The teachers we work with have told us over and over that fractions are a key area where they want more game levels, and that is what we are working on now. Spirit Lake teaches mostly multiplication and division, using word problems. This is also an area they wanted, but not as much as the fractions.
The two examples I showed were the biggest improvements, that's why we had them done. The other areas could be better but the need for improvement is not as obvious. The question is — where do you draw the line?
What I DON'T want us to be is one of those fake educational games, where it is a game 90% of the time with math problem thrown in there now and then. So, I'm working on the math problems and videos, like this one – Maria happened to do that one, but you get the idea. If you can't see the video in WordPress, try here.
buying the game! If you want to donate it to a low-income school, we have classrooms lined up waiting.
If we had twice as much money, we could pay twice as many people and do both. That's a topic for another post, though. Stay tuned.