What is Mindspark?

Mindspark is a computer based self-learning programme that helps the child improve her skills in Maths. Through an intelligent program logic, it allows each student to follow a learning path that is based on her need – at a pace she is comfortable with. The interactive interface ensures that the student is not learning passively by listening to someone, or viewing ready-made solutions, but learning by answering questions of progressively increasing complexity levels.

Students tend to find certain Maths concepts confusing and the difficult levels are not the same for every child. Repeated failure to solve sums leads the child to losing interest in the subject. At the heart of Mindspark is the theory that students learn best when they control the pace of learning. Every child has her own pace of learning. There have been several successful experiments worldwide on this. Mindspark is inspired by various such experiments.

A key advantage of Mindspark is the fact that it successfully harnesses the power of new technologies to bolster learning. An intelligent computer system uses a complex adaptive logic to decide what problem to serve up to a student next, based on her response to the current problem and problems answered earlier. The student not only learns at her pace but is allowed to clear her doubts with the help of explanations where needed. The system is able to identify when a student needs help to understand a concept, and proceeds to give her explanations that will help her move ahead.

Some of the modules available in Mindspark are given below: