“I can’t stop playing Crackers and Goo!!” Luca – 4th grader

“Crackers and Goo offers a perfect blend of action, pattern matching, and math skills. No other math app offers such a powerful educational experience in one package”. – Theresa Gorey, Learning Specialist

Over 6,000 different fun and challenging math games for K-6th graders for about the price of a Starbuck’s coffee!

Math is the science of patterns, and Crackers and Goo uses patterns to teach addition and multiplication concepts in a very visual manner. This is known as concrete-pictorial-abstract math instruction, and is considered by math education experts as the best way to teach math to children. The top performing countries in elementary mathematics education use this form of instruction.

Crackers and Goo was designed specifically for the Common Core Standards of Mathematics. The game emphasizes three of the Standards for Mathematics:

•Reason abstractly and quantitatively
•Look for and make use of structure
•Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning


CRITICAL LEARNING SKILLS

•Counting and skip-counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, and 100’s
•Pattern recognition and sorting
•Addition within 10, 20, 100, and 1,000
•Mental arithmetic strategies, including grouping
•Repeat-addition, leading to multiplication
•Rounding and multiplying
•Expanding and multiplying
•Algebraic concepts

RECOMMENDED AGES AND SKILL LEVELS

•Grades K-1: game levels 1-4
•Grades 2-3: game levels 5 - 7
•Grades 4-5: game levels 8 - 11
•Grades 5 and up: game levels 12 - 16

FEATURES

•Over 6,000 different games and 100 hours of play
•Lots of action: players form patterns with flying crackers while dodging goo splats! A math problem must be solved to win the game once the correct patterns are completed.
•16 different levels of play, each with over 5 hours of play and focusing on increasingly complex math skills
•Demo mode showing how to play the game
•Multiple players with separate tracking of scores and stats: each player has a customized name, sneaker avatar, and game play progress.
•Hints for completing patterns in every game
•Clues for math strategies to use in more complex games

The Free version offers your child with full exposure to all of the capabilities of the Crackers and Goo game, but significantly limits the number and variety of games available to your child.

Our one time in-app purchase to obtain the Pro version of the Crackers and Goo game vastly increases the number, variety, and complexity of games, which is crucial to a deep and long-term understanding of these math concepts. This allows your child the variety and repetition necessary for deep understanding and long-term retention of the math skills they learn, at about the cost of a Starbuck’s coffee!

PRIVACY

•We do not collect personally identifiable information
•Our app does not generate performance reports
•You can make a one-time in-app purchase of the Pro version from the free version
•We have no social media integration
•We have a link to our Web site
•We have no ads
•We use no third parties