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The overall reputation of the company is significantly challenged by customer feedback, with a predominant sentiment of frustration and dissatisfaction. Users consistently express that the platform is overly complicated and repetitive, leading to feelings of stress and confusion. Many reviews highlight issues with the instructional design, particularly in the "Tower of Power," where students feel unsupported and overwhelmed. While some users acknowledge minor positives, such as the warm-up exercises, the overwhelming majority of feedback indicates that the service is not meeting the needs of its users, particularly students. This disconnect between teacher endorsements and student experiences suggests a critical need for reevaluation of the platform's usability and instructional effectiveness.
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Each time I pick an answer which is correct, it says I'm wrong, but then they show the right answer and it was exactly what I put, and then on one question, for example, the difference between 7 and -8, they didn't include 7 and -8, only what was in between those 2 numbers, but the next question, which was written the exact same, same type of question, for some reason they included 7 and -8 this time and I got it wrong, they literally change up the answers and the ways to get the answer correct, seriously what is this?
Pretty bad, Everything overall is bland and makes no sense. Even teachers hate it! Just never use it because it takes a long time, doesn't make sense, and makes you want to grab a hammer and smash the device you are using it on
I DON'T EVEN KNOW AT THIS POINT. ZEARN IS COMPLETE TRASH, NOT ONLY ARE THE QUESTIONS ARE BAD, BUT IT'S CONFUSING! THE TOWER OF POWER IS LEGIT THE DEFINITION OF HELL, AND PIP IS THE DEVIL HIMSELF! DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE EVER IN YOUR LIFE. EVER. Update, September 4th, 2025 3 years later and I still believe this website was purposefully designed for psychological torture in mental asylums. Tower of power is straight up the incarnation of hell itself on earth, and like I said, Pip is the incarnation of the anti-christ himself. It is never worth it to even THINK about zearn, even if it is a major summative that's important to your grade. *******000*******000*******000*******000**************/10
Zearn is an awful website. It's unnecessary and awful for my child. The Math Chat feature doesn't help my child at all, it simply is an inconvenience. Zearn allows people to skip through the videos, and they can continuously guess the answer, and Zearn gives them pity and just lets them skip it. The child doesn't even have to complete said lesson to continue. The first lesson is a game, the second lesson is the math chat, and the 3rd lesson is "The Tower of Power" From what I have seen, most people just stop at math chat. Zearn is an awful website for teaching impressionable children.
I'm a student at a school in Wyoming, where my teacher has us use this program every time we have extra time, and it just tries to teach me how to do stuff I already know.
Zearn is such a waste of time. It says, does 13+2, you do what it tells you to do, and it says it is wrong. Then they just blabber away by saying some formula that doesn't even make any mathematical l sense in the first place. So NEVER DO ZEARN AGAIN!
Did you know that this app sucks because the tower of power is too hard and i almost smashed my computer 9,678 times. Make zearn 4k because i get 1 frame per second
This is so dumb! It doesn't even teach you anything, and why is the math chat and Zearn squad videos so long!? And when you get a question wrong two times on the Tower of Power then it restarts all your hard work! Also it only lets you watch one wild card a day! I definitely don't think you should play this!
My overall rating of zearn is about 1.18 stars, mostly because you can't assign specific lessons, so basically you have to get your students to a specific lesson without being able to skip lessons.
My son hates this "educational" app, every day he uses this he ends up punching his computer and crying. On the Tower of Power, you have to get every single question right, or else it starts you over and "gives you a boost," but that so-called boost is just the app giving you a completely different problem and doesn't teach you anything. If there are any teachers reading this, learn from other's mistakes and never make your students use this app!
Zearn is the worst i'm in fourth grade and the "warn ups are for 1st graders.it turns a simple problem such as 3 times 9 in to the longest math problem ever!they also add way to many usless steps!the tower of power when you do one mistake you lose all your progress and can make kids very anxious!NEVER USE ZEARN.
Zearn is a over used math game that is unhealthy for a child's neural pathways I do not recommend Zearn all its problems are also too easy for my students.
This is the worst math app I have ever used. I remember when I was on the tower of power and was on the last problem and then the stupid do you need a boost showed up and I literally almost punched my computer. In conclusion this is the worst app I have ever used.
I had to do zearn lessons as homework every week for a year I knew everything o them but the methods confused me they are trying to make math more complicated than it need be
Hello, I am a fifth-graders parent. Anyways, I made this review to let all of you know that Zearn is a useless, pointless website that kids should never use in their schools. I've seen many other kids complain on this website about this annoying box that keeps saying "Need a boost? Let's go over this together." Basically what this means, is that you have to redo the whole entire problem again just for nothing. Additionally, in the "tower of power", you have to get everything correct without making any mistakes or else this obnoxious box will keep saying the same thing. I feel very bad for the other kids who use this terrible website. However, there are way better websites such as I.X.L (which someone else mentioned). The other problem I've had with this bad website is that they are very childish. They make these things called "wild cards" which are essentially just random images of some old man just dancing or something. My child always screams and punches his computer just because of Zearn. They also just copy Eureka math so that means that you're just looking at copied work.
The amount of times zearn has made me have a mental breakdown is too much to count. You mess up one question and they give you that dumb "Looks like you need a boost :)" thing which is so annoying istg. Zearn has literally never helped me at all. The only thing it has made me done is make me want to rage quit and I hate it so much.
Hello there, Zearn is stressing me out so much right now, every time you get an answer wrong, It brings you back to the beginning of the lesson, and makes you redo the whole thing all over again, and it's kinda annoying, wait no scratch that- it's very annoying. And i just don't want to have to deal with redoing the whole lesson all over again, just because I got one answer wrong! I just wish it wasn't so stressing, like take I-Ready for an example. Whenever you get an answer wrong, sure it give you a few more chances, but it doesn't force you to redo the whole thing all over again. Please change the tower of power, because it stresses me, and every other student out. I've had many mental breakdowns on this program, and I can only imagine the amount of rage quits everyone else is having right now. So in all due to respect, just please fix it. I'm not doing this for myself, I'm doing this for almost every struggling student. Thanks:D
Edited at 12:25 PM: Whenever I'm about to flip out, I try to at least take deep breaths, and try not to injure my self, it's just really hard to do that despite how annoying the program acts.
It's very annoying when zearn does not save and sometimes when my internet is at very high mpbs it doesn't save so they sometimes have to do the entire part of the lesson again. Not many problems other than raging at zearn, Overall zearn is good for a learning platform. Zearn Is a great learning platform but please, when in the tower of power after if you get it wrong please increase it to 3. Zearn helps people understand things and in the first second, please don't let the kids click other lessons in other missions. Those lessons in the other missions might be something the kids didn't learn.
Sometimes, it says 55+9=64 and it says it's wrong/ I hate these glitches!
I, myself, hate Zearn because it does not help with math at all. Children are having trouble focusing on stuff due Zearn pressuring them into getting it right, and if they get it wrong on ToP (Tower of Power), they have to restart and do a entirely different equation, causing them to feel tormented because they are being forced into something they don't like. Overall, don't use Zearn at all, and schools shouldn't use it either!
Everything about this is kiddish and tedious, In the tower of power, it acts like you get a second chance, yet it still sends you to the bottom. It is extremely annoying to use, and the narrators don't give much information.
Answer: Everything...
Answer: Yes on my own I know it is a pain and not worth it.
Answer: No that is not possible because it barely has the qualifications to be educational
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