How to play
Critters appear in the meadow one at a time. Count them as they arrive (a gentle voice counts with you the first few times, then fades) and tap the digit that matches the total. Easy rounds use up to five critters; harder rounds add critters and ask for sums ("three rabbits and two foxes — how many critters in all?"). Each correct count earns a flower for your garden, which fills the screen when full.
What your child will learn
- Build addition fluency with sums up to 20
- Understand part-whole relationships
- Apply mental addition strategies
Skills practiced
- Number sense
- Mental math
- Problem solving
Why this age range
Designed for preschool (ages 4–5). Younger children can play the early levels but rarely sustain attention; older children find it too easy. The simple addition layered on top scaffolds toward kindergarten, but the core is the cardinality work that has to happen before formal arithmetic.
Curriculum standards
- CCSS.MATH.1.OA.C.6
- CCSS.MATH.2.OA.B.2
Notes for parents
What looks like a counting game is actually building the cardinality principle — the idea that the last number you say when counting is the answer to "how many?". Many three- and four-year-olds can recite the count sequence ("one, two, three, four, five") without grasping that the five is the answer. If your child counts perfectly but then gives a wrong number when asked the total, that's the gap this game fills.