Motion Math Blog

Do you teach elementary school students in San Francisco? We’d like to visit your classroom to test our latest math games – we’ll bring the iPads and our latest prototype.

Very exciting news: today GameDesk has published the first experimental research on iPad learning. Professor Michelle Riconscente, an expert in educational technology and assessment at USC, studied 122 5th graders playing our iPad game Motion Math HD.

There’s an excellent review of Carol Dweck’s work on mindset and related neuroscience research in this month’s Wired. Essentially, people who believe more in their ability to grow mentally (a growth mindset) learn more from mistakes that those who have a static view of their own intelligence (a fixed mindset).

One of 8 Noteworthy Apps for Kids – http://nyti.ms/mmathzoom Our number line is compared to Silly Putty – that’s a high standard for fun! Much appreciated.

Know any brilliant engineers? Motion Math is looking to hire developers to help us create more fun learning games! Help us and we’ll pay you π * $1000 – that’s right: $3,141.59.

We are excited to announce the release of our next game: Motion Math Zoom! Players use the most interactive number line ever made to experience numbers at different magnitudes (and place values) from dinosaurs in the thousands down to amoebas in the thousandths.

Three recent academic studies gave us much inspiration and confidence that our number sense game suite is targeting a super-crucial area of early mental development. These studies come from Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Missouri.

Are you an educator in Los Angeles who works with elementary school students? We’re looking to partner with a 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom or camp in LA over the next two months for an efficacy study on our fractions iPad game.

Are you an elementary school teacher in the Bay Area? Or do you run an after-school program? We’d like to visit your school for an hour or two and show you and your students our new games.

We are excited and honored to announce that Motion Math has raised an initial round of seed capital from a world-class group of investors: Mitch Kapor, Mike Wood, Dave McClure and Enrique Allen at 500 Startups, Reece Duca, Nancy Blachman, Dorothy Price Hill, Chris Yeh, and David W. Phillips. We’re also supported by a grant from the Noyce Foundation.