Impressive!
My 4 yr old is attending a Montessori school so I purchased this app for reinforcement learning. He has greatly enjoyed it and, as a parent, I have been pleased with the content. Would love to see them add 11-20 level (up to 30 would be ideal!) as my son has grown bored of just 1-10. He also gets frustrated having to start each level from the beginning if he had to stop a previous session before finishing it. It would be great if the app could remember where he left off.
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Wow, Love it
Great app, kids love it and work well, easy to follow and understand. Also bought 'intro to letters' and love that too!
beautiful but has problems
My 3yo enjoys this, and it's beautiful. The number rods are absolutely wonderful. However, at least on our ipod touch, it has a hard time following her finger movements. When she drags and drops numbers, it doesn't always "stick", and the sandpaper numbers are very difficult to do, even for me and my 8yo; my 3yo finds it extremely frustrating. I'm really hoping for an update that fixes this.
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A little frustrated
Great app. My main frustration is the inability to select the various levels within a lesson. Instead my child must complete all the basic levels before getting to something more challenging. He loses interest on the easy stuff and doesn't get to the more challenging stuff. An update allowing level selection would be fantastic!
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Love this app
I have very high expectations as a teacher and this app is awesome! At first I thought it was just 5 activities, but each one has several levels. My only suggestion is to move the arrow and info buttons to the top corners on the tracing activity. My daughter's hand sometimes drags and accidentally hits the buttons.
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Clean App!
While, I was hesitant to spend $5 on this application, I am very glad I did! Great hands-on activities that build beautifully on each of the Montessori counting concepts. Audio accompanies appropriately, sounds interact subtly along with very pleasing affirmations during simple lessons, so my child feels a strong sense accomplishment while working in this app. "Shake to clean" perfect way to end this session. Kudos Montessorium! Would buy again!
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Just Like School
Minutes after beginning to use this app my 4-year old daughter exclaimed that it was "just like at school mommy!" She has been in Montessori for 2 years now. All the lessons are familiar to her and she enjoys them. I'm knocking off a star because a day later she complained that it's now too easy for her. She still plays with it, but an update with higher numbers would make this app more worth the high price. Otherwise I'd only recommend it for 2-3 year olds.
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One of the better math programs. Great for 3-4 year olds
This program is designed well. My child picked up on it instantly. The teaching method is true to the Montessori approach. I wish there was more drills available, especially for $4.99. That would have given it 5 stars.
Just like the works at school
My 4 year old loves this app. The tasks replicate what Montessori students do in the classroom so this app is a great educational supplement. Though we have had some trouble with it being slow, we've not had any of the glitches mentioned in other reviews.
Nice app for Montessorians!
I will say that I also believe these Montessorium,LLC apps are overpriced, or should do more. But I am very impressed at how consistent these activities are to the real-life works. They move from concrete to abstract, just as in the classroom. Very easy to use for little fingers (except for dragging to target, see comment below). Love the variety for my rising preK, and review for my K. My suggestions that I am sure you are capable of: need teens works, not just 1-10. Create different levels for patterning. Where are the bead chains? Please add these. The dragging an object tasks are very particular for little fingers.
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