How to play
Coloured bundles of ten and loose ones march past in parade formation. Tap the right bundle of tens and the right loose ones to assemble each number called out by the parade announcer. Parts of a balloon arch fill in as you build numbers correctly; mistakes trigger a friendly drum-roll and the same number is called again. Numbers grow from "thirty-four" toward three-digit values across a session.
What your child will learn
- Develop number sense and estimation
Skills practiced
- Problem solving
Why this age range
Tuned for grades 1–2 because tens-and-ones place value is the biggest cognitive leap of those grades. Children who arrive in grade 3 without it cannot do column addition meaningfully. The game presumes the child can already count to a hundred orally, which arrives around the start of first grade.
Notes for parents
The whole point of this game is to make the difference between "twenty-three" and "thirty-two" feel obvious. Children who can read two-digit numbers but reverse them under pressure haven't yet built the tens-and-ones picture in their heads. Place-value Parade is built around that picture. Five minutes a day for two weeks is usually enough; if your child's still confusing the columns after that, pull out actual buttons in a bowl and rebuild the concept on the kitchen table.