Motion Math Blog

NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman asks “Will human workers become obsolete?” Towards the end of the segment, both Jacob and Gabriel share how Motion Math (and our fun math games) fit into the larger picture for future employment. Developing better math skills will set learners up for success in science, technology, engineering and math fields.

Why is place value so important and so challenging for learners? If students have a weak understanding of place value, a critical concept for all other math concepts, they have a difficult time understanding decimals and may assume the number of digits means that a number is larger. Students find place value challenging because they do not have a deep conceptual understanding of the multiplicative relationships in the base 10 number system.

Do you want to raise a patient problem solver, a learner who can independently formulate questions and determine the information needed to figure out problems?

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Playing fun addition games with your child can deepen his or her relationship with addition and develop fluency with multiple ways of adding, while you spend quality time together!

Do your kids have math phobia? Have you heard them complain “math is hard”? You can use our cool math games to help your child develop math confidence, but what else can you do?

We are excited to announce the release of our next game – Motion Math: Wings! Motion Math: Wings shows multiplication in six different visual forms: rows of dots, clusters of dots, “groups of” dots, a grid, a labelled grid, and symbols (2 x 3). Fun flight animations and sound effects help learners master foundational concepts of multiplication and estimation.

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).