Parents' Guide to

Team Umizoomi

By Emily Ashby, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 3+

Super team teaches preschoolers real-life math applications.

TV Nick Jr. Kids' Animation 2010
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Based on 51 parent reviews

Enrique U.
Enrique U. Parent of 6, 7 and 11-year-old
April 22, 2023
age 2+

Nice Show!

This is a very good Show For kids. I wish I could teleport back to when my kids were babies.

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Educational value
Great messages
djsmith1
djsmith1 Parent of 2, 3 and 4-year-old
May 20, 2022
age 2+

Fun, Simple, & Educational

Cute show with fun songs, basic math reasoning, and simple problem solving. Heck, my kids love making patterns because of Milli! It’s one that I can turn on and not worry at all about what my kids are watching. Even the occasional “bad guys” are relatively benign and make amends/learn something at the end of the episodes. It’s colorful, fun, and engaging without being super overstimulating. And as a perk, since the “bad guys” aren’t that bad and none of the characters are annoying, my kids haven’t picked up annoying behaviors or phrases from this show. :) Also I friggin love Donovan Patton (voices Bot on Umizoomi and plays Joe on Blues Clues + the reboot ) Anyway, UmiZoomi has been in our show rotation for 2 years (since we had a 2.5 year old, 1 year old, and newborn! Screen time limits go out the window during the winter in the middle of a pandemic haha). It’s a fun show. Your kids won’t become mathematicians but they will learn some shapes, numbers, and patterns!

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What's the Story?

When trouble strikes in Umi City, kids are quick to enlist the help of mini superheroes Milli (voiced by Sophia Fox), Geo (Ethan Kempner), and their robot Bot (Donovan Patton). The spunky group solves all kinds of problems for their friends with their mastery of mathematics, and their adventures take them all over, above, and below the colorful city they call home.

Is It Any Good?

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Created by the braintrust that forever changed kids' programming with Blue's Clues, TEAM UMIZOOMI entices kids with its vibrant visual appeal and colorful characters who embody the energy and spirit of preschoolers. The show's now-familiar interactive format encourages kids to puzzle through questions themselves and take pride in themselves when they answer correctly.

Beyond offering exceptional educational content for youngsters, the show also is unique in its deliberate focus on a math curriculum. Many shows reinforce basic counting and number recognition skills, but Team Umizoomi takes the content to another level by introducing more complex concepts like spatial relation, measurement, and geometry -- and all at a level that preschoolers will have little trouble grasping.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can discuss the role that math plays in solving everyday problems. How did Milli and Geo's knowledge of numbers help them work through the challenge of the day? When do you use numbers on a regular basis?

  • Kids: Milli, Geo, and Bot each have special skills they can use. What are some of your special talents? How do you work to improve those skills? How helpful do you find them?

  • The show also draws attention to the shapes and colors that make up the world around us. Parents and kids can make a game out of identifying shapes and colors they see outside. Did this show teach you anything about colors, shapes, and numbers?

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