Product Review of Times Tables Warp: The Multiplication Facts Game

learners who have some time to drill math facts. Ask your learners to design their own multiplication games: How would their space-bound adventure work? How would it get harder as learners progressed?

While Times Tables Warp may engage kids who like console and arcade games, the learning potential could be brought into focus a bit better. Specifically, it’s really hard to gauge your progress in the moment and overall: Contrast is poor for expressions (baby blue on white) and only slightly better for products (orange on white), so it’s hard to choose correct answers wisely since the options can be so hard to see. Plus, feedback for right and wrong answers isn’t detailed or long enough to let players reflect on their choices and correct accordingly, and gameplay doesn’t really adjust based on your performance. Overall, this might be a fun way for enthusiastic gamers to hone their math facts, but look elsewhere for a deeper, more methodical way to drill those skills.

Website: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.TinmanLearning.TimesTablesWarpMultiplicationFactsGame

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id409345834?uo=4&at=10laCG&ct=website

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007KAUY54?tag=comsenmed07-20

Overall User Consensus About the App

Student Engagement

The cool theme and engaging gameplay will draw kids in, but the game’s design makes it hard to read the math problems.

Curriculum and Instruction

A pretty simplistic approach to multiplication review. With hard-to-read feedback and limited options for interaction, learning doesn’t feel especially baked-in.

Customer Support

A settings page and some narrative tutorials are good, but there’s no way for learners (or their educators) to track progress other than the percentage of correctly answered questions at the end of a session.