Free The Balloon + app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: John-Mark Ferguson
First release : 18 Jul 2013
App size: 43.4 Mb
Free the captured balloons by blowing them through hoops in the right order. Free The Balloon was designed to engage primary aged school children and teach a foundational math skill: skip counting! Skip counting is an important activity to build math fluency for all calculations.
Free The Balloon facilitates the learning of skip counting by: 1s, 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s, and 25s. The game has been validated and proven to teach the above math skills by an educational psychologist and elementary school teachers!*
Navigate the Balloon through the four seasons while dodging falling icicles, lightning, swooping birds, and other things trying to stop the balloons from being freed! 35 levels and counting (more levels to come). Play and learn. Earn coins and buy updates and new chapters.
This learning outcome is standard on primary education curricula around the world!
* After hours of vigorous beta testing in elementary schools by kids, plus input from teachers, parents, numeracy folks, and an educational psychologist Free The Balloon does teach what it claims. Anyone who plays Free The Balloon will learn the foundational math skill of skip counting!