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By Amanda Bindel
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Kids build habitats, practice math with fun PBS characters.
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Why Age 6+?
Any Positive Content?
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Wild Kratts Creature Math
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What's It About?
Kids build habitats for animals in and around a lake while keeping the ecosystem balanced. But, before they can build a new habitat, they have to correctly answer an addition or subtraction problem. The Kratt brothers help kids through the environment and the math problems, using manipulatives to demonstrate the math. As kids add other animals and their habitats, they have to watch the smiley-face indicators over each animal to keep each well fed and the ecosystem well balanced. Kids earn creature power discs and banners throughout the game.
Is It Any Good?
Creating these creature habitats is addictive fun. Gameplay continues for quite a while, with kids needing at least three of each animal to earn the creature power disc. Up to four in-progress games can be saved. The math difficulty adjusts based on performance, so kids stay appropriately challenged. Just as with the Wild Kratts television program, kids learn about each animal and its habitat as they explore and play.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Since playing the full game is meant to take some time, set clear guidelines with kids on how long they may play at one time.
Talk to kids about the connections in our environment and how animals or plants or pieces of litter that are not a part of the natural ecosystem could negatively affect it.
App Details
- Device : iPad
- Subjects : Math : addition , subtraction , Science : animals , ecosystems and the environment
- Skills : Thinking & Reasoning : strategy , thinking critically
- Pricing structure :
- Release date : March 14, 2013
- Genre : Education
- Topics : STEM , Animals ( Wild Animals )
- Publisher : PBS KIDS
- Version : 1.2
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 4.3 or later
- Last updated : October 1, 2025
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