- Grades
- Roughly grades 3 through 12. Ten courses are sold by course name, not by grade: Math 3, Math 4, Math 5, Math 6, Math 7, Pre-Algebra,…
- Subjects
- Mathematics only. Nothing else. There is no language arts, science, history, or elective content of any kind. The ten courses are Math 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Pre-Calculus. Each course level is a separate purchase and a separate app.
- How it runs
- Fully self-paced, on-demand, installed-app. There are no live classes, no cohorts, no scheduled meetings, no due dates set by the company. A typical lesson: the student opens the course app, watches the interactive lecture for that lesson, works the lesson's…
- Who teaches
- Recorded software instruction, not a person. Every lesson is delivered by a pre-recorded interactive audiovisual lecture inside the app, identical for every student. No live teacher, no assigned instructor, no discussion, no office hours. There is one genuine human channel: Teaching Textbooks includes free telephone…
- Who grades
- The software grades everything, automatically, with no human in the loop. Teaching Textbooks states plainly that the program grades every problem as soon as the student enters each answer and gives instant feedback, storing results in a printable gradebook held permanently on their servers. No employee, teacher, or tutor ever reads, marks, or evaluates a student's written work. There is no submitted work of any…
- What the parent does
- Concrete and front-loaded, then very light. The parent must: create the account and purchase the correct level; print and administer the free placement test and pull the answer key page before handing it to the child; download the right app for each course level onto each device the student will use; assign the course to the student and set the start date, which starts the 12-month clock; choose settings such as…
- Credit and records
- Not accredited, and Teaching Textbooks makes no accreditation claim anywhere on its site. It is a publisher in Oklahoma City, not a school, so it awards no credit and issues no transcript. What you do get: a permanent, printable gradebook per course, stored on their servers and reachable indefinitely through the Parent Portal, plus free downloadable printable certificates of…
- Cost
- Per student, per course, per 12 months, paid once up front. Published prices on teachingtextbooks.com: Math 3, Math 4, Math 5 are $48.95 each; Math 6 and Math 7 are $63.95 each; Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, and Geometry are $79.95 each; Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus are $83.95 each (verified directly on the Math 3 page at $48.95, Algebra 1 at $79.95, Algebra 2 at $83.95:…
- Alaska notes
- Bandwidth: this is the friendliest part of the fit. The app downloads only the next few days of lessons, works fully offline for up to 6 lessons, and uploads when the connection returns, so a Starlink or satellite outage or a village link that drops for a couple of days does not stop school. Streaming-only competitors do stop. Expect the heaviest data use at install time,…