Common Sense Media Review
By Dana Anderson
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Coin-counting games' fun rewards will keep kids coming back.
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Freefall Money
Parent and Kid Reviews
What's It About?
In settings, choose which modes you'd like to include in the game, and what type and amount of coins the app should include. In Scatter Mode, kids fill a piggy bank with a requested amount of money by tapping on the correct coins scattered around the screen. In Type Mode, type in the amount of money being shown with coins on the screen. Cluster Mode asks kids to add groups of coins. Once kids answer a few questions correctly, they get to tap on fish rewards to put into their virtual fish tank, which they can also clean and drop fish food into for fun.
Is It Any Good?
Elementary school-age kids who already know a bit about money but want to practice counting coins can play FREEFALL MONEY's three games and will likely keep coming back for more because of the fun fish tank reward system. In addition to the money practice, adding coins is also just good, basic math practice. Kids who are just starting out with money can limit the number of coins used to help make the game more manageable for their current skill level.
Earning fish for the tank is a fun way to reward kids for play. Counting coins on a screen may not seem like something most kids would enjoy, but the engaging games here that include clear, simple directions and lots of colorful rewards are worth their weight in gold for practice in counting money.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Save some coins in a jar and let your kid use them to practice making change.
Talk about the value of the coins and about saving money over time: What are some things you could buy with 50 cents? If you saved 50 cents every day for a year, about how much money would you have at the end of the year?
App Details
- Devices : Android , Kindle Fire
- Subjects : Math : addition , counting , estimation , money
- Skills : Thinking & Reasoning : part-whole relationships
- Pricing structure : Paid
- Release date : October 25, 2012
- Genre : Education
- Topics : Numbers and Letters
- Publisher : Merge Mobile
- Version : 1.2
- Minimum software requirements : Android 2.3.3 and up
- Last updated : October 1, 2025
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