{"id":3310,"date":"2015-07-28T21:32:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T20:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathedup.co.uk\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2022-01-20T22:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:48:04","slug":"maths-mobile-puzzlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mathedup.co.uk\/maths-mobile-puzzlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Maths Mobile Puzzlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there actually a way to \u201cunlock math<\/a>\u201d for ourselves and learn the subject quickly? It is a universal and undebatable knowledge that mathematics is a darn difficult subject.<\/p>\n

The nice thing about some of the games available on the app store (or Google Play, if you are that way inclined) is that it gives people an opportunity to develop problem solving and logical thinking skills while having fun. Below is a list of my top n (I may add to it) apps that fall into this category – In no particular order.<\/p>\n

Drop 7 (iOS<\/a> Free), (Android<\/a> Free)<\/h2>\n

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An oldie, but a really addictive game. It was once described as Tetris meets Sudoku; like Tetris you have things dropping from the sky which need slotting into the correct place; like Sudoku you need to be aware of the entire grid so you can slot the numbers into the correct place to give you maximum points (I guess it isn’t massively like Sudoku!). The idea is that discs with numbers from 1 to 7 drop down and you need to position them strategically in order to stop the grid filling up. Each time a disc drops in a slot where the number matches the number of discs in that row or column, all adjacent cells are exploded. Not massive on number work, but a fair bit of strategic thinking and problem solving required. The maths behind the scoring system is interesting if you feel the need to work it out. There are lots of modes on Drop 7 of which ‘Blitz’ is, in my opinion, the best.<\/p>\n