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by natural219 4394 days ago
You are being very nitpicky. There are a lot of stages to math development and learning. Mathbreakers is targeting one specific step. Your words imply that you believe this game should solve all of the problems of math education. It can't and it won't.

The point is to build out the subconscious neural scaffolding required to have an intuitive understanding of how algebra works by simulating early math concepts in a 3D environment. They achieve this goal impressively well. In terms of giving children a good "number sense", this absolutely does a great job of demonstrating certain aspects, and I am convinced that repeated play will translate in to real math gains in early education. I would love to debate the nuances of how this scaffolding is achieved, but you seem more interested in making smart-sounding points than actually examining the problem and offerin constructive criticism for how to solve that problem.