What's the Bzz: The Factor Tree

Life is always sweet when you're a BzzAgent!

As a member of BzzAgent, I recently had the opportunity to try out a fantastic website, The Factor Tree with a free, one month trial - and you can too! Read on to find out how.

The Factor Tree is an interactive math skills website for kids between the pre-K and 6th grade level, but my two year old number nerd loved it as well! The sign-up process is simple, and your child will begin with a skills assessment test before being placed in a program designed to enhance performance in weak areas while also ensuring practice and progress in stronger areas.

After our assessment test, we began a fun, colorful, and friendly practice session that focused mostly on counting groups of objects. Everything was easy to see, and large enough that we could reach out to the monitor and count each one. With a little practice and encouragement, my daughter could easily put the numbers in by herself using the simple interface. Towards the end of the session, different types of questions, like telling time on a clock and an introduction to fractions where she was asked how many slices of a multicolored circle were a particular color. We were able to skip questions when necessary, and were told right away if an answer was wrong or right.

The cool part for parents is that The Factor tree offers a wide variety of tools to track your child's progress and help them succeed. For example, you can alter the different types of questions offered to the student, track progress, test history, and other statistics, and even the ability to schedule and monitor a learning plan with a neat calendar feature.

As a mathematics teacher and long time tutor, I thought the program was a great way to not only teach kids better math skills, but allow them to have fun in the meantime. As a mom, it was just great to see my daughter not only learning, but getting the instant gratification and pride that comes with knowing you're doing a good job as you go along. With the customization options offered to parents, and the sense of independence a child can gain by having an individualized program they can work on themselves, the program as a whole is hard to beat. Especially since.....

.....you too can sign up for a free, one month trial! Just head on over to The Factor Tree and enter the code BZA for a month of learning and fun!