Motion Math Blog

The new iOS 6 was released today, and there’s one new feature that parents and teachers will like in particular: Guided Access. Guided Access allows you to temporarily disable the home button and certain parts of the iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch screen. So you can set up your child with a fun Motion Math [...]

Today we’ve launched our new game Motion Math: Hungry Guppy. It’s our first game for 3- to 7-years olds and uses dots to teach numbers and addition. You can read about the game’s learning goals and features here and download it on the App Store. In this post we want to share how we created Hungry Guppy and some of the special design challenges we faced making an app for younger kids.

We’re excited to celebrate the availability of Motion Math’s Pro editions with this week’s Math Teachers at Play blog carnival, a monthly round-up of math-related blogs.

This month, Motion Math is hosting the Math Teachers at Play (MTaP) blog carnival – submissions are due THIS FRIDAY (8/10) – leave a comment with a link to the post you want to submit.

We’ve heard from teachers that they’d prefer to have our games without In-App Purchase so they can use Apple’s Volume Purchase Program, and get the Program’s 50% discount. We’ve also heard from a few reviewers who prefer not to deal with In-App Purchase. So today we’re happy to announce that for back-to-school we’ve released our Pro Suite – pay-to-download, fully-unlocked versions of all our games.

Flying multiplication adventure, Motion Math: Wings, is selected to Moms With Apps’ banner program. Our games are made possible with input and feedback from kids, parents and teachers (join our Beta Test program or Parent Advisor program!)

Number two on Andy Grossman’s joyful list: good video games improve problem-solving skills.

We’ve been celebrating 1,000,000 downloads on the Motion Math Facebook page with a fun contest! Prizes include a full version of the new flying multiplication adventure, Motion Math: Wings and an iPod touch with all four of our learning games.

Researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University’s Robert Siegler discovered that the understanding of fractions and division is a major source of the achievement gap between U.S. students and other countries, including China, Japan, Finland and others.

Enjoy these math activities with the whole family – they include variations for older and younger players so everyone gets appropriately challenged. These activities span several core number sense concepts and can help kids stay sharp over the summer.