Math games for kids: Fruit Slice and Times-Table Blackout

How does Fruit Slice work?

Fruit Slice is a 10-question round where your child swipes the fruit that shows the right answer. They can also tap the fruit, or type the number on a keyboard. A round starts with 3 hearts, and slicing a wrong fruit costs one. The stars equal the hearts left at the end, from 0 to 3. Kids aged 4 to 6 practice adding and taking away within 10, then within 20. Older kids practice the times tables. Facts your child missed recently come back in later rounds until they get them right on the first try.

How does Times-Table Blackout teach the times tables?

Times-Table Blackout teaches each times table through a trick, then has your child practice it. Times 2 is "double it", times 4 is "double, double", times 5 is "half of times 10", times 9 is "times 10, minus the number" and times 10 is "add a 0 at the end". Each trick has 5 levels with bigger numbers, from 2 to 10 up to 100 to 500, and getting almost all right on the first try opens the next. There is also a dark board to bring back and a timed speed fill. Kids answer by picking, spinning a slot-machine reel or typing.

Which times tables does each math level open?

Math has 5 levels, shared by both games. Level 1 opens the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Level 2 adds 3 and 4, level 3 adds 6, 7 and the square numbers, level 4 adds 8 and 9, and level 5 adds a "hard ones only" set. In Fruit Slice, three rounds at the current level with at least 9 of 10 right on the first try move your child up. In Times-Table Blackout, two stars on every open table does the same. Each level-up pays 5 bonus stars.

How do math stars turn into real rewards?

Games, chores and real rewards all run on the same stars. Stars from math go into the same balance as stars from the other games and from the missions you set at home. Your child spends them at the Prize Counter on rewards you picked and priced, and you approve each one before you hand it over. Fruit Slice pays up to 9 stars a day; after that your child can keep playing for fun, and the brain pet says it is full of math for today.

How it works

1. 1Your child picks Fruit Slice or Times-Table Blackout on the math page.
2. 2A Fruit Slice round is 10 questions and pays 0 to 3 stars.
3. 3Moving up a level adds 5 bonus stars.
4. 4At the Prize Counter your child asks for a reward you set.
5. 5You approve it in the parent area and give the reward in real life.

What you control as a parent

• You can move your child's math level (1 to 5) up or down with a slider, and see sample questions first. No test needed.
• You can run a short level check together to pick the starting level.
• You set the daily limit on stars from games, from 10 to 60 a day.
• You choose the rewards on the Prize Counter and what each one costs.

Questions parents ask