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Engaging mini-activities for practice, building fluency.
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2nd Grade Math Planet – Fun Math Game Curriculum
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What's It About?
Kids can choose from the main options for play: Math Facts and Planet mini-activities. In Math Facts, kids complete a set of grade-appropriate drills as quickly and accurately as possible. In the Planet mini-activities, there are over 30 levels spread across five planets. Kids work on a variety of skills and activities with different themes. A progress-tracking program shows kids' scores as percentiles and as percent correct. Kids are motivated to earn points and stars, which they can use to unlock new avatars.
Is It Any Good?
2ND GRADE MATH PLANET - FUN MATH GAME CURRICULUM FOR ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, PLACE VALUE, COUNTING, AND MORE FOR SECOND GRADE has a wide variety of activities that are grade-appropriate yet challenging. The different styles of questions and theme keeps kids engaged, and the progress-tracking program is comprehensive and easy to use. It's helpful that kids can switch from Math Facts, where they work on fluency, to the Planet mini-activities, where they work on various skills to build conceptual understanding. It would be great to see some instructional hints and feedback in the game so kids can learn even more as they play.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about word problems. After kids finish a mini-activity, have them write a word problem related to the math content from the activity.
When kids tackle the Math Facts drills, use a timer to see how many problems they can accurately finish in one minute.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android , Kindle Fire
- Subjects : Math : addition , counting , division , estimation , multiplication , numbers , subtraction
- Skills : Thinking & Reasoning : memorization , part-whole relationships , thinking critically , Self-Direction : academic development , working efficiently
- Pricing structure : Paid, Free
- Release date : July 11, 2014
- Genre : Education
- Publisher : Playpower Labs
- Version : 1.1
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 4.3 or later; Android 2.3 and up
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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