Math Bridges: Improve math fluency - Lumos Educational App Store

Part of the Monster Math games suite, this fun math game focusses on improving addition and subtraction fluency for kids, by helping them learn bridging - an advanced arithmetic technique. Math doesn't need to mean rote-learning - once they are flexible with numbers, kids of first, second, third and fourth grade will be able to calculate these facts fast, come up with their own math tricks without needing to use pen and paper! Math Bridges useful for younger kids - seeing the numbers as manipulatives and performing addition and subtraction operations by joining and cutting bridges makes it very easy for kids to visualize exactly how number operations work. For older kids, they can move past the manipulatives and focus on understanding the flexibility of numbers and especially the bridging method for adding and subtracting. This addition and subtraction strategy game has 30 different levels to help your child get the necessary flexibility with numbers and mental math facts. Math Bridges is suited for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades. Download it for your child now, and see them get better at number flexibility and mental math. Math Bridges Features: Math Games and Tutorials for: o Understanding Addition o Understanding Subtraction o Use of manipulatives for Addition and Subtraction o Understanding of friendly numbers o Tricks to use the bridging strategy using friendly numbers Engrossing Game play and Gorgeous World o 3 Completely Different and New Themes o Superior gameplay features and more interactivity for the kids o All new artwork and soundtrack o Win the game with the power of math! Skills your child can learn from Math Bridges - " Represent addition and subtraction with objects " Solve addition and subtraction problems within 10 by using objects or drawings to represent the problem " Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way " Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract " Understand subtraction as an unknown-append problem " Relate counting to addition and subtraction " Use strategies such as counting on, making ten, decomposing a number leading to a ten; using relationship between addition and subtraction and creating equivalent but easier or known sums. " Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies For those who follow the common core, these correspond to the following common core standards: K.OA.A.1, K.OA.A.2, K.OA.A.3, 1.OA.B.3, 1.OA.B.4, 1.OA.C.5, 1.OA.C.6, 2.OA.B.2. Reasons to Play: Apart from the fact that your child will benefit from this game, they will also thoroughly enjoy it! Built by game designers, teachers and programmers, this mental math game brings together sound pedagogy and serious fun in one package. Aside from being engaging math game, Math Bridges also has features like 1) Based on best of the international curriculum (e.g., common core, Ontario, TEKS, MAFS) 2) Embedded in-game formative and diagnostic assessments.