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Entertaining, colourful, fun and mathematically accurate app. Teach your child the basics of mathematics with this monster-game based app.
Friendly Math Monsters for Kindergarten is more than just a drag & drop math game with cute, interactive characters - it’s a fun and challenging way for kids, ages 6 and under, to learn and play.
Targeting kindergarten and first grade, your math student will explore a rich and vivid monster room setting, engage and interact with colorful and fun monster characters, all while practicing critical early math skills.
* SYLLABUS COVERED *
- Sort
- Count (1 – 15)
- Largest number
- Smallest number
- Equal Number
- Arrange from small to large
- Arrange from large to small
- Position in space
- Patterns
- Similarities
- Differences
- Basic Addition
- Basic Subtraction
- Report tracks games progress and high scores
Teacher Review
Children engage with this app as soon as it is opened: bright colours, attention grabbing sounds and monsters running all over the screen.
Upon opening this app, children are offered 5 choices: report; levels; music; settings and the most obvious, play. When the play button is clicked children are taken to the initial level, “sorting”. This level immediately catches the children’s attention with thirty or forty monsters racing from one side of the screen to the other with children required to sort these monsters based on their colour. After this lesson, children are given between one and three stars as an indication of how successful they have been. They are then taken onto the next level, and the next mathematical skill.
At any point in the lessons, children can select from one of the four options: home; reports; levels and help. The reports feature displays a list of the thirteen skills available on the app alongside the stars gained for each skill, the percentage accuracy and the time taken. Children can normally work out the skill they need to practice by the number of stars shown, however, it might be helpful for an adult to explain this at the start. The percentage accuracy and time taken are really only useful for an adult, but again this can be explained and used as a motivator for the child. This section allows the child to select the skill they wish to practice, again, understanding is shown by the number of starts in each section. The help section repeats the instructions displayed and spoken at the beginning. Occasionally, the written instructions disappear a second before the speaker has finished - it would be nice to see the instructions displayed for a little longer. Finally the home button returns the child to the home page. From here, children must select which level they want to start at rather than the app automatically returning the child to the position they left off or to where they have made mistakes. It would be nice to see such a feature incorporated to allow children to build on the skills they have already mastered. From the homepage, the additional options include music and settings. Music turns on or off the home page music while settings allows adults to contact the developers, rate or share the app, reset the reports or view other apps produced by the developer.
From a mathematical standpoint, this app progresses children through single skills, once step at a time, building on the previous learning whilst retaining a consistent game based environment. Incorrect answers prevent children from accessing the next skill or sub-skill, but are nonetheless recorded on the app. This ensures that children understand and achieve the correct answer, but by recording the incorrect answers and accuracy, children are able to see which skills they need to repeat and continue to practice (as all three stars will not be awarded).
Overall, a very well thought through app, a great deal of attention given to the graphics and game play as well as the mathematics behind the game. Certainly worthy of a 5 star rating.
What's New in Version 2.0
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
*Update app preview screenshot with Educational App Store Rating (5 star review)
*Bug fixes
*ASO
Teacher Review
Children engage with this app as soon as it is opened: bright colours, attention grabbing sounds and monsters running all over the screen.
Upon opening this app, children are offered 5 choices: report; levels; music; settings and the most obvious, play. When the play button is clicked children are taken to the initial level, “sorting”. This level immediately catches the children’s attention with thirty or forty monsters racing from one side of the screen to the other with children required to sort these monsters based on their colour. After this lesson, children are given between one and three stars as an indication of how successful they have been. They are then taken onto the next level, and the next mathematical skill.
At any point in the lessons, children can select from one of the four options: home; reports; levels and help. The reports feature displays a list of the thirteen skills available on the app alongside the stars gained for each skill, the percentage accuracy and the time taken. Children can normally work out the skill they need to practice by the number of stars shown, however, it might be helpful for an adult to explain this at the start. The percentage accuracy and time taken are really only useful for an adult, but again this can be explained and used as a motivator for the child. This section allows the child to select the skill they wish to practice, again, understanding is shown by the number of starts in each section. The help section repeats the instructions displayed and spoken at the beginning. Occasionally, the written instructions disappear a second before the speaker has finished - it would be nice to see the instructions displayed for a little longer. Finally the home button returns the child to the home page. From here, children must select which level they want to start at rather than the app automatically returning the child to the position they left off or to where they have made mistakes. It would be nice to see such a feature incorporated to allow children to build on the skills they have already mastered. From the homepage, the additional options include music and settings. Music turns on or off the home page music while settings allows adults to contact the developers, rate or share the app, reset the reports or view other apps produced by the developer.
From a mathematical standpoint, this app progresses children through single skills, once step at a time, building on the previous learning whilst retaining a consistent game based environment. Incorrect answers prevent children from accessing the next skill or sub-skill, but are nonetheless recorded on the app. This ensures that children understand and achieve the correct answer, but by recording the incorrect answers and accuracy, children are able to see which skills they need to repeat and continue to practice (as all three stars will not be awarded).
Overall, a very well thought through app, a great deal of attention given to the graphics and game play as well as the mathematics behind the game. Certainly worthy of a 5 star rating.
http://www.educationalappstore.com/app/friendly-math-monsters-for-kindergarten
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Name
SMART GECKO SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (PTY) LTD
Information
Categories
Version
2.0
Size
39.6 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated: 4+
Compatibility
iOS 9.0 or later
Devices
iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SEThirdGen, iPad 2 (Wi-Fi), iPad 2 (3G), iPad (3rd Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad (3rd Generation) (4G), iPad (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad (4th Generation) (4G), iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (Wi-Fi), iPad mini (4G), iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad AirFifthGen, iPad AirFifthGenCellular, iPod touch (5th generation), iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)
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