Finally and after spending a lot of hard work, LearningMole finally launched its first Alexa Skill. It could be used at home, in the classroom, or wherever you want but it will manage to serve you in the intended way - or at least we hope so :-)
In order to reach LearningMole on Alexa Skills, all what you will need to do is open this section on Amazon.com and enter "hi5 maths" and you will manage to enter the skill, and don't worry it is free to access so you will find it all easy to reach your destination since no payment is needed. Once you go onto the Amazon store, you will find a button that says 'enable' which you will need to press in order to be ready to go.
The best thing about Alexa is that you could use it on your phone after downloading it since you don't have to have your Alexa unit with you.
Coming to the part of using the application, it is actually very easy to use, so you will not find any complications going along the way. This application is basically a math quiz that is called "hi5 maths" which is based on the idea of five quick mental math questions, these questions are written by an experienced teacher who wants to challenge the kids with their mental math, so it won't be just the easy addition and subtraction questions, but there would be some problem solving questions, mathematical vocabulary, shaping, pattern, symmetry and all these questions that would really give the child a challenge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjrrtRV_opk).
From the interesting features of the skill is that there are five different levels - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - every single one of these levels is related to a specific age range, but it is still upon your choice to use the level that would suit your child no matter how old he/she is. Kids love moving up through the levels in general as some kind of challenging themselves and that's why they will start at level one no matter what level they are supposed to be at.
In this app - or skill - there are lots of questions found there and they are usually chosen randomly, so you will never be given the same five questions again and again, this will give you the chance to do as many levels and as many times as you want.
When we mention that the application or the skill is easy to use, we really do appreciate such a thing because this will make it easier for the kids to use it on their own as well without any assistance from the parents. The skill is now working live, so you could speak to your Alexa app and it will bring you where you want to go with the skill.
Make sure that when you are talking live to the program that you are sitting in a quiet room because if you are not and there are lots of people talking around you, it will tell you that it doesn't understand and you will need to keep repeating until it works.
The application is really really simple to use for the kids, it gives them about 8 to 10 seconds for every question to answer, but if the kids still need more time to answer the question, they could ask Alexa to repeat the question for them so that they could have more time to think and answer the question. Also Alexa will offer the information needed if the kids need a little bit of help regarding the levels for example.
When the kids are done with a specific level, they could stop just there and they could keep moving up the other levels if they want to, it will all depend on their time and what they want to do.
This is an explanation of the app we have launched and how you are supposed to download and use it. It would be a really good thing to receive the feedback from those who would use the application and see what did they like and what they didn't enjoy, so that we could improve in the future. Improving would be always good for us and this could be in the style of questions imposed.
This is really a different way of learning and introducing a little bit of fun, interactivity and challenges into the household for those homeschooling their kids and are always looking up for new methods and games which they could depend on to teach their kids math.
We hope you enjoyed our latest addition to the world of learning and to LearningMole, Alexa Skills is really a fun and interactive way for the kids to learn math and they could even easily use it all on their own without always having a parent to be beside them, all what they might be in need for is a little bit of guidance and some tips at the beginning of it all.
Kids could check some of the educational videos on our YouTube channel to learn some math and know some tricks before they go on to the part of solving problems and answering some questions imposed to them through the 'hi5 maths' quiz that is found on Alexa Skills (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLfSeSHWE78&list=PLEp6HdXIBkhoWu7m0AZ1iRuLTBpWzLOa2).
Hope you enjoyed our new addition to the world of learning and education and we hope that you download the skill and try to solve the quiz questions and problems.
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Hi everyone, Michelle here from Learning Mo and I've decided to go live today because
Learning Mo have just released our first Alexa skills. It was all very, very exciting.
We released it about two weeks ago but we've been really testing it and seeing how it really
works out. So we've decided now it's time to just do a little live video to show it working
and to show you how you might want to use it at home or really even for a small group in a
classroom. Now you'll have to excuse my voice, I've got a bit of a quirky voice today so hopefully
Alexa is going to be able to understand me. So if you just go into the Alexa skills section on
the Amazon website and type in Hi5Maths, you'll be able to access the skill. It's totally free
so no payment is needed and once you go into the Amazon store you will see a little button here
that says enable. You just click on that and you will be ready to go. Now the beauty of Alexa is
you don't actually even need to have an Alexa unit, you can use your phone. So I'm just going
to show you actually using my iPhone today. I've downloaded the Alexa app onto my iPhone so it
means you can do it in the car which we tend to do quite regularly. We've been using it in the car
or you can do it anywhere you want and it means you don't have to have your Alexa unit with you
but you can use that as well. So I've already enabled the skill and I've downloaded the Alexa
app onto my phone. I'm just going to open the app and it's really really easy to use and it's
basically a maths quiz and it's called Hi5Maths with the idea that it's five quick bar mental
maths questions. Now they have all been written with me and those of you that know me and that
follow my channel knew that I am and was a teacher for over 15 years and I still do a lot of teaching
and so the questions are written by a teacher who really understands the curriculum and really
wants to challenge children in their mental maths. So it won't be just simple addition or subtraction
questions, there'll be some problem solving in there, there will be different ways of using
mathematical vocabulary, there'll be shape and space, patterns, symmetry, all of that nice stuff in there so
to really give your child a challenge. Within the skill there are five levels, level one, two, three,
four, five and if you just check the description of the app you'll see the different age ranges
in there. So we're talking level one in and around five, six year olds, level two, six, seven year olds
and so on but do feel free to use the levels however way you want. In our house they always
start at level one, it doesn't matter what age they are, they just love that challenge of moving
up through the levels so you can judge exactly where your child is at and what level of challenge
you want to give and there's no problem if they try a level that's too difficult for them, they
can always practice and try again. There are lots of questions in the app or in the skill and they
are randomly chosen so you'll never be given the same five questions again and again so you can do
as many levels as many times as you want. So let's get started, so I've downloaded the Alexa app onto my
iPhone and I'm just going to access the app and I'm just going to basically show you the skill
in motion and so it's very very easy to use and very simple to use and your child could probably
use it themselves, you don't even need to be there. So click on the button and I'm going to ask and call
Alexa high five maths. Welcome back to high five maths, the last time you stopped at level
one and had five answers correct. At what level do you want to start the quiz now?
You can choose between level one, two, three, four or five. Level one, don't want to be too challenging
just in my first live video with Alexa. Sorry I didn't understand what you said. So one little
tip for you is that you do need a quiet room so if there's other people talking it will pick up on
that and it will tell you it doesn't understand. So just say what you want to say and leave it
at that and I know it can be quite frustrating but that's just how Alexa works. So I'm going to try
again and I'm just going to close the app down and I'm going to open it up again and I'm not going to
talk over it this time. I need to remember that. Okay so let's go into my Alexa app.
Alexa high five maths. Welcome back to high five maths, the last time you stopped at level one and
had five answers correct. At what level do you want to start the quiz now? You can choose between level
one. You choose level one. The quiz starts now. Question number one is, what is the next number
in the sequence? Two, four, six, eight. Eight was correct. Question number two is, what is half of
four? Two. Two was correct. Question number three is, which number is bigger, 16 or 11?
16. 16 was correct. Question number four is, I have nine toy cars. My friend Mike has two.
How many cars do we have all together? Three. Three was wrong. The correct answer would have
been 11. Question number five is, what is half of two? One. One was correct. Good job. You have
answered four of five correct. You can now start a new quiz. Choose a new level or you can close
high five maths. Remember that you can find more quizzes, great educational videos and cartoons at
learningworld.com. So as you can see, really, really simple to use. I would reiterate that
you probably do need a quiet room because as you've seen, if you talk over it or you add extra
answers that you're not actually supposed to be answering if you're having a conversation,
Alexa won't recognise it and unfortunately that is just Alexa at the minute. I'm sure as Alexa
develops and it will actually be able to pick out your voice over other people and but I know
that's probably something that they're working on furiously as we speak. So it's really, really
simple to use. That's a really quick fire way of showing it and if you do need more time, you've
roughly between eight and ten seconds to answer a question but if your child does need more time,
just ask for Alexa to repeat and the question will be repeated. At any point you can ask for help
and Alexa will give you a wee bit of information about choosing the levels again.
Where I actually stopped there, you don't need to stop. You can do another section of five
questions within that level. You can move to a more difficult level or you can do what I did
and close. So again, a very, very brief little insight into our new app. I hope to do a more
robust version of it in the future but I hope you enjoyed that and we all always appreciate
feedback on Learning Mode. So if you do go on there and you try the app, it would be great to
get some feedback. It's always great for us to keep improving and maybe you've got other styles
of questions you'd like us to add in but I really hope you enjoy learning with our new Alexa skill
and just another little way of introducing a little bit of fun interactive learning to your
household and try level five so you can try and challenge yourself as well. So that's us from
Learning Mode today and hopefully see you again soon.
