If you're reading this sentence, it probably means that you hate Sparx.

Or at least, mildly dislike it.

If you don't, then I have no words.

Sparx Maths is everyone's biggest source of disappointment in life, as endless bookwork checks bombard you about questions which have come up multiple times - yet you don't know the answer to them. If you currently don't have to do Sparx, you are one of the very lucky few who are spared from weeks upon weeks of perpetual torture. Sparx is no laughing matter.

In 2023 alone, Sparx Maths was causing 16% of all young peoples' mental health problems, from depression to anxiety. It was the leading driver of antisocial behaviour and the sole reason that Covid-19 died out so much - people were isolated from each other, trapped in a world of Sparx Maths, where the limits of human endurance were tested to its limits.

It is difficult to comprehend that nobody has ever had so much burning passion to rage on 6 sets of questions that demand you to write your answers down, yet Sparx Maths has achieved exactly that. Its depressing user interface and uninspiring dismal blue theme certainly doesn't attract its users to do the homework set. Rather, people who use Sparx often have it open on one tab whilst doing something else on the other (such as playing games). This lack of motivation to do maths homework is very understandable, not just because it's maths, but because Sparx's approach to it is so boring that most people end up not caring whether they complete it or not. Unless they have to attend an afterschool detention if they do so (that's unlucky).

All learning websites seem to have some form of competition to make it more exciting and to encourage its users to learn more. However, Sparx Maths seems to do the opposite - the XP and levelling system makes no sense at all, because there are no rewards for getting to the next level. When you 'level up', you now know that even more of your time has been wasted by a senseless piece of homework which you never sought out to complete for your future job application anyways.

Your future job application might say 'What experience of social skills do you have?' but based off Sparx Maths, your only answer would be 'Sitting in my room doing useless equations whilst I could have been doing something productive with my time', which seems like an odd way to answer that question. There is a 99.9% chance that Sparx Maths will not be part of your later life, so why make it part of your life now?

I guess teachers don't truly understand, do they? They have never done a single set of Sparx Maths questions in their entire lives (well, most of them). Not blaming the teachers here, but Sparx is clearly not the right option when it comes to having an educational maths website for homework to be set on. The reviews say it all. As of 2024, Sparx Maths had a 1.7 star Rating on Google; this is appalling, absolutely horrendous, considering that the lowest you can rate something on Google is 1 star. Nearly 95% of all reviews were 2 or 1 stars - only a few people put higher than that. I don't know what they were thinking at the time, but I think they may regret that decision now.

Sparx Maths has clearly been the worst thing in many people's lives, receiving almost unanimous negative feedback from both online and in real life. People have raised their concerns, and time and time again, Sparx has ignored them. This mundane, ragebaiting website seems to have nothing good to offer to anyone but money for those who work for Sparx. Schools may not truly understand the weight of this burden, but the students being tortured really do.

So, the question is: do you hate Sparx?

Written by Creator J on

08/11/2025