How to play
Two groups of critters hop into the meadow — one group from the left, one from the right — and land on two separate rows so they are easy to tell apart. Count both groups, then tap the number bubble that matches the total. Early rounds keep the sum to five; later rounds go up to ten. Each correct answer fills one of the ten flowers in the garden bar, and filling all ten wins the round. Wrong taps simply fade away, so your child can keep trying for as long as they like.
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.