This math education app is designed to help young students improve their math skills by enjoying a constructive, supportive, interactive, fun-filled environment. Math Puppy is designed with 3 difficulty levels and 5 game types that provide complete coverage of basic math skills for preschool, elementary school, grade school and more.
Type of Material:
Simulation
Recommended Uses:
This app can be used to support a variety of learning modes such as homework, individual, or self-paced.
This app could be used to target a particular concept in-class, for individual work or review, or self-paced study.
Technical Requirements:
Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Math Puppy is an app that young children can build their math skills.
Target Student Population:
Grade School, Middle School
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
There are two game types available to play--Bingo and Challenge. There is a full-featured animated math calculator. There are five game modes and three well-balanced difficulty levels from beginner to advanced. Users enter there name at the beginning to personalize the game.
Concerns:
Ads do pop up while using the free version asking about buying the full version. Also there are colorful buttons and items that are really ads at the bottom of the math game page. Both of these things are a distraction to young learners and could take from the focus of the game to an online website in seconds.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
Students are motivated to play by the game's structure. The purpose of the game is to fill a complete row or column with math puppies and win a Bingo. Collect math puppies by matching the correct answer to the math question. Math Challenge - The challenge is to calculate the correct answer and tap it. Answer 5 questions correctly in order to pass the next level. Complete all levels to become a math expert. There is a full-featured animated math calculator. There are five game modes--Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, All in One--that offer a sequence or range of choices for the player. The repetition and sequencing of tasks increases the potential for student and conceptual understanding.
Concerns:
None.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
This app is very engaging with cute cartoon puppies, color, and sound for young students. When the app is first opened the words For Parents is in the upper left corner. If users click on it, they will find how information on how to play and troubleshooting issues with the game, including how to turn off the ads for the in-app purchases.
Teachers and parents can restrict in-app purchases by disabling them on this device.
Concerns:
The app is free, but certain in-game items may require payment. The app may include advertising for TabTale and certain third parties which will redirect users to their sites, apps, or other third party sites.
Creative Commons:
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