An island where the math is the game.
Kids from kindergarten to 5th grade walk a cartoon island, and every place on it is a game: a parade that grows by multiplying, golems you break with division, candy bars you pour by the fraction.
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In Critter Parade, the gates change your crowd, and the bigger gate depends on how many friends you already have. With 2, plus seven wins. With 9, times two does. Pick the smaller one and nothing buzzes: a ghost parade marches through the other gate, so you see exactly what it would have made.
Lining up the parade…
These are real gates from the game’s 3rd-grade set, made fresh each time you play. The game’s gates run from counting dots in kindergarten to fractions and decimals in 5th grade.
Division Dunes
A golem marches on the camel pen carrying a number. Throw the crystal that divides it and the golem bursts into exactly that many camels, counted out loud. Throw another factor and the camels come out wrong, then hop back in. A golem that reaches the pen just stomps. Nobody fails out.
Fraction Falls
A customer orders a third of a candy bar and the chalkboard reads 1/3 = ?/6. Stamp sixths onto your stack, then pour them into the mold. Too few and the gap blinks. Too many and the candy spills. Stamped one extra? The beaver will eat it.
“Extras? Feed me”
Multiplication Mesa
Plant the answer. Walk right and the first row of saplings grows; walk down and another equal row snaps in, 4, 8, 12. The right shape blooms with a skip-counting chant. A wrong shape wilts and says its own count, so you just step to fix it.
Science Summit
Walk Drip the water droplet round the water cycle. The sun pool turns it to vapor, the cold cloud gathers it, the peak rains it down and the river carries it home. In 5th grade it becomes Sphere Keeper, following carbon and minerals between the lake, the sky, the rock and the grove.
Kindergarten and 1st grade are voice-first. Every question is spoken, a hand points to what to tap, and answers are pictures and numbers to touch, so a child who can’t read yet can still play. The voice is computer-generated.
The game notices which facts a child misses and brings them back later. And a wrong answer shows its own size, like the ghost parade, the wilting grove and the spilled candy, so a child can see why it missed.
Every zone of the island hides one egg. Learning in that zone hatches it, more learning grows the pet from baby to kid to grown-up, and a grown-up pet becomes a character you can play as. There are twelve. Try one.
Warming the eggs…
Steer a hungry cloud that can only swallow snacks smaller than its number.
Run a beach snack stand: total the order, take the money, count out the change.
Place sprinklers that wash away only the Mud Puddings that fit their rule: even, makes 10, factors of 24.
Shown in the game’s Pretty graphics setting. Tablets start in Fast, which draws less.