Fruit Ninja Academy: Math Master Is One for the Kids

While great in theory, educational games are typically given as much love as a dirty dish towel. For every Oregon Trail, Mario Teaches Typing, or Donkey Kong Jr. Math, there are a million cringe-worthy releases aimed at bettering your kids. …

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While great in theory, educational games are typically given as much love as a dirty dish towel. For every Oregon Trail, Mario Teaches Typing, or Donkey Kong Jr. Math, there are a million cringe-worthy releases aimed at bettering your kids.

Is Fruit Ninja Academy: Math Master one of those cringers? Or a memorable hallmark in your child’s arithmetic education (with some accidental nutritional learning mixed in because — hey — it’s fruit).

It’s still too early to say for sure (our real critics won’t be testing it until the school bus brings them home), but with a good mix of mini-games teaching a variety of math skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, shapes, fractions, and sequences), Halfbrick seems to have remembered two really important things about educational games: Kids bore of repetition, and kids want challenges that are appropriate for their age level. There’s nothing worse than a math game that spans skills learned from kindergarten to college.

Fruit Ninja Academy: Math Master says that it’s for kids aged 5-7, and based on what we’ve seen, that seems spot on. If your child is in that age range, they’ll no doubt be pleased to jump from mini-game to mini-game practicing the skills they’ve learned in school.

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Fruit Ninja Academy: Math Master is available now on iOS and Android for $4.99.

Jim Squires is the Editor-in-Chief of Gamezebo. Everything you see passes his eyes first, so we like to think of him as "the gatekeeper of cool stuff." He likes good games, great writing, and just can't say no to a hamburger. Also, he is not a bear.