this app is good for kids who need help with:

Self-Awareness

Understanding our own actions, thoughts and feelings.

SmartTutor presents its users with the opportunity to track their progress. Monitoring the pace in which new content is learned is an important skill for any developing academic to have. While the culminating reports tend to be more for parents to review, it is important for users to know how quickly they are progressing and acquiring new sets of learning skills. The website directly targets the weaknesses of its users by incorporating information from their assessments into the algorithm that SmartTutor uses to choose the topics for new lessons and activities. The activities and quizzes that users are given after the assessment allow them to understand their strengths and tackle the academic weaknesses that the report revealed.

Flexibility

Adapting and adjusting to changing conditions and expectations.

Because SmartTutor exposes users to learning in a completely digital format, users will use adaptive thinking to adjust to the nature of their learning to accommodate the online medium. The service may be unfamiliar at first when compared to traditional classroom-based learning, but over time users can gain familiarity and should learn to embrace the unique twist on learning that the site offers. SmartTutor's content consists of interactive activities and quizzes, with short games tastefully inserted throughout. Users will be using a variety of adaptive thinking strategies to shift between the often varied nature of activities, quizzes, and games, helping them to stay engaged and active in the learning process.

Mathematics

The robust math section helps users practice a variety of early grade-level topics. Depending on their strengths and weaknesses, users will likely encounter subjects like numbers and operations, algebra, data analysis, geometry, and measurement. Each lesson has several components: a tutorial, practice, and a quiz. The more difficult a subject is, the more components the lesson will have. Lessons with up to 7 components can take some time to finish, and it is recommended that users pause from time to time and move on to another activity or game in order to avoid over-saturation. SmartTutor uses a varied mix of videos, reading material, and interactive assignments which can help keep users absorbed in the learning process -- something not always easy when dealing with math.

Reading

While the initial reading assessment is quite lengthy, it is well worth the time, as users will be able to gauge their reading levels and find out where they need help most. The site breaks reading into a series of different categories: phonics, phonemic awareness, sight words, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. Referred to by SmartTutor as "Reading's Big 5," these categories are directly targeted, among others, by the website's carefully crafted literary activities.