Felt Board vs Moose Math

Design scenes, dress up characters and let your imagination soar as you invent your own stories with Felt Board. Especially designed for imaginative play, storytelling and learning, Felt Board is perfect for children, families, teachers and therapists. Create characters by selecting skin color, hair and facial features. Choose from a wide variety of costumes, settings and props for hours of magical make believe play. And because it is an app, the pieces will never get lost. Recently updated with all new images, Felt Board now also includes a gallery to save and edit Felt Board designs.

 Whether used by children as a creative play set, or by adults as a storytelling resource and teaching aid, Felt Board offers a variety of benefits for children, including: - A simple user interface that allows independent exploration - A wide variety of characters and settings to encourage creativity and imaginative play - Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination skills are developed while dragging, placing and pinching objects to scale - Colorful shapes, Letters and Numbers are included as an educational resource - Pattern block shapes that can be rotated to make geometric designs - Varied facial expressions to discuss emotions of characters - Community helpers characters and vehicles - Pieces for popular preschool and nursery songs, stories and rhymes including 5 Little Monkeys, Old MacDonald, Itsy Bitsy Spider, 3 Billy Goats Gruff and more Winner Best Kids Toy App, 2012 Best App Ever Awards

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What reviewers are saying: 

“One of my favorite apps for early learning.” – Childcareland 

“The kindergarten teacher in me is doing cartwheels and flips over my latest app find: Felt Board by Software Smoothie.” – The Orange County Register, OC Moms 

“We love the open-ended nature of this app with plenty of backgrounds to keep your child engaged.” – Kindertown

 “Felt Board is a lovely app for iPad, a charming simulated rendition of a traditional felt board…” – Giggle Apps 

“LOVE, love, love this app from Software Smoothie!” – The iPhone Mom 

“This app has a variety of benefits for children with Special Needs.” – Somewhere Over the Spectrum 

“Little kids and big kids alike will love this app..” – Four Monkeys 4 Me 

“The sky’s the limit with this brilliant app.” – Storytiming Flannel Friday 

“I see all sorts of uses for this app – It’s great for fine motor practice, imaginary play, as a stimulus speech practice and for storytelling, but above all it is fun and creative.” – The iMum 

“An excellent app to share with your loved ones…” – Apps 4 Moms 

“A rare gem in a sea of fool’s gold…” – Pre-K Pages

Moose Math engages kids in a mathematical adventure and teaches counting, addition, subtraction, sorting, geometry and more. While playing 5 multi-level activities in the Moose Juice Store, Puck’s Pet Shop and Lost & Found, kids can earn rewards to help build their own city and decorate buildings. Moose Math introduces a new whimsical group of Duck Duck Moose characters, The Dust Funnies, who help with mastering math skills. Moose Math is aligned with Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten and 1st Grade and includes a Report Card section where parents and teachers can monitor progress and find additional skill-building activities. AGES: 3-7. CATEGORY: Curriculum ACTIVITIES Moose Math features 5 engaging math activities: 1) MOOSE JUICE: Make smoothies while practicing counting, addition and subtraction 2) PAINT PET: Match the pets by counting the number of dots 3) PET BINGO: Solve addition, subtraction and counting problems to get BINGO 4) LOST & FOUND: Learn and sort through shapes and colors 5) DOT TO DOT: Help the Dust Funny find his way home by joining the dots SKILLS Kids will learn the following math skills based on Common Core State Standards: NUMBERS: -  Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities -  Solve word problems and algebraic thinking -  Practice number pattern recognition COUNTING: -  Count by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s -  Master counting to 100 ADDITION & SUBTRACTION: -  Add and subtract by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s -  Add and subtract up to 20 -  Learn to add and subtract with numbers, dice and rekenrek racks GEOMETRY: -  Master geometry at Kindergarten and First Grade levels -  Learn to identify and recognize shapes MEASUREMENT: -  Understand and compare lengths PARENT REPORTING: Includes a Report Card section where parents and teachers can monitor progress for each child and learn about new skill-building activities. DEVELOPED WITH EDUCATORS: -  Developed in conjunction with Stanford University Educator, Jennifer DiBrienza, PhD in -   Early Elementary Education and former NYC public school teacher (K-Grade 2) COMMON CORE STANDARDS: K.CC.1, K.CC.2, K.CC.4, K.CC.6, K.OA.1, K.OA.2, K.OA.5, K.MD.2, K.MD.3, K.G.2, K.G.3, K.G.4, 1.OA.1, 1.OA.2, 1.OA.6 ABOUT DUCK DUCK MOOSE (A wholly-owned subsidiary of Khan Academy) Duck Duck Moose, an award-winning creator of educational mobile apps for families, is a passionate team of engineers, artists, designers, and educators. Founded in 2008, the company has created 21 top-selling titles and has received 21 Parents’ Choice Awards, 18 Children’s Technology Review Awards, 12 Tech with Kids’ Best Pick App Awards, and a KAPi award for “Best Children’s App” at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Duck Duck Moose is now part of the Khan Academy family. Like all Khan Academy offerings, all Duck Duck Moose apps are now free, without ads or subscriptions. We rely on our community of volunteers and donors. Get involved today at www.duckduckmoose.com/about. Check out the Khan Academy app to learn and practice all kinds of topics for elementary school through college and beyond. We’d love to hear from you! Visit us at www.duckduckmoose.com or drop us a line at support@duckduckmoose.com.