How Can Teachers Use It?
Use Kids Numbers and Math to supplement basic math lessons. There are a lot of skills to practice on this app, but it doesn't go into depth on any of them, or progress much in difficulty. As a result, its usefulness in the classroom is limited to simple, fun practice. Teachers may want to recommend this app to parents as a good one to install on their Android-based phone or Kindle Fire for kids to practice math at home or during free time in the car.
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What's It Like?
Kids Numbers and Math is a basic math practice app that requires kids to solve problems using both visual clues and numbers with multiple gameplay options. Eight main games help kids learn fundamental math skills such as counting, matching, number recognition, addition, and subtraction.
One game displays addition and subtraction problems both numerically as well as in pictures, which allows young kids who are still learning numbers to solve the problems by counting the images and practice number recognition. For example, after kids watch nine colorful apples line up, they hear a chomping sound and one appears bitten to the core. The subtraction problem "9 - 1 =" appears over the line of apples. The narrator says: "Find the solution."
A matching game asks kids to remember the numbers hidden under clouds; if they get a match, lightning strikes and those clouds disappear. As a bonus, kids can also learn to count in five different languages with this app. One more difficult game only includes numeric digits and requires kids to know addition and subtraction signs and solve simple two-step problems (such as 3-2+3=).
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Is It Good For Learning?
These focused games provide a good amount of challenge and encouragement to support kids as they solve problems. The settings options allow teachers to customize activities to match kids' learning needs (including turning off the somewhat distracting "shake" feature). Kids have a lot of choices when it comes to which activities they want to try and come back to, and how long they'd like to stay on each one. More data on players' progress during gameplay (number of problems solved and answered correctly) would boost learning and provide kids with immediate feedback. There is a “Parent Center” that can be used to view students' progress and time played. To use that, teachers must sign up for that via email and create user accounts for individual students.
Kids Numbers and Math has bright colors, familiar images, and a pleasant narrated voice, all of which make this app very appealing for pre-K and kindergarten students. Overall, this is focused, fun math practice to help kids master basic math skills in low-stress ways.
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Eight activities to play, all including colorful graphics and verbal instructions.
Count the flowers and match the correct number.
Pick the balloon with the highest number.
Some games include numbers-only problems.
Rewards are minimal -- just simple images of items like fruit or lemonade that appear on the screen.
