Kid Awesome Kindergarten Math
© 2014 Kid Awesome
Mix together an action packed cartoon with a math workbook and you get the idea of this well designed app. While there's a few quirks, you get a lot of play value for your $1.99; with some effective, responsive math practice along the way. You start by creating your own main character using menus with adequate gender and ethnic options. Next you're off to the boost machine for a dose of fast-paced math facts problems, with narrated questions like "what number matches the number of oranges" (when shown sets of two types of objects). Content is all multiple choice, and it lines up with a typical Kindergarten math workbook; from counting to shapes. Correct answers earn coins for time with an arcade-style running game where you change lanes to collect more coins. The playful tone is the perfect "sugar" for a dose of math facts. There's not much conceptual value to the math activities... this app doesn't go much further than math facts, and some of the graphics are cluttered. Also, when you reach the end of a level, you don't know if your progress is saved (it is) and we noticed that children are promoted to rate this app. We can guess that they'll give it a good rating, with no prompting required.
$1.99, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch (iOS 6.0 or later)
Teaches: math facts, counting, addition, shapes
CTR Rating: 90%