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Counting Caterpillar
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- iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
- $1.99
- Education
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that Counting Caterpillar is a charming way for kids who are just learning to count to 100 or count by 2s, 5s, and 10s to practice those skills. Players drop cute flying number bugs into a climbing caterpillar's mouth and collect unique butterflies. There are 45 levels and enough options to customize this app to your child's current learning level without being overwhelming.
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What's it about?
The cute creature in Counting Caterpillar is hungry, and your kid needs to feed it aphids by dragging them in numerical order onto the caterpillar. Young kids can get hints by color if needed. The app rewards kids with a beautiful butterfly for each of the 45 levels completed. Counting Caterpillar is definitely for beginning counters, but can get more complicated for kids who can remember numbers in random placements.
Is it any good?
COUNTING CATERPILLAR is well worth the $1.99 price. As the caterpillar transforms into a butterfly by eating the numbers that players feed it in correct order, the kids themselves are being transformed into numbers masters, ready to take flight into the next levels of math with counting confidence. The butterfly graphics are quite captivating, and a nice change of pace from the average math app.
Talk to your kids about ...
Help your kid practice skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s in the car or other times when time allows for repetition.
Use nickel and dimes to practice counting money while skip counting.
App details
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
- Subjects: Math: counting
- Skills: Self-Direction: academic development, identifying strengths and weaknesses
Thinking & Reasoning: memorization - Price: $1.99
- Release date: October 20, 2011
- Category: Education
- Size: 12.70 MB
- Publisher: Bellamon
- Version: 1.1.1
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 4.2 or later
For kids who love math
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