Lessons that answer back.
Write a lesson once. Teach it on the board, play it as a live quiz or set it as homework. Pupils shade, plot, type, draw and speak their answers, and Montessa marks them as they go.
Fractions: halves, quarters and eighths
Year 4 · Chapter 2 of 4 · live with 24 pupils
Shade three quarters of the circle.
That's right, first time.
22 of 24 answered
Lessons
Every page is a lesson pupils can answer.
Notes, lessons and worksheets reflow to any screen, from the classroom board to a parent's phone. Any block can be a question, marked the moment it is answered, and the answers never reach the pupil's browser.
- Maths you can touchFraction models, number lines, area grids, clocks and coordinate grids, drawn from numbers. Pupils shade, place, set and plot, and are marked at once.
- Questions of every shapeMultiple choice, typed answers, gaps, matching, ordering, sorting and labelled diagrams, with partial credit and up to three tries.
- Chapters with gatesA chapter opens when a pupil continues, answers everything or reaches a pass mark. Timed tests are handed in with no going back.
Maths task · Year 4 fractions and time
Shade three quarters of the circle.
Tap the slices to shade them. The circle is cut into eighths.
This is a real Maths task block, drawn and marked by the same code your pupils use.
Live lessons
Turn any lesson into a live game.
Put a section on the board and the class joins from their phones with a code. Split the room into teams, watch the answers arrive and reveal the results together.
- Teams, balanced as they joinTwo to four teams, on the leaderboard, the end screen and the report you keep afterwards.
- Teach modeA timer, a name picker, a group maker, a pen and a blank screen, ready on the board.
- Fair revealsPhones learn whether an answer was right only when the teacher reveals it.
Live game · Science and maths warm-up
24 pupils have joined
Balanced into three teams as they arrived.
Your phone
Team Otters
A replay with a sample class of 24. In your classroom, pupils join on their own phones with a code.
Spreadsheets and worksheets
Real spreadsheets. The worksheets you already have.
A spreadsheet with SUM, IF, VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH and pivot tables, marked from the pupil's own sheet. Or upload a PDF worksheet, draw the answer boxes on it, and pupils fill it in on any device.
- Marked by formulaAsk for an answer worked out with a formula, so a number typed in by hand does not count.
- Excel and CSVBring sheets in from Excel or CSV and take them back out again.
- PDF worksheetsPupils fill in your existing worksheets online and download them with their answers written on.
Spreadsheet · Plan the class trip
Work out the total in B5, then the cost per pupil in B6.
Use formulas: try =SUM(B2:B4). Change a cost and watch everything follow.
| A | B | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Class trip | Cost |
| 2 | Coach hire | |
| 3 | Museum entry | |
| 4 | Packed lunches | |
| 5 | Total | |
| 6 | Per pupil (30) |
Running on Montessa's own spreadsheet engine in your browser. The same code marks the sheet on the server.
Voice and ink
For hands that write and voices that read.
A pen made for a stylus, letter tracing for the youngest, and reading practice that listens to a child read and marks it word by word.
- Reading practiceChildren read aloud and see which words they got, with dictation, speaking and sound-match activities alongside.
- Ink and notebooksPressure, pencil, marker and highlighter, palm rejection, shape snapping, working-out paper and a page-turning notebook.
- Read aloudAny page can be read aloud, for early readers and for anyone who learns better by listening.
Reading practice · Reception and Year 1
Read this sentence out loud.
Thelittleredhenfoundagrainofwheatinthefarmyard.
A replay of a sample attempt. In a lesson, the child reads into the microphone and is marked word by word.
Lesson library
Ready-made lessons, from first sounds to the trial balance.
Start from a finished lesson for early years, primary or secondary, try it as a pupil would, then make it yours. Every one is built from the same blocks you build with.
Filter by stage and subject
Find a lesson by age, subject or search, with what each one shows off on its card.
Preview and try
Work through a lesson as a pupil before you use it with a class.
Yours to change
Every lesson copies into your school, ready to edit, teach or set.
Early years
Ages 0–5 · 5 lessons
- Early maths
Shapes and colours all around us
Ages 2–4 20 min
- Tap-to-explore picture
- Listen and tap
- Finger tracing
- Early maths
Counting 1 to 10 on the farm
Ages 3–5 25 min
- Counting song video
- Picture to count
- Number tracing
- Phonics
First sounds: s, a, t, p
Ages 4–5 25 min
- Sound-to-picture matching
- Letter tracing
- Read aloud, marked word by word
- Understanding the world
My body and my five senses
Ages 3–5 25 min
- Label the diagram
- Song video
- Sorting by touch
Primary
Ages 5–11 · 5 lessons
- Mathematics
Fractions: halves, quarters and eighths
Year 3–4 · Ages 7–9 60 min
- Shade and place fractions, marked at once
- Chapters that unlock in order
- Spreadsheet marked automatically
- Science
The water cycle
Year 4–5 · Ages 8–10 60 min
- Explorable diagram
- Label the diagram
- Real investigation data
- Science
Our solar system
Year 5 · Ages 9–10 60 min
- Picture banner
- Data table and chart
- Spreadsheet with formulas
- English
Persuasive writing: Save our park
Year 5–6 · Ages 9–11 75 min
- Annotated poster
- Read aloud, marked word by word
- Exercise-book page to write on
Secondary
Ages 11–18 · 10 lessons
- Biology
Cell structure: animal and plant cells
Year 7–9 · Ages 11–14 90 min
- Two explorable cells
- Compare slider
- Magnification spreadsheet
- Biology
The heart and circulation
Year 10–11 · Ages 14–16 100 min
- Explorable heart diagram
- 10-step blood flow sequence
- Class data spreadsheet with averages
- Chemistry
Atomic structure and the periodic table
Year 9–11 · Ages 13–16 100 min
- Explorable atom model
- Particle-count spreadsheet
- Timeline of discovery
- Physics
Forces and motion: Newton's laws
Year 10–11 · Ages 14–16 100 min
- Label the force arrows
- Graph paper for plotting
- Motion spreadsheet
Pricing
Interactive Studio is included from the Essential plan.
Montessa is priced per student, with every product on your plan included. Parents, guardians and staff never cost extra.
Recent updates to Interactive Studio
Maths you can touch
Fraction models, number lines, area grids, clocks and coordinate grids, drawn from numbers. Pupils shade, place, set and plot on them and are marked at once.
A library of ready-made lessons
Finished lessons from early years to secondary, with stage, subject and search filters and a page to try each one as a pupil would.
Spreadsheets and PDF worksheets
A spreadsheet with formulas and pivot tables that marks answers from the pupil's own sheet, and PDF worksheets pupils fill in online.
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