MA Standards vs Blume Method
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MA Standards
Access Massachusetts curriculum frameworks and explore learning standards. Find resources like student work, assessment items, and definitions. Plan lessons with a mapping feature showing standard relationships.
- Standards Navigator
- Explore learning standards
- Related resources (work, assessments, definitions)
- Mapping feature for standard relationships
- Curriculum frameworks access
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Use the MA Standards app to access the Standards Navigator and explore the learning standards in the Massachusetts curriculum frameworks. These standards set expectations for what all students should know and be able to do by the end of each school year. Educators, students, families, and others can select a standard and find related resources such as student work exemplars, assessment items, quick reference guides, and key definitions. The mapping feature can help educators plan by showing how standards relate to each other both within and across grades.
Blume Method
This app provides training and tools to help school districts write IEPs that are consistent, objective, and legally sound. It aims to standardize the IEP writing process for educators.
- IEP writing training
- Objective IEP development
- Defensible IEP documentation
- District-wide consistency
- IEP tools
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The Blume Method mobile app helps make your district's IEP writing consistent, objective and defensible with The Blume Method training & tools.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Blume Method at 5.0 against MA Standards's 3.6. MA Standards's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Blume Method holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MA Standards has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | MA Standards | Blume Method |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Massachusetts Executive Office of Education | BlumeIEP LLC |
Customer experience
MA Standards
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In-app purchases
MA Standards
No in-app purchases
Blume Method
No in-app purchases
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