really hoping they were but they didn't respond at all.

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Guest

I agree, my mother likes this piece of crap and says that people who don't like this are autistics, I think that people who like i-ready are autistics and i-ready slaves

Guest

so true

Guest

I have been doing I ready for 5 years I’m still trash at the tests but when I take a normal test I can ace it

Guest

noice

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I’d rather get a detention than do iready it’s making me RAGE

Guest

I hate iReady more than anything!!!!!! It's *****.

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iready sucks oh no there coming RUNNNNNNN

Guest

Lol. I am in school and I'm supposed to be doing I-ready right now.

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same

Guest

do you know how to spell? this was probably written by a ten year old to be honest.

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Anonymous
map-marker Glendale, California

The Quality of Program is very low. Discourages learning

The program is slow, takes so long for statements to be made, graphics are 0 compared to other educational games that students have access to. Why isn't there any improvement to the instruction pace or quality of graphics being made?

My students don't like to use it. It is soooooooooooooo slow for them, makes them repeat instructions of half an hour or longer if it gets some kind of a glitch during the quiz, and they get so frustrated that they won't sit down on it again!

for younger students the pronunciation of the letters for phonics lessons is not clear, they easily confuse the sound of S and F. This program needs major improvement if it is to be used for schools.

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Nalanie Dvi

Attention everyone! I have something to say:

Iready is BS

Iready is BS

Iready is BS

I do it myself.

It's true. I am DUMBER than I was before I did it.

Sekyan W
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oh look it's one of my old comments (suppresses shame) and I'm at a new school and i-Ready has not helped me at all. Algebra's hard when all you did was multiplication facts and stared at a computer for actual hours

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Anonymous

I ready is the worst thing ever

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First of all, all the students hate it and the quizzes teach the exact OPPOSITE of what they are supposed to teach, the only way I pass them if through hacking the answers. The voice acting is horrible and so is the god *** animation.

EVEN THE TEACHERS HATE THIS SOFTWARE BUT THE BOARD MAKES THEM USE IT.

I am just so annoyed since we have no free time and ruins all the kids in our school's childhood since we had to do a bunch of lessons during a BREAK. It needs to be deleted from the whole internet, it's just horrible and I don't get how people find it educational when it teaches easy math and literature.

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Anonymous

I-ready repeat on test PLUS ADDS

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while on "I-ready" I was doing it and everything is ok, then when I get to the end of the lesson there is a ADD!!! the add was inside the lesson!!!!!! This isn't ok also when I was doing a test IT KEPT REPEATING QUESTIONS I WOULD DO A QUESTION AND ANOTHER THEN IT WOULD MOVE ON TO ANOTHER QUESTION, AFTER THAT THE FIRST QUESTION WOULD COME UP! THIS IS NOT OK. this isn't ok I don't like this. why do you put a ADD inside a childs math learning system? 50,000 people have rated you 1 STAR. its also glichy. NOT OK! YOU NEED TO FIX THINGS UP! A LOT! ! NOT OK!
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Guest

I guess they haven't updated that thing for 10 years

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If you see an advertisement while using i-ready you have either a virus or a browser plug-in that is serving the ad. There are NO ads on i-ready.com.

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Anonymous
map-marker New York, New York

If you want your kid to stay normal do not show this to them

there is a secret project called i ready which is "supposedly" to increase the grades of students. it does not its a lazy animated mess it would make disney commit suicide as a company if they saw this . the most you get out of it is *** jokes and... more *** jokes. you learn next to nothing which is also an issue because it makes students who are in the 11th grade learn to count to 20 and vice versa which is why i robert pest am writing this review. but i have not even began to scratch the surface so be expecting a part.2 very soon.
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Anonymous

It's just sad

I've been doing I-Ready for about two years now. Let me say, I absolutely hate it.

So do my math and language art teachers. It gives you problems my eight year old sister can do, and I'm in middle school. This will sound petty, but the character's voices are very annoying. It's hard to concentrate when your head hurts, not because of the difficultly of the problem, but because of the voice of the people (or should I say, computer) teaching it to you.

Half of the time, I'll put in the correct answer and it'll say it was wrong. In sixth grade, I-Ready attempted to teach me that in an addition problem, you're NOT supposed to carry the number until you are completely finished. That makes math nearly impossible to do, you're bound to make mistakes using that method. This will sound kind of weird, but there's this one character that apparently has a "crush" on another character and it's really awkward.

The whole time, the character is saying things like "He's so dreamy!" and I'm attempting to do math. It is distracting and kind of disturbing, to be honest. I haven't learned a single thing from this program. I would rather it just be taken away so we can have more time in the classroom learning things instead of staring at a computer screen for a half an hour.

Getting rid of I-Ready would also mean we could have more free time outside of school.

If a student really needs math practice, there are numerous websites that will adequately help, unlike I-Ready. I hope soon the school board will get rid of it.

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Guest

if i had a choice of iready or watching paint dry, i would pick the paint in a heartbeat

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This review is the best and shows what iready really is

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Anonymous

Not even monkeys like I ready

Wow just wow if you didn't think that in today's society that the education system is lazy well I ready takes it a step further.if you hate painfully forced puns and stereotypes than I ready is not for you or anyone, please take note for the safety of you're child and anyone who uses this website.The animation is horrible, the jokes are obnoxious, and worst of all you get nothing out of it. Shure it may look like it's "educational" but it's just very dumb downed and disguised to look educational.

The company will try to presuade teachers into buying this hunk of garbage THAT EVEN MY TEACHERS AGREE THAT THIS SITE IS GARBAGE but we still use it becuase the state requires us too. Listen there is nothing wrong with educating kids from a computer BUT WHY DO WE HAVE TO USE THE MOST DUMBDOWNED SITE EVERMADE.

And this is coming directly from a kid and we speak that this site is garbage. Shure people will brush it off as we just don't like school and learning, while some of that might be true it's just that to many people have been ranting about I ready.........so I and many others agree that this site sucks AND DONT USE IT

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Guest

I-Ready was made for people like you who can't spell.

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They do have a point though. All of the lessons are just a bunch of shoehorned puns that make them even longer, like they've said.

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Anonymous
map-marker Yonkers, New York

I READY the reason i hate my school

im from ny i am a student from greenburgh academy an i ready is a waste of my time i tested to see if other reviews were true and they were(mostly) its a waste of money my school lost about 5,000$ off this site me and my friends do it complete it and it makes us to the exact same lesson over and over again i tried to contact the site they did not respond the animation is horrible its not educational that much its mostly jokes. and REALLY!

a character who is in a wheelchair is named.....

axel really you creators of this site you are offensive enough to make fun of the disabled this site's education is horrible im in 10th grade what am i getting? the differences of even and odd numbers my classmates have the same issue and teachers do NOTHING which is why im going on strike each time i am told to do iready i will protest against it and here is where i curse THIS $&*t site MAKES ME WANT TO BE F*&%ING RETARDED SO I CANT GET MAD AT THIS SITE this site is one reason why our education is going down and not up we need to make our future better by changing the present.

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Guest

I agree.

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I am to a student and I feel that I-ready is making us dummer.

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Anonymous

*** POOR

This is the biggest waste of anyones time and i would not wish this *** upon anyone else. if donald trump would like to make the internet great again they must start with this mediocre site known as iready down.

its really useless and dumb, even they arent smart enough to do math. if you really wanna know what this will turn your kid into.. it will dumb them to the maximum. i cannot even begin to tell you how much this idiocy is to me.

if you want your child to use this do a few *** poor lessons then not learn a thing you should definitly use this brand. The company is great though, its just the site im mad at.

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Guest

Who made I- Ready/

Anonymous

Curriculum Associates - I-ready Program Review

I-ready is really bad. I've been using it all this school year and it sucks.

I have to redo lessons and the characters have whiny or irritating voices. It needs to be stopped

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Guest

I'm in 6th grade and our class is forced to use IRetard. Everyone hates it.

Its so bad! The animation is awful. The characters walk like Frankenstein, they are ugly, and the outlines are way too thick! They make you do the same boring lesson OVER AND OVER!

The characters go on and on about useless things, (they make me fall asleep) and never even try to help you if you miss a question! On the Growth Check, they make you read about Percival Lowell and Pluto EVERY DANG TIME! Ugh! It's useless, really.

The acting is terrible because one of the characters has a british accent and it sounds SO FAKE.

Plus the characters don't know how the definition of "dangerous" even though they're in high school! Stay away from this atrocity.

Anonymous

I-Ready SUCKS

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Where do I start? The character's voices are SUPER annoying, the tutorials take forever, and it's just so dumb.

The lessons are confusing, and I have to do this bs EVERY SINGLE WEEK!!!!! If you don't pass a certain amount of points, it makes you take the same boring, annoying lessons all over again. This program looks and feels like it was made by a kindergarten student that doesn't know ANYTHING about computers. The characters also look like they were made by an Elementary schooler.

Bottom line: NEVER make your kids do I-Ready.

It's more like I-Not-Ready. Thank you for your time, case closed.

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Guest

True that, homie.

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