Shape Arts: Geometry Creations
By Debbie Gorrell,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Shape up spatial-reasoning skills with interactive puzzles.
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What’s It About?
Shape Arts: Geometry Creations is organized into six puzzle categories: My Puzzlets, New, Popular, People, Creatures, and Easy. In My Puzzlets, kids can use up to seven shapes to create, save, and share puzzles. The New and Popular categories contain the latest and greatest puzzles created by other players. The People category contains puzzles of people doing various activities such as walking, jumping, and boating. The Creatures category includes puzzles of animals such as fish, birds, and four-legged critters. Finally, the Easy category is a collection of moderately easy shape puzzles. Kids can earn marbles for completing and creating puzzles, which are displayed on a separate rewards page. A parent section includes a summary of learning goals, a few teaching tips, contact information, ads for other apps, and a privacy policy.
Is It Any Good?
The game is an interactive and engaging way for kids to build geometry skills and spatial reasoning, using a digital version of a toy they might already love. Hints support learning without giving away the answer, encouraging kids to solve the puzzles on their own. Kids can easily view the levels they've completed, as well as the reward marbles they've collected. It's empowering for kids to freely explore and complete any puzzles they wish in any order, but the option to complete and unlock levels would provide a more structured learning experience. It also would be great to see some definitions of the different shapes and geometry concepts that kids use.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the shapes that make up each puzzle. Discuss attributes such as number of sides, relative lengths of sides, and angles.
Have kids create paper cutout puzzles using the seven shapes provided in the app. For an extra challenge, have them use additional shapes.
Review the Learning tab of the parent section for discussion and extension ideas.
App Details
- Devices: iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Subjects: Math : patterns, shapes
- Skills: Thinking & Reasoning : logic, part-whole relationships, problem solving, solving puzzles
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Release date: January 29, 2014
- Category: Education
- Publisher: Lighthouse Learning
- Version: 1.2
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 6.0 or later
- Last updated: June 20, 2020
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