Fantastic Aid for Teaching Fractions

As an educator, technologist, and former educational software designer I know good instructional software when I see it and Motion Math is the real deal. Fractions are a difficult concept for kids (and even some adults) to comprehend, and the simple, intuitive interface of MM coupled with an engaging and challenging game format, multiple levels of play, and three levels of difficulty makes this program a wonderful addition to the math classroom, for home schooling, or simply for an engaging yet educational game for the kids in your household. Both proper and improper fractions in all of their forms, including decimals and pie charts representations, are there for children to discover equivalencies. This is not an easy task for the beginning math student.

At the harder levels MM is a great game for adults who want to keep their minds sharp.

Both audiences will appreciate the smooth graphics and clever sound effects. You can track your high scores, challenging yourself to improve, or enabling friendly competition between players.

As an educator and an all girls school, I am aware of some research that indicates that the spatial reasoning of adolescent girls lags slight behind that of boys. MM may be a useful way to address this. Perhaps the developers will look into this area.

I look forward to other releases from this group. I think they have a bright future ahead of them in the area of educational gaming.

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