Math Rescue : School Version

Rounding up/down and estimating sums is fun with Math Rescue!

Estimation is an essential skill for every child to master - going from exact computations to finding "near about" answers much faster needs some conceptual understanding of how rounding works. This skill is useful in many places - whether you are estimating your monthly expenses, a shopping bill total, lengths/distances or time.

Math Rescue focusses on this essential skill and is specially designed so that your kids learn and practice the following skills -

- Rounding to nearest 10s and 100s of two and three digit numbers.

- Estimating sum of two 2-digits numbers

- Estimating sum of two 3-digits numbers

The game not only teaches children how to round up numbers but also helps speedily to understand some more basic math concepts such as the place value of a digit in a number. The app reinforces these math concepts with self-paced practice anytime, anywhere.

Estimation, especially fast estimation of addition of multiple numbers, is an essential skill in the daily life application of Math. From simple things like sensing whether a shopping list is going out of budget, to arriving at project cost expectations at work or figuring out which home financing options are better in the long run, estimation can significantly improve the quality and the speed of the decisions we make. Use Math Rescue to form a solid foundation for your child’s math skills.

Addition by rounding the number is also something that the game deals with, which will help in fast solving of mental math addition or subtraction problems.

Overall Skills covered

• Rounding to nearest 10

• Rounding 2 digit numbers to nearest 10

• Rounding 3 digit numbers to nearest 10

• Rounding numbers with 5 in the units place

• Rounding to nearest 100

• Rounding 3 digit numbers to the nearest 100

• Estimating addition using rounding

• Estimating addition of two 1-digit numbers

• Estimating addition of one 2-digit and one single digit number

• Estimating addition of two 2-digit numbers

• Estimating addition of one 2 digit and one 3 digit number

• Estimating addition of two 3 digit numbers

For those who follow common-core, the skills covered correspond to the following common core curriculum standards -

3.NBT.A.1 - Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

4.NBT.A.3 - Use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.

Grades 3, 4 and 5 kids will find this game very useful to improve their mental math abilities.

Purchase today, and help your child get better at rounding and estimation, which is an important building block to improving mental math!

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