iTunes App Review: Park Math by Duck Duck Moose

Park Math – by Duck Duck Moose

Updated: October 1, 2010

ABOUT THE APP:

Join Blue Bear and his friends as they play in the park and learn through 7 fun educational activities:

1. SWING: NUMBERS – Count up to 50 as a rabbit swings.
2. SLIDE: ADDITION – Help ducks climb to the top of a slide and learn how to add.
3. SHAPES – Follow the fish as they make different shapes.
4. SEESAW: GREATER THAN / LESS THAN – Balance a seesaw by adding and subtracting mice.
5. APPLE TREE: SUBTRACTION – Learn how to subtract as apples fall from a tree.
6. SANDBOX: PATTERNS – Complete the pattern in a sandbox with the correct toy.
7. BENCH: SORTING – Order the dogs from small to large. Order numbers in sequence.
8. PICNIC: COUNTING – Feed a hippo the correct number of food items.

Park Math includes 2 levels for Preschool and Kindergarten. Level 1 includes counting up to 20 and addition/subtraction with numbers up to 5. Level 2 includes counting up to 50 and addition/subtraction with numbers up to 10.

Instrumental music recorded especially for this app with cello and guitar includes popular nursery rhymes: This Old Man, Skip to My Lou, Five Little Ducks, The Muffin Man, and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.

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MY THOUGHTS:

First off this game is so colorful and fun looking I knew it would be a hit with my 3 year old. There is so much to do in this app that I don’t even know where to start! Each little game has an activity within it that is educational but so much fun my sons doesn’t even realize he is learning! Some of the games he does guess at since he doesn’t understand counting too well yet, but I do think the game is helping him and he is only 3 years old. To navigate to a different game you just tap on the bear and he skates to another random game or you can click on the kite to choose a particular game or level. Each activity does say what you need to do like “Feed the hippo 5 green apples” but if you miss that there is no way to hear it again which I wish there was a way to repeat the instructions because I think it would help my son if he kept hearing the instructions. Now he just comes to me and points or just keep tapping or dragging items. Overall though the game is very cute and engaging. The illustrations are nice and kid-friendly and the background music is fun. I can see kids getting bored maybe with some of the activities after awhile, but there are so many to choose from that they can easily move onto the next. My son plays Park Math all the time and has yet to grow bored of it!