Leap Frog, creator of the Fly Pen, knows what it takes to facilitate learning. The company believes that if a product doesn’t engage kids within seven seconds, that the student will never connect with the product. That’s a big goal, but the Fly Fusion achieves it well. There are a number of factors that make this product great for assisting students in their studies. We’ll take a look at a few of them.

Firstly, the Fly Fusion is entertaining and kids think it’s cool. The pen understands what kids write on the grid paper and provides comments, definitions and step-by-step homework advice. Now that’s not your average pen! There are several games made specifically for the pen that 8-13 year-old students love, but the pen also has neat educational tools like Spanish translation, math homework help and subject quizzes pulled from the leading textbooks. The basic idea behind this product is that if students have a good time using the pen to study, they’ll spend more time working on homework.

One of the most helpful features of the Fly Pen is its math homework help tool and calculator. Students can simply draws a calculator on the Fly Paper and the pen figures it out like a regular calculator. Pretty cool, but the pen does a lot more than that. If a student jots down a math problem (everything from a simple division problem to a complex linear equation), the pen actually walks the pupil step-by-step through the procedure. As you can see, rather than just give the student a quick answer, the pen helps them learn to figure it out on their own.

Obviously, the Fly Fusion is much more than a neat gadget with limited educational features. It’s really a powerful learning tool that enables students to excel and look cool at the same time. And the instructive benefits don’t stop with mathematics. This product also assists students with foreign languages, writing assignments, test review and organization. Because it’s so entertaining to use all of the pen’s features, you’ll find that kids spend a lot more time studying.