![]() Want to see it in action? Check out developer We Want To Know‘s trailer for the game here.įor us, solving the problems as they come up in DragonBox, and talking about concepts like “balance” in equations and what zero really means, is all we need. It’s about logic and understanding how numbers play with each other. ![]() This is what I love about real math: It’s so much more than computation. “It’s a mind-thinking game,” Ashar described it. While later problems in each chapter look like this one, with numbers and letters, earlier problems feature creatures in place of letter variables and dice-style “pips” in place of numbers. There are 10 chapters in the DragonBox Algebra 12+ app, each with a different dragon you’re to feed and grow throughout that chapter’s 20 to 30 levels, each consisting of a problem solved in stages like the one you see Ashar’s work for above. How can dragons and boxes teach the concepts of algebra? Ashar got into it and used it pretty heavily, and this year, when it happened to come up as an option for us to review, she said, “HEY! We did that! Let’s talk about it!” When I can show her how the true concepts behind “school math” appear in ways that intersect with her day-to-day life, well, that’s what I’m going for! And as part of my personal quest to show people that you can unschool math, and that math can be cool, I often check out any “math stuff” that comes down the pike.Īs part of that, last year, we starting playing around with an app called DragonBox Algebra. In homeschooling, though, I think I’ve been able to show Ashar something cool about “math” – that it’s not just (or, in my opinion, even mostly) about calculation. ![]() Disclosure: In exchange for the honest review of our experience which appears in this post, our family was offered the DragonBox Algebra 12+ app download for free, but we’d already chosen to purchase the game last year! We were compensated for our time completing the review, but all fun had was ours.
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