A Math App That Offers an Unusual Human Touch

Tabtor is an expensive iPad math-teaching app for kindergartners through sixth graders. Although free to download and try for two weeks, thereafter it costs $50 a month per child.

At first glance, Tabtor — the name is "tablet tutor" mashed together — does not look particularly different from the hundreds of other math offerings in Apple’s app store and the gazillion math-drill software programs on personal computers.

So what does the $50 a month buy? Unlike any other math teaching app I’ve encountered, it comes with a human being.

By KENNETH CHANG

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/science/tabtor-math-app-has-an-unusual-human-touch.html?hpw&rref=education&_r=0