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Single player and multiplayer Easy logic riddles Challenging logic riddles Sum math riddles Multiplication math riddles Mixed (+/*) math riddles
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Math and visual logic riddles Android app:
Practice k-4 math (+,-,*,/) using our interactive riddles game. Play with logic riddles (easy mode for k-6, challenging mode for k-12 and parents). Read more about this app.
Trace pre-cursive Android app:
Print, D'Nealian manuscript and cursive fonts. Upper and lower case letters, simple words, joined-up writing for cursive Read more in this app.
"Trace pre-cursive" android game provides dynamic instructions for tracing letters in print, manuscript and cursive.
Print, d'nealian manuscript and cursive fonts are supported.
Green circle designated the starting point and the arrow gives the writing direction.
"Trace pre-cursive" android game provides dynamic instructions for tracing letters in print, manuscript and cursive.
Learn numbers and play math Android app:
Learn digits and numbers 0-30 by tracing, listening and counting.
Digits and numbers tracing game that keeps children engaged and practicing through gamification of this boring task. The game includes 15 levels, each emphasizing various aspects of writing: accuracy, smoothness, speed of writing. We first teach children how to draw each digit with dynamic instructions and then we teach them to combine digits into larger numbers The writing accuracy, smoothness and speed are evaluated and children receive feedback.
Fifteen levels of a game for of tracing digits and numbers. The game presents dynamic instructions for writing digits, direction of writing numbers. Checking accuracy, smoothness and speed of tracing and giving kids feedback. Children listen to the digits names in US English. Each number is accompanied by a picture with the corresponding number of items, so that children count the items and correlate the counted number to the name and way of writing.
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