What it is and what you do with it: a racing game with extra educational activities.

Create and customize your car and race it around a city track. Collect coins to buy extra parts and accessories for the car.

Educational activities (during obligatory race pit-stops) include: number identification, counting and enumeration, number comparisons, simple addition and subtraction, number sequencing.

What we liked: the concept. Variety of car customization options. Reward/motivation system with coins, extra parts and trophies. Narration and spoken instructions. Sounds and sound backgrounds. Original Team Umizoomi artwork. Multiple player accounts. Overall quality of the app.

What we didn't like: the math activities are very basic and offer little variety. The 'driving experience' could be better (you just jump from lane to lane to steer the car). Only one track to race on.

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What it is and what you do with it: a racing game with extra educational activities.

Create and customize your car and race it around a city track. Collect coins to buy extra parts and accessories for the car.

Educational activities (during obligatory race pit-stops) include: number identification, counting and enumeration, number comparisons, simple addition and subtraction, number sequencing.

What we liked: the concept. Variety of car customization options. Reward/motivation system with coins, extra parts and trophies. Narration and spoken instructions. Sounds and sound backgrounds. Original Team Umizoomi artwork. Multiple player accounts. Overall quality of the app.

What we didn't like: the math activities are very basic and offer little variety. The 'driving experience' could be better (you just jump from lane to lane to steer the car). Only one track to race on.

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What it is and what you do with it: a set of symmetrical puzzles.

2 types of puzzles: Reflective Symmetry and Rotational Symmetry + Free Play/practice mode. 3 difficulty levels.

Drag the counters to complete symmetrical patterns.

What we liked: the concept. Excellent educational value (good for spatial reasoning, problem solving and visualization). 3 difficulty levels with increasing complexity. Ease of use. The hints and 'show me' features. 8 language versions.

What we didn't like: we missed some sort of rewards/motivational system.

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What it is and what you do with it: a puzzle game covering a wide range of fraction concepts (partitioning, ordering, notation etc). 60 levels.

Solve puzzles/problems by slicing ice and lava blocks to clear the mammoth's path.

What we liked: the concept. Broad range of early math concepts covered. Excellent educational value. Interactive 'hints' feature. Humor and fun factor. Ease of use. No distracting elements. Overall quality of the app.

What we didn't like: we just wish there were more levels to play!

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What it is and what you do with it: a puzzle game covering a wide range of fraction concepts (partitioning, ordering, notation etc). 60 levels.

Solve puzzles/problems by slicing ice and lava blocks to clear the mammoth's path.

What we liked: the concept. Broad range of early math concepts covered. Excellent educational value. Interactive 'hints' feature. Humor and fun factor. Ease of use. No distracting elements. Overall quality of the app.

What we didn't like: we just wish there were more levels to play!

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What it is and what you do with it: A game for math practice (addition, subtraction,multiplication, division). 4 levels of challenge. 16 different areas with 10 levels each.

Touch two or more matching tiles representing the same number (e.g. touch '3-1' and '2') to make them disappear. Complete all tiles to finish a level. Finish 5 levels in a row to get a reward.

What we liked: the concept (combining gameplay and math practice). Great educational value. Wide range of levels and challenges. Multiple player accounts. Ease of use (including simple tutorials).

What we didn't like: the rewards (simple stickers) may not provide enough motivation for older kids.

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What it is/what you do with it: a fast-paced Ninja themed game for improving basic math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, sequences and shapes).

Solve math problems to complete the levels (e.g. calculate addition problems and feed the correct number of bananas to the Monkey).

What we liked: the concept. The story and gameplay keep kids focused on solving math problems to complete the game. Great artwork. Humor and fun factor. Narration and spoken instructions. Multiple difficulty levels. Easy game controls. Overall quality of the app.

What we didn't like: requires good hand-eye coordination, when the math problems may not be enough challenging for the upper age range.

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What it is/what you do with it: a pack of activities (about 11 different activities) for developing and strengthening early math skills. 3 difficulty levels (easy: two digit addition and subtraction, ordering of numbers; medium: odd and even numbers, number sequencing; hard: more difficult subtraction, problem solving tasks and multiplication).

What we liked: the concept. Spoken instructions. Ease of use. Simple graphics and animations. No distracting elements. Progress tracking feature.

What we didn't like: there is no option to choose a particular activity or group of activities. The activities can get a bit repetitive after some time (we wish there was more variety). No clues for more difficult problems (we recommend parental assistance). The rewards system may not be motivating enough for the target age group.

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What it is/what you do with it: a simple game for time tables practice (from 1x to 12x). 3 scenes/themes, 2 difficulty levels.

Answer as many times tables questions as you can in the shortest time to win the race.

What we liked: the concept. 3 scenes. Humor and fun factor. Narration/spoken instructions. Good for fun times tables practice. Overall quality of the app.

What we didn't like: there could be more variety in the gameplay. Ads for other apps from the publisher.

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What it is and what you do with it: a set of activities for multiplication practice. Based on the Montessori method (the stamp game, the bead frame and the magic slate). Includes 3 extra games (Missing Digits, Wiz Quiz and Bubble Game).

Numbers from 0 to 9999.

What we liked: the concept. Good variety of activities and games based on the Montessori method. Fun factor. Ease of use (visual instructions, no distracting elements). Very good educational value. Multiple user accounts. Multiple language versions. Detailed instructions for parents.

What we didn't like: the menu/interface could be more kid-friendly. Not enough assistance for learners: we recommend parental guidance with more complex concepts. No progress tracking/reports.

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