StarrMatica

Likemost teacherpreneurs, former elementary school teacher Emily Starr createdStarrMatica to solve her own problem: hours of wasted time spent looking forlow-cost, high-quality digital content that would help her students masterreading and math. StarrMatica is a curated collection of resources designed toteach, reinforce and assess basic skills for grades K-6. Students or teachersbegin by searching or browsing a topic by grade, state or Common Core standard,or textbook unit; then, they select whether they want to learn it (or in thecase of teachers, to use the animated lesson in front of a group or class alongwith a projector or interactive whiteboard), practice it, or test it usingopen-ended responses. Many topics also contain dozens of links to relatedresources from other providers. If StarrMatica’s classroom management system isused, teaches can develop and share collections of content for individualstudents, and StarrMatica will record students’ first attempt and best attempton practice activities and tests.

StarrMaticahas moderate reach: it is used by hundreds of schools and tens of thousands of schoolsacross 20 states. Parent memberships cost about $100/year, and for schools, annualcosts range based on the number of students and whether the membershipincludes individual student progress accounts, from $300 for an individualclassroom to $2100 for a large K-6 school that also wants to track individual studentprogress. A mobile version is in development.