Comparison

Relational Rods+ by mathies vs Math Games

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Relational Rods+ by mathies

This app allows users to visually represent, compare, order, and perform operations on whole numbers, fractions, and decimals using digital rods. It supports exploring various mathematical concepts through interactive manipulation and customization of visual elements.

Highlights
  • Represent whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
  • Compare and order numbers
  • Perform arithmetic operations
  • Explore number patterns
  • Customize rod colors and visibility
  • Annotation tool for explanations
Features
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Represent, compare, order, and operate on whole numbers, fractions or decimals by dragging rods from the tower into the workspace and manipulating them. Relational Rods are rectangles of various lengths where each rod can be evenly subdivided by the smallest square rod. Whole Number Rods are rectangles of lengths 1 to 10 with numeric labels and dashed divisions on each rod. Decimal Rods are rectangles of lengths 0.1 to 1.0 with numeric labels and dashed divisions on each rod. Mathematical Concepts: Create visual representations that help explore mathematical thinking related to: • Exploring number patterns and concepts • Representing, comparing and ordering whole numbers, fractions or decimals • Composing and decomposing numbers • Skip counting forwards and backwards • Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing • Proportional reasoning • Exploring rectangular areas Features: • Show or hide the numerical labels on the rods. • Show or hide the dashed separations on the rods. • Set the colour of individual rods or the colour scheme for the entire set of rods. The “traditional” palette allows the digital tool to more closely match the colours of the concrete manipulatives used in classrooms. • Hide some of the rods in order to work with a restricted set. • Select a rod or set of rods by drawing a marquee around them. Click on a rod to add or remove it from the selection. • Copy selected rods. • Rotate selected rods. • Show or hide the background grid. • Activate or deactivate Snap to Grid mode. When active, rods snap to discrete positions making it easier to align them. Deactivation allows the free placement of rods. • Hide/show the ruler at the bottom of the work space. • Step through a history of your work with the undo/redo buttons. • Communicate your thinking or highlight various features of your representation using the built-in annotation tool.

About

Math Games

Embark on an exciting endless runner adventure where you save friends from Halloween Town by solving math problems. Become a math ninja, test your skills, and unlock new characters and spells. This educational game makes learning addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division fun for all ages.

Highlights
  • Endless runner gameplay
  • Solve math challenges
  • Unlock new characters
  • Level up spells
  • Educational for all grades
  • Save kidnapped friends
Features
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Do you want to play a fun game full of unique mechanics and which will help you boost your math learning fast and easy? Toon Math is here to help you enjoy a cool math experience that will complement the lessons you learn at school. In this game all your friends are kidnapped and they are taken to the Halloween Town. What you have to do now is to make sure that you save them before midnight. Otherwise, they will turn to scarecrows! Become the ultimate math ninja, try to eliminate all the enemies in front of you and take your gameplay experience to the next level! This cool math game is about testing your skills and improving them. The player gets to become the ultimate math ninja and he will continually run and solve various math challenges. It is suitable for any grade, and it’s a wonderful educational game that you do not want to miss. The gameplay is very immersive and it provides you with an extraordinary set of challenges. Moreover, the game tests you how fast you are, since everything will end up before midnight and you have to avoid all of that. Thankfully, since this is a game for almost each grade, each player can play at his own pace. You will be able to unlock new characters and each one of the enemies and characters are very cute. Your team can level up its spells and take things to the next level in no time. This makes the gameplay a lot more impressive and everyone can feel like a math ninja as he/she beat the monster in front of them. Since you have to run all the time, the gameplay is very easy to get into and it’s just a whole lot of fun to explore everything in here. It’s just an incredible opportunity and a very enticing experience that becomes better and more educational as you play to become a math ninja. That’s great for parents and teachers which want to teach how to count, divide, subtract or add numbers. The entire game is very educational and you will be very impressed with the quality and value delivered here. Just give this cool math app a shot right now, download Toon Math and fall in love with math! App subscription: You can subscribe for access to the full list of Math lessons. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. You will be able to do all exercises for the duration of the subscription. Subscription automatically renews for the same price and duration period as the original "one week"/"one month"/"one year" package unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package (weekly, monthly or yearly package). Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. You may cancel a subscription during its free trial period via the subscription setting though your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. Please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4098 for more information. You may turn off the auto-renewal of your subscription via your iTunes Account Settings. However, you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period. Any unused portion of free-trial period, will be forfeited when the user purchases an app subscription. Links to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy can be found below. Privacy Policy: https://www.mathgames.dev/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.mathgames.dev/terms-of-service.html * Prices are equal to the value that "Apple's App Store Pricing Matrix" determines as the equivalent of the subscription price in $ USD

Screenshots

Relational Rods+ by mathies4 screens
Math Games4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Math Games at 4.6 against Relational Rods+ by mathies's 4.0. Math Games also leads on ratings volume (1.4K vs 6) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Relational Rods+ by mathies's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Math Games sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Relational Rods+ by mathies asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Math Games holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Math Games has 1.4K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Relational Rods+ by mathies's written reviews are positive against 83% of Math Games's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Relational Rods+ by mathies ships an update every 2 months, Math Games every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Relational Rods+ by mathies versus Math Games: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRelational Rods+ by mathiesMath Games
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (6 ratings)4.6 (1.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews82.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings61.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB272 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOAMEMath Games

Customer experience

Relational Rods+ by mathies

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Math Games

All ratings1,324 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews233 reviews
Positive82.8%
Neutral8.6%
Negative8.6%

Bugs and requests

Relational Rods+ by mathies

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Math Games

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Ads that won't go away
  • Freezing on death screen
  • Incompatibility with older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More math problem types
  • Additional levels and maps
  • Improved graphics
  • Reduced ads

In-app purchases

None

Relational Rods+ by mathies

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Math Games

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Math$4.997 Days
  • Premium Math$9.991 Month
  • Cool Math Learning Games3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time7
  • 128 Diamonds$4.99
  • Math Games with no Ads$5.99
  • 256 Diamonds$8.99
Show 4 more
  • 4000 Coins$9.99
  • 512 Diamonds$13.99
  • Math Games with all characters$13.99
  • 12000 Coins$29.99

Questions

Is Relational Rods+ by mathies free?
Relational Rods+ by mathies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Math Games free?
Math Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Relational Rods+ by mathies or Math Games?
Math Games is rated higher. Relational Rods+ by mathies averages 4.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Math Games averages 4.6 from 1.4K ratings.
Do Relational Rods+ by mathies or Math Games have ads?
Math Games shows ads; Relational Rods+ by mathies does not.
Which is updated more often, Relational Rods+ by mathies or Math Games?
Relational Rods+ by mathies ships an update every 2 months, and Math Games every 3 weeks. Most recently, Relational Rods+ by mathies was updated on October 5, 2026 and Math Games on October 22, 2026.

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