BRAINtastic! Maths Demo

Learning new things is usually tons of fun, except if these things involve any kind of equation or too many numbers. Hence, maths is not a pleasant subject for most children, mainly because it can sometimes be rather difficult to grasp. However, just like with everything else, there are ways to disguise those apparently boring equations and make them look exciting.

BRAINtastic! Maths tries to help children see the beauty in numbers and learn how to use a variety of formulas in day-to-day activities. Hence, instead of bombarding them with scary-looking equations and forcing them to learn how to use complicated methods to solve them, the game tries to emphasize on the useful aspects of the subject.

Although this might sound like there’s not a lot of learning involved, the quizzes are not very simple at all, because they put your mind to work. Not only that, but some of the questions require a bit of logical prowess as well, otherwise you might not be able to understand why the answers you give are incorrect. However, since the highest age group available is between 11 and 15 years old, don’t expect anything too complicated either.

Even if the underlying concepts and ideas are rather similar regardless of the chosen mini-game, the application encompasses a large number of different activities. Some of them may not be as inspired as others, but the sheer amount of options should be enough to keep the children occupied. The games are correlated with the actual school curriculum, which means that the skills the kids learn are also taught by teachers in school.

Understandably, the application is quite colorful and full of amusing drawings, which aim to keep the audience entertained and amused while teaching them maths. Hence, the user interface is quite simple and straightforward, with intuitive functions and plenty of visual cues. There are some compatibility issues you’ll have to deal with, but everything usually works fine in most circumstances.

In the end, BRAINtastic! Maths is definitely a valuable educational tool, but it can also be quite fun to toy around with. Hence, this may be the solution you were looking for to get your kid interested in maths, at least for a while until the next Call of Duty comes out.