Monster Math for Android

This game/app has potential but the monsters are creepy. My second grader was definitely weirded out and didn’t want to play because of how they look and interact - not very kid-friendly.

I have a 6-year old who's strong on math and wanted an app that would engage her in practice like MathTango once did—she completed all of its levels more than a year ago. This is not that app. We only saw the candy-collecting activities in more than an hour of play: the kid's job is to collect simple equations on candies that equal to a set number up top. While the kid is doing this, a threat-creature moves around on the screen to either penalize the kid when the threat gets close to the kid's character or eat/change the equation candies. The threat-creatures distracted and stressed her to the point at which she stopped wanting to look at or touch the screen. Instead, I asked her the equations and selected the candies based on her answers for a while. I myself found the threats annoying: I would start after a candy and the threat would move and interfere before I could get to it. I also didn't much like what I saw of the storyline, which mainly consisted of exchanges of verbal threats, “get candies to defeat this,” and attacking the threat-creatures with an axe once the candies were collected. Give it a try if you don't mind the idea of the storyline, you think your kid will be unbothered by the threat-creatures, and your kid won't mind doing the same activity type over and over. For us, it's a no.

Could not play even one game free

There seems to be no clear learning path and the app just does the same thing over and over. There has got to be a better math app out there than this.

Annual fees for a game? What happened to buying good software? If I want to use this for a few years for my kids, they’re asking for $300, maybe more? NOPE