{"id":19940,"date":"2020-03-11T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19940"},"modified":"2020-03-08T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:34:13","slug":"math-land-switch-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/11\/math-land-switch-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Land (Switch, Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Arrrr, Matey!\u00a0 Embark on a pirate-y arithmetic adventure in Math Land.\u00a0 An evil pirate has stolen a gem that makes all these islands infested with purple gems and evil flowers.\u00a0 You, as the good (?) pirate, must solve math problems and explore islands to collect special artifacts to stop him!\u00a0 This game is great practice for grade schoolers who are working on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.\u00a0 And even adults can enjoy this game as working out math problems in your head is a great brain exercise.\u00a0 Math Land is available for Switch and mobile devices, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

So in order to explore an island, you\u2019ll need enough spyglasses.\u00a0 To get spyglasses, you must solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and greater than\/less than equations.\u00a0 Enter in your age and the game will adjust the difficulty accordingly.\u00a0 When you have enough spyglasses, you can explore an island or two.<\/p>\n

On these islands you\u2019ll control a pirate dude as you walk around 3-D isometric islands.\u00a0 You can interact with objects with one button (like kicking away boxes), and jump with the other button.\u00a0 Collect coins and you might earn a special coin to put in your treasure book.\u00a0 Sometimes you must also solve math problems to get a key to unlock a door as well.\u00a0 Other times you may need to play a short mini-game to pass.\u00a0 Get the treasure with the artifact to complete the level, and then start the process over again with another island.<\/p>\n

The only problems I had with this game are that you can only pick to be a boy pirate.\u00a0 Why not be able to select a girl pirate to play as?\u00a0 Also, the isometric playfields can make judging jumping distances difficult sometimes, but luckily the game is pretty easy on the platforming and there are checkpoints aplenty.\u00a0 Otherwise, this is still a great way for elementary school kids and even adults to brush up on their basic math skills.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you get hit by a cannon ball, evil parrot, monster flower, or fall into the water, you\u2019ll just say \u201couch\u201d and flash for a bit.\u00a0 Run out of hearts and you\u2019ll turn into a ghost and reappear back to normal at the last checkpoint, and that\u2019s as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Obviously, number recognition, basic math skills, and the ability to read are needed to play.\u00a0 Perfect for kids who are learning their times tables and such.\u00a0 Math Land is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arrrr, Matey!\u00a0 Embark on a pirate-y arithmetic adventure in Math Land.\u00a0 An evil pirate has stolen a gem that makes all these islands infested with purple gems and evil flowers.\u00a0 You, as the good (?) pirate, must solve math problems and explore islands to collect special artifacts to stop him!\u00a0 This game is great practice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19979,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940\/revisions\/19979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}