It's a rapping Panda!

As you see here, the students were utterly enthralled by the Hooda Math tutorials.  The students chose the topic, and continued to replay the song until they could sing the words.  Clearly, the rapping panda was motivational, but more than that, the students grasped the vocabulary (numerator, denominator) and were able to repeat the process.

Here you can see the students chose the competitive Hooda Math game and were eager to play against each other.  The students played a variety of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division games all in a matter of minutes.

The final component of Hooda Math is personalization.  Students can choose and create their own characters and themes.  As seen in this video, the students all chose a different game and level, as well as individualizing the characters.