(3 minute read)

Back in August 2024, we released the Stage 3 update for Number Skills. Introducing new minigames and new skills, such as numbers to 100 and the foundations of multiplication, we thought we’d use this article to check in on Number Skills and see how it’s doing. 

Adding Number Skills Stage 3 aimed to expand the educational content on offer to cover most of the mathematical pedagogical requirements for EYFS/KS1 or Year 1/kindergarten. To do this, a whole second island of seven new minigames was added, including: 

Monster Trucks - Jump into a monster truck and bash the other trucks! This game helps kids to practice quickly recognising numbers to 20.

Volcano - Jump up the platforms and save your monster from the fiery lava. This game helps children get more familiar with numbers up to 100, including counting from, backwards, and in groups.

Ghost Train - Get the right queue of numsters riding the spooky ghost train! This game helps children practice addition and combining numbers (number bonds) up to 20.

Bubbles - Pop and merge bubbles to hit the target number. This game helps children practice breaking numbers apart and putting them back together (composition/decomposition).

Carousel - Arrange the unicorns in the right order and watch them spin around the carousel! This game is based on number lines or tracks, a familiar classroom tool.

Storklift - Help your monster load the right number of boxes on and off the truck. Helps with understanding place value and working with tens and ones.

Dino Dash - Quickly load up the right number of plates of snails to feed the hungry customers. This game helps with the foundations of multiplication through working with equal groups/arrays.

Following this release, we’ve tracked the data and can now report that: 

• Stage 3 Adventure mode (the main gameplay) has been played by over 1.5m players (that’s roughly the population of San Antonio, Texas!)
• The Bubbles minigame alone has been played over 3 million times!
• Number Skills has had over 3.5 million players overall, with 30 million plays total. 

But let’s not have the data lead the way, let’s look at some real reviews from our players:

★★★★★

It’s great!!!!!  ·  We have been using it, and my 7-year-old is learning her numbers skills so well. ITS AMAZING!!!!!!!

Parent

★★★★★

Fantastic app!!! The only educational app my 6-year-old daughter will engage with. She wakes up asking to play it. So happy I found this app. I really hope you can make more of these to help with things like telling the time and maybe ones that can help with daily task and wellbeing. You've done a fantastic job and the fact it's just one simple affordable payment with no monthly subscription has blow my mind even more. 5 stars from me most definitely!!!

Parent

Lori Cash, US teacher said
"My students have really enjoyed doing the Experienced Level of Teach Your Monster Number Skills and several of them have completed it already. We have found it to be a good review of the skills they have learned in first grade and it has contributed to them scoring well on their NWEA test. They continue to enjoy the wonderful animated characters and have found it easy to use and understand."

We’re thrilled by the response to the newest update to Number Skills and have already had many players contact us to ask for more. We’ve got plenty of updates in the works—keep an eye on our socials and newsletter for what’s coming next!

Leo Allen, Product Manager for Teach Your Monster Number Skills