4 Best Math Assessment Tools For Teachers (2026)

Updated August 2026

Plenty of platforms will give you a bank of ready-made maths questions. Far fewer make it easy to write your own — and that is the thing most teachers actually need, because the question you want to ask is usually tied to what happened in your classroom last week.

That is the lens for this guide: tools where a teacher can author their own equations without resorting to screenshotting them out of a Word document.

What actually matters when choosing a maths assessment tool

Most comparison lists rank these tools on reporting dashboards and question banks. For maths specifically, the ranking that matters is narrower:

• How you enter an equation. A tool with a proper equation editor is in a different league from one where you paste an image of an equation. This is the single biggest time cost.
• What the student can type back. If a student can only pick from multiple choice, you learn less than if they can enter an expression.
• Whether the free tier includes the maths part. Several tools here are free to use generally, but put the maths features behind a subscription. That distinction is easy to miss until you have built half a quiz.
• Whether students need an account. Join-code access removes a lot of friction, especially in younger classes.

The 4 best maths assessment tools for teachers

1. Wayground (formerly Quizizz)

Note the name first. If you are looking for Quizizz, you are looking for Wayground — the platform renamed itself, and quizizz.com now redirects to wayground.com. The mobile app listings have been renamed too. Everything below is the same product.

It remains one of the easiest ways to run a gamified maths quiz. The equation editor lets you toggle between basic formulas, Greek characters and more advanced notation, and it is laid out like a scientific calculator rather than a markup language, which is why non-specialist teachers get on with it.

You can attach audio and images to individual questions, save questions to a bank, and pull in questions written by other teachers. Timing can be applied per question or across the whole quiz.

The practical advantage in a classroom is that students do not need an account: you run a live quiz, students go to the join page, enter the code and a display name, and start. That also means they can answer semi-anonymously, which changes who is willing to attempt a question.

Since the rename the platform has broadened well beyond quizzes — it now markets AI-generated assessments, presentations, videos and flashcards, and states it is used by teachers in 90% of US schools. There is a free tier, with paid plans above it.

2. Microsoft Forms

With a Microsoft 365 subscription, the maths support is genuinely the most automated of the four. You switch on the Math toggle when creating a question, and a calculator-style input appears for entering the equation.

The useful part is what happens next. Per Microsoft’s documentation, once you enter an equation, “Forms will provide you with both correct and incorrect answer options to choose from” — so it generates plausible distractors for you rather than making you invent wrong answers. You can pick individual options or use Add all. Forms will also suggest similar follow-up questions, again with an Add all option.

Writing good multiple-choice distractors is one of the slower parts of setting a maths quiz, so having them proposed is a real time saving — with the caveat that suggested distractors still need a teacher’s eye. Once the quiz is built, you can share it by link, email or QR code.

Note also that forms.microsoft.com now redirects to forms.cloud.microsoft.

3. Google Forms with the Hypatia add-on

Google Forms on its own has no equation support, which historically meant building maths quizzes by creating images of equations and uploading them. The Hypatia add-on removes that step: it works across Google Docs, Forms and Slides and lets you build an equation in a proper editor, then insert it into your form.

The workflow is a little indirect. Install the add-on, open your form, select Hypatia from the add-ons menu, choose Insert/Edit Math, build your equation, then use Copy Link to generate a URL. Back in your question, use the image icon, choose By URL, paste, and insert. Repeat per equation.

Hypatia is covered in more detail, alongside other Slides tools, in our guide to the best Google Slides add-ons for teachers.

4. Pear Assessment (formerly Edulastic)

Another rename to know: Edulastic is now Pear Assessment, part of Pear Deck Learning — edulastic.com redirects there. It sits at the more formal end of this list: standards-aligned assessment with reporting built for tracking mastery over time rather than for a quick end-of-lesson check.

It supports building your own technology-enhanced, standards-aligned assessments, and ships a large library of pre-built assessments — including maths sets at specific grade levels — that you can use as-is or adapt. Its own materials describe creating classroom formative assessments and getting instant data “for free”, with paid school and district plans above that.

Choose this one if you need the data to mean something across a term. For a five-minute check on whether today’s lesson landed, Wayground is less overhead.

What changed since this guide was first published

Assessment tools rename and re-price more often than guides get updated, so here is the delta explicitly:

If you are choosing tools from any list, the quickest sanity check is to open the vendor’s own pricing or Marketplace page before you commit a lesson to it. A guide can be accurate the day it is written and wrong within a year.

Test a tool in ten minutes before you build on it

The expensive mistake is not picking the wrong tool — it is discovering the problem after you have built a whole unit’s worth of assessments in it. This sequence surfaces almost every blocker quickly, and it is worth running on a free trial before any purchase decision reaches your department head.

1. Type your single hardest equation first. Not a sample one — the genuinely awkward one from the topic you are about to teach. A fraction inside an exponent, a piecewise definition, a matrix. Equation editors handle simple algebra equally well and diverge sharply at the top end.
2. Confirm the maths feature is on your plan. Before anything else, check that the maths question type actually appears in your account. Two of the four tools here gate it behind a subscription, and it is invisible rather than locked, so it looks like the feature does not exist.
3. Open it as a student. Use the join link or preview mode on a phone, not just your laptop. Equations that render cleanly on a wide screen sometimes wrap badly on a phone, and a maths question that wraps mid-expression is a maths question that gets answered wrong for the wrong reason.
4. Answer one question incorrectly on purpose. Then look at the report. You are checking whether it tells you what the student got wrong or only that they did — which is the difference between data you can teach from and a score.
5. Try to duplicate and edit the quiz. Most of the value of building assessments digitally is reusing them next year with changed numbers. If duplicating is awkward, you have bought a one-off, not a library.

One more practical note: if a tool simply will not install or load on a school device, that is usually your district’s admin controls rather than a fault with the tool. Testing it on a personal account is the fastest way to tell the two apart before you raise a support ticket.

Frequently asked questions

What happened to Quizizz?

It was renamed. Quizizz is now Wayground, and quizizz.com redirects to wayground.com. The mobile apps were renamed too. Your existing quizzes and account are not affected by the change of name.

Is there a free tool for making maths quizzes?

Yes. Wayground has a free tier that includes its equation editor, and Pear Assessment offers free classroom assessment creation for teachers. The two options that are commonly described as free but are not, for maths specifically, are the Hypatia add-on for Google Forms and the Microsoft Forms maths question type.

Can students type equations as answers, or only pick from options?

It depends on the tool and the question type you choose. Multiple choice is universally supported; richer maths input, where a student enters an expression rather than selecting one, is what the more assessment-focused platforms are built for. If open response matters to you, test that specific question type before building a whole assessment.

Do students need an account to take a quiz?

Not with Wayground — you run a live quiz and students join with a code and a display name, which is why it is popular with younger classes. Tools tied to a school platform generally expect students to be signed in to their school account.

Why can I not see the Math option in Microsoft Forms?

Almost certainly because the account is not on a Microsoft 365 subscription. Microsoft’s documentation states the maths feature is only available with one. It is also worth confirming you are on a current version of Office.