Review by Amanda Bindel, Common Sense Education | Updated April 2013
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Preschool and Kindergarten Splash Math Workbook Games

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Comprehensive early math practice with impressive customization

Subjects & skills
Subjects
  • Math
Skills
  • Character & SEL
Grades This grade range is a recommendation by Common Sense Education and not the developer/publisher.
Pre-K–K
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Platforms:  iPad

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Teachers can create customized profiles for up to four different users.
Kids learn the counting sequence by hearing the numbers counted aloud and tapping each counter as they would a manipulative.
As kids move into addition, they read math sentences and learn the operators.
Each student's profile can be customized with the standards to cover as well as goals.
As a motivator to complete each worksheet, kids get to add an animal or tree to their jungle after each round.

Pros: The 10-question format is age-appropriate for attention span, and the content fully covers kindergarten math curriculum.

Cons: Lacks the opportunity to form and write the numerals and shapes.

Bottom Line: An entire grade level of math curriculum, complete with assessment and reporting, for an affordable price.

How Can I Teach with This Tool?

This is a great tool for independent practice and assessment of math concepts taught in the classroom. You can set up a profile for each student, then create a syllabus of the content you want to assess for that student. It would be a great tool for individual practice or one-on-one instruction or interventions. With the reporting capabilities, you can even customize each child's profile to email progress reports to the parent (or to yourself) weekly.

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Standards:

Splash Math Kindergarten gets kids practicing early math skills such as counting, comparing, adding, and subtracting with interactive practice problems. Kids touch counters on the screen as they would manipulatives for counting or arithmetic, and they hear the numbers counted aloud as well, reinforcing the counting sequence. Kids will move from working with pictures and images to working with numbers and operators as they develop their math skills and learn the language of math.

Each time they complete 10 problems, kids are rewarded with a wild animal or tree to place on a rotating Earth. They can learn more about that tree or animal and make it dance and move. Questions get progressively more challenging, and teachers can customize content and difficulty levels as well as see reports of progress and set daily practice goals.

Kindergartners will enjoy the hippo guide who encourages them when they get correct answers and offers a little guidance when they answer incorrectly on the first try. The subtitle of the app, "Fun Educational Worksheets for Counting Numbers, Addition and Subtraction," is accurate in that kids will find the work (and the reward of adding to their jungle world) fun. However, these aren't anything like traditional worksheets. Each question is on its own screen and is interactive. Kids can touch and hear numbers counted and identified. They are worksheets in the sense that there's no instruction; the app is best used as an assessment tool. The content is rich and fully aligned with Common Core Standards for kindergarten math. The quality and rigor of the questions, the depth and breadth of the curriculum covered, and the customization and reporting make this app well worth the somewhat high price tag.

Overall Rating
Engagement Is the product stimulating, entertaining, and engrossing? Will kids want to return?

Each worksheet is 10 questions long -- short enough for a little one's attention span -- and kids are motivated to finish the questions to add another animal to their world and make it dance.

Pedagogy Is learning content seamlessly baked-in, and do kids build conceptual understanding? Is the product adaptable and empowering? Will skills transfer?

The concepts included are aligned with kindergarten Common Core standards for math, and they advance from pictures and manipulatives to numbers and operators. Feedback isn't always deep enough to boost conceptual understanding.

Support Does the product take into account learners of varying abilities, skill levels, and learning styles? Does it address both struggling and advanced students?

The information to report progress is impressive. Profiles for up to four kids are available, giving each a personalized learning experience.

Common Sense Reviewer
Amanda Bindel Classroom teacher
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Key Standards Supported

Counting And Cardinality

  • K.CC.6

    Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.1

  • K.CC.7

    Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.

  • K.CC.4

    Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

  • K.CC.4.a

    When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

  • K.CC.4.b

    Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

  • K.CC.4.c

    Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.

  • K.CC.1

    Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

  • K.CC.2

    Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).

Geometry

  • K.G.2

    Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.

  • K.G.3

    Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, “flat”) or three- dimensional (“solid”).

Measurement And Data

  • K.MD.3

    Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.3

  • K.MD.1

    Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.

  • K.MD.2

    Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has “more of”/“less of” the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter.

Operations And Algebraic Thinking

  • K.OA.1

    Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings2, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

  • K.OA.2

    Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

  • K.OA.3

    Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).

  • K.OA.4

    For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.

  • K.OA.5

    Fluently add and subtract within 5.

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Colleen M. , Classroom teacher
Classroom teacher
Lakeshore Elementary School
Holland, United States
Very visual, highly engaging math app!
Overall I think that this is a great app. It is a little pricey at $9.99. It does have a lot of content. I liked that students can log in and have access just to what I have given them access to. I like that I get a report of the skills that students have worked on that week. The only drawback is that you have to pay for each grade level. This can be costly if you have students that are behind and ahead of their grade. I love that this app is interactive and highly engaging for students. They are excited to "play" it and I am excited they are loving to practice math! Overall this is a great app if you are willing to pay for it!
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