nice work! I tried a couple and they look great
Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade
101–110 of 110 posts
Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade
#102nice work! I tried a couple and they look great
Thanks for checking them out!
Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade
#103Great stuff! Side note: the background music on one of the games (Space Race | Three-Digit Addition - Adding 10) reminded me of this Bollywood song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mXkbWKr5ovU
Ha! Awesome. Total Bollywood music lover over here
Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade
#104The Dino Eggs Multiplication by 6 game has the same order each time, which might make kids remember the order instead of the multiplication facts.
Ok!! We were able to figure out a fix for randomizing one of the games. Here's an example. We just need to apply it to all the games still. Thanks for the great feedback! https://www.mindlygames.com/game/addition-within-20-space-ra...
Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
This book looks super cool! Did you write it? We haven't forayed into preschool games yet so I'll def check this out. Thanks!
Ah! Not me. I should have made that clear. A Mathematician named Alexander Zvonkin wrote it. The book's super well written and is full of useful ideas though!
I will def check it out. Thanks again!
Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi! Any chance you could let me know what type of device your using? We tested on a few after your comment and this might be a really helpful piece of info for us. Thanks for letting us know it isn't loading for you!
Firefox windows (in order.. seems like the first one starts the chain): - Error decoding audio: menuMusic - The buffer passed to decodeAudioData contains invalid content which cannot be decoded successfully. - Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: The buffer passed to decodeAudioData contains invalid content which cannot be decoded successfully. - Uncaught Error: Audio key "menuMusic" missing from cache`
Ok! I think we found the issue and it's with our music files on firefox. Should be fixed now! Thank you so much for catching this.
Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade
#107My son responds super well to gamified learning. What I found is that there are plentiful options when it comes to math... but not as much so when it comes to reading. When he was in kindergarten during the disrupted school year of 2020/21... I created a "reading version" of the classic Battle Ship game. Instead of a 10x10 grid of letters and numbers it was a 10x10 grid of K-2 "sight words" that I would randomly choo…
That's impressive. Makes me feel like I need to up my Dad game.
Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade
#108I don't have kids, but I love the UX here! Keep it up :)
Thank you so much for that :) !
Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox windows (in order.. seems like the first one starts the chain): - Error decoding audio: menuMusic - The buffer passed to decodeAudioData contains invalid content which cannot be decoded successfully. - Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: The buffer passed to decodeAudioData contains invalid content which cannot be decoded successfully. - Uncaught Error: Audio key "menuMusic" missing from cache`
Ok! I think we found the issue and it's with our music files on firefox. Should be fixed now! Thank you so much for catching this.
Can confirm it works now :) Feature: Might I suggest you remember toggling music/sound off across games.
Re: Show HN: Silly math games to make learning fun for K through 3rd grade
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the ideas - introduction to math equations as 3D graphics game with effects. I haven't seen such games, except silly, that do that. Maybe some other foundational math principles implemented as games. I love https://www.zachtronics.com/ games, but these games are for 12+ I guess, and even more. Not always about math though. Adults assume that kids are fine with silly educational tools. While in reality they're…
Something like Myst could be a very fun implementation of this. Have some of the puzzle be solved by manipulation of the environment using graphing, or have actual mathematical puzzles. I bet a word problem would be much more interesting if you play it out
This is a great idea :)