Squeebles Fractions is a visually inviting game for students learning fractions, but it is not very fun and has several negative features that parents should consider. There are 4 mini games using fractions with virtual dessert prizes with the ultimate goal to avoid the “Math Monster”. In A Piece of Cake, the student must give the Squeeble the correct fraction of the cake. The second game is a matching game to choose pairs of equivalent fractions. The third game requires comparing fractions and dragging the cake to the the bigger fraction. The fourth game requires adding fractions and selecting the correct multiple choice answer. On the positive side, all games have two difficulty levels, the numbers are easy to read, and there are prizes and a break activity for answering questions correctly. On the negative side, there are red X’s for incorrect answers, no hint or help button, no scratch pad to reduce fractions, multi-sentence directions and comments that cannot be read aloud, and a math monster that sometimes says “Maybe I should make [them] a little easier" for incorrect answers. Parents who do not want to encourage junk food and mean comments and want to avoid a negative connotation for math may want to avoid this app but it does provide age appropriate fraction practice.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Anxiety
• Themes that might disturb sensitive students (death, blood, slime)
• Gives negative feedback (red X's, buzzer)
• Numerical Fluency
• Requires multi-step mental math
• Student will need to copy or write multi-digit math problems
• Visual Discrimination
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Directions are visually difficult to read
• Working Memory
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Requires multi-step mental math
• Student will need to copy or write multi-digit math problems

Perfect for 7 to 11 year olds, the Squeebles are here to help your children practise their fractions in a fun, colourful way, with cakes!!!

- The Squeebles games have been featured on BBC Radio, as well as in The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The Guardian and more.

Featuring 4 mini games, a great reward scheme involving cakes (and we all love cakes), several difficulty levels and unlimited players this Squeebles game will make the task of learning fractions a LOT more fun.

The game is aimed at 7-11 year olds but can be used by anyone who wants to brush up on their fractions in a fun way.

Features:

> 4 mini games aimed at helping children learn fractions:
- A Piece of Cake: drag different fractions of cakes to each Squeeble as they ask for them. Easy mode covers halves, quarters and thirds, with hard mode covering fractions up to tenths.
- Tricky Pairs: match fractions of the same value (i.e.: 1/2 matches with 3/6) as quickly as possible. Easy mode features 4 pairs and hard mode features a whopping 9 pairs!!!
- Think Big: drag the cake to the Squeeble who calls out the largest fraction. Easy mode covers halves, thirds and quarters. Hard mode covers fractions up to twelfths.
- Super Sums: Answer 10 of the Maths Monster's fractions questions as quickly as possible. Easy, medium and hard modes.
> UK or US English
> Universal app runs on both iPad and iPhone / iPod Touch
> Great reward system and storyline. The Squeebles want to enter the Cake Making Contest but The Maths Monster has stolen all their ingredients and their entry tokens. You have to help the Squeebles win back their ingredients and tokens by working through the four fractions mini-games. You can then make cakes from over 100 ingredients and enter them into the contest!
> Over 100 cake ingredients from delicious sweet classics like toffee sauce and chocolate flakes to bizarre Squeeble favourites like curry sponge and sugared carrots!
> Covers fractions from halves to twelfths.
> Win trophies for doing well in games.
> Features 10 of the Squeebles characters, including Whizz, Lex and the nasty Maths Monster.
> Set up unlimited players, making this app perfect for classroom use as well as home use.
> Makes learning fractions fun!!!
> No in-app purchases, advertising or web links mean all our apps are 100% safe for your children to use.

Other Squeebles apps include Times Tables 2, Spelling, Addition & Subtraction, Maths Bingo and Division.