NumBots 4+

I personally absolutely love number but there’s one thing I kind of want to criticise when you are very good at something it doesn’t adapt to your level like I want it till it doesn’t get more difficult as in multiplication and division like me I mean you’re five but it’s still doing addition even though that is challenging me to do a recap I still wish that maybe we could choose our levels so that we are doing what we need to do and if we are doing stuff that we find easy they can maybe make it unavailable well now I’m just describing my dream math game but that’s good enough so you can make another number but you can call it what could you call it? You could call it super squares i’m getting off topic but the topic is well it is you know what it is so
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Interesting idea of making maths more enjoyable by treating it as a game. Visually colourful and draws you in to want to play. All you need to do is pass levels to earn coins to update your robot and stars to get badges sounds fun right? I believe that teachers can also print out certificates of achievements too.
My only concern is you need to get two stars to progress to the next level. Someone has decided on the time it should take to get the max 3, 2 and 1 stars. If a child has motor function difficulties and does not answer questions fast enough they will repeatedly have to repeat the level. My question is learning maths about the ability to answer questions quickly or have sound understanding and knowledge? I know my son (who loves numbers and maths) would get bored of this and after all if a game makes it difficult to progress they will just stop playing and play a different game.

It’s such a shame about the app itself.

She will see the answer to each question nearly immediately. Then spend a few seconds finding the button to press. The buttons are small and sometimes don’t press the first time. Then she has to press enter, which is a thought process that takes another few seconds. Then the enter button is also small and near the exit app swipe at the bottom. Sometimes it mis-presses, sometimes not. It all means it takes a while to move on to the next question. She’s pretty patient so that’s not the end of the world. Then she reaches the end of the exercise and it tells her she failed as she wasn’t quick enough. Over and over and over again. She’s actually really good at maths but she’s starting to believe she isn’t. She used to love maths, but I think this app is putting her off it. We keep sticking with it as it’s what the school picked, and they are so enthusiastic with the certificates and things. But the app is awful.