Our 4 year old has an uncanny love for and ability in math. We love this app and play it together almost daily. He loves building the rockets, too. I like all the options for the launch challenge. He plays the easy levels and watches me solve the more advanced ones. We both wish for negative numbers, though. Maybe in an update? Great game - Thank you!
I'm a kid and I play it all the time it's so fun! You get to make rockets and launch them with all the money you earn from doing math problems. On the math problems you can choose hard medium or easy. The higher levels you get more money and the lower levels you get less money, but it's absolutley fair. Now the math probles are adding, subtracting, multiplying, and division. If you get all the ten problems right on any off them you get to spin the bonus wheel which is fun! I think it's is a wonderful great game adults and kids can play! It also gets me warmed up for math and it can also help beginners with math! I think rocket math is a very fun game everyone should play!
My 7 year old son wants to play this nonstop! It is very entertaining and a great way to do math at the same time. The only negative is that when he works on shapes it is difficult for him to have to read the ever changing directives while he is trying to tap the correct shapes. The directions to each game are sometimes written before the game actually begins, and sometimes it pops up on the screen after the game has begun, making him miss scoring opportunities. Other than that, I can hardly get him off my iPad for playing it so much! Still worth a 5 star rating.
Beautiful graphics. You do math to earn money to outfit your rocket- and then you use your rocket for math missions. The more power that you put on your rocket the higher you go and the more time you get for your mission. Well done. My daughter is addicted and begging to do more math.
I downloaded Rocket Math for an elementary math methods class at my college, and it was my favorite of all the apps I looked at. For such a low price of $0.99, it is packed full of different missions and activities for students to do! This app could be used with students from around age 5 or 6 to even age 12. This customizability is something that I really like about Rocket Math. The games are fun and engaging while still educational. Also, the game is fast-paced, but it is not stressful to play. I also like how you can repeat each level multiple times to try for a better score, because it encourages and rewards improvement in an appropriate way.
Although I would definitely recommend this app to other teachers, there are a few modifications that I would suggest. First, there needs to be a tutorial of some sort, because it is confusing to know what to do when you open the app for the first time. It would also be helpful to include steps on how to build a rocket and what the pieces are on the build-a-rocket screen. I had to resort to using the sample rocket, because I did not know that you needed to add those pieces to the rocket to make it run.
This is as close to playing video games as our family comes, and my seven year-old loves the app. The creators were smart, allowing players to design their rockets and add on pieces as they win levels. There are multiple levels, so the game can keep changing even though the premise is the same - click as many of the right answers as possible while flying through space, and they range from early elementary basics to more challenging math, so the app grows with my son's learning. Very happy that the creators really understand kids.
My eight year old was recently skipped a grade and we were told that though her math skills were great her speed will need to pick up.
This is where this app comes in; it is just outstanding for training a young mind for speed math.
I can see were before she would have to do the multiplication in her head, slowly, before giving you the answer.
Now her confidence has picked up and she will shout it out as quickly as possible, that is what we specifically wanted.
On top of that the game is just plain silly, scoring more for right answers allowing her to build outrageous rockets which drive her to play (learn) more.
Very nice, will recommend without hesitation.
This is a fantastic multi level educational app. Can choose many different levels of math games for earning money to buy rocket parts and once you launch into space. Also nice propulsion etc physics as rocket flight distance, direction, duration responds to placement and number rockets, boosters, fins, etc. Very deeply thought out app. Thank you!
I'm a third grade teacher and had my students use this app (along with the many other awesome Dan Russel-Pinson apps) to extend their learning in math. I love how you can have students practice their basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts, and can even do the extended 2 by 2 facts while writing on the pad to help you figure problems out! I also love the ability to choose different "missions" to practice different areas of math varying in level of difficulty.
The only thing that could make this better has to do with how students are able to solve the different missions when their rocket is in space and they need to click on the different stars for correct answers. I have noticed several students just quickly tapping every number, shape etc. in sight rather than carefully clicking the correct answers. I thought when they clicked wrong answers their rocket would descend more quickly than when you answer only correctly, however when I tried it I was able to get a gold medal on counting by 10s even though I clicked every star in sight. So the one thing that would make this app perfect is to make the rocket descend back to earth more quickly whenever a student clicks a wrong answer, and maybe after three wrong answers descend to earth until the next launch.
If your child is very self motivated to learn and math comes pretty easily to them, this app is fun and may have some value. The app only tells you a single score - it does not display individual scores for right, wrong, and total points possible. I don't know if the single score is just the number of right answers or a composite of right minus wrong - i haven't tested this). Too easy for a child to go through the motions without learning much. With points possible and separate scores for right and wrong answers, you would be in a much better position to guide your childs use of the application.
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