Parents' Guide to
Times Tables Warp: The Multiplication Facts Game
Common Sense Media Review
By Leslie Crenna
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Arcade action flies kids through times tables.
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Times Tables Warp: The Multiplication Facts Game
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What's It About?
Kids select one of three characters, get a quick graphic and narrative tutorial on gameplay and controls, and then take off on a Star School mission in TIMES TABLES WARP: MULTIPLICATION FACTS GAME. While flying through blocks displaying products, kids tilt the device forward and back to speed up or slow down, tilt it left and right to navigate, and tap the screen to blast through space junk and meteors. Kids get a percent correct after about 20 correct items, but the game will go on indefinitely if all answers are incorrect.
Is It Any Good?
Times Tables Warp: Multiplication Facts Game will engage most kids, especially those who like arcade action. Contrast is poor for expressions (baby blue on white) and only slightly better for products (orange on white). Characters move down the course rather quickly, but kids can learn to slow it down by tilting the device all the way forward (vertical). Feedback comes gently with electronic tones for wrong answers and ethereal waves for correct ones. Most kids won't notice any of this because they'll be too busy guiding their characters along the course. Controls are very similar to two-handed game console controls.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about math they encounter every day: If we get two apples at $0.99 each, how much money do we need?
Discuss the types of math your kids enjoy and find challenging: Are there specific operations that are tricky? Why?
App Details
- Devices: iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android , Kindle Fire , Nook HD
- Subjects: Math : multiplication
- Skills: Thinking & Reasoning : memorization, Self-Direction : academic development
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Release date: July 23, 2012
- Category: Educational Games
- Topics: Space and Aliens
- Version: 1.0
- Minimum software requirements: Android 2.2 or later, iOS 5.1 or later
- Last updated: July 13, 2020
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