Rocket Math

$1.99, iPhone, iPad,

Teaches: math

CTR Rating: 90%

CTR Review

Here's a fun twist on math drills that uses a tried and true metaphor-- rockets, to keep things interesting. You start by building a rocket by dragging and dropping different parts into place. Each part can be resized, and there are plenty of silly parts... like soda cans, to make a pretty weird looking rocket. But each part also costs money, which you earn by solving math fact problems. Content includes 90 rocket parts. You can fly your rocket into outer space, where you can earn more money by touching the answers to 56 types of math problems, ranging from "touch all the numbers less than 100" to "touch the coins to add up to 41 cents". Answers are displayed on stars, coins, clocks, 3D shapes and pizza, and the missions range in difficultly and include numbers, fractions, decimals, counting, telling time, money, patterns, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square roots; and high scores are saved. Weaknesses include a rather complex first menu, with a lot of reading involved in the instructions, but the overall game is easy to pick up and play. The app can store up to five player profiles. For a fun twist on math drills, this fast paced app is a blast.