Since 2010, Motion Math has released nine math games which have been downloaded over four million times and earned a slew of awards. I wanted to try these highly acclaimed games for myself so I downloaded the Motion Math: Superb Bundle, which contained all nine titles.
If you just want to skip straight to the reviews, that begins a few paragraphs down in the section titled Motion Math Games. If you want to read about the origins of Motion Math and the basis for my ranking system, start right here with Flow is Fun.
Flow is Fun
On July 30th, 2010 at Stanford University, soon-to-be Motion Math co-founders, Gabriel Adauto and Jacob Klein unveiled their first iPhone app to a small room full of luminaries, including Lean Startup co-founder, Will Harvey and serial education entrepreneur JohnDanner. Presenting their project—the culmination of a hectic year in Stanford University’s Learning Design and Technology Master’s program—Adauto and Klein described how they began with a learning problem—that conceptualizing fractions is difficult—and arrived at a solution: an accelerometer-based fractions game they called Motion Math (later re-released as Motion Math: Fractions).
Read the entire article on the EdSurge website.
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