Sometimes it is easier to get your child to play a game then it is to get them to learn. It can also be true that you want your child to learn in a few different ways. Counting numbers, reciting numbers, and counting backwards can be fun, but it abstract counting can be fun too. What do I mean by abstract counting?
Sam Phibian By 3CD gets your child to count and learn numbers by getting Sam Phibian the amphibian to eat a certain number of flies. It is fun, interesting to young children and makes them think about the colors and flies they have already gotten Sam to eat.
I suppose it also teaches hand eye coordination, abstract thinking, as well as number skills, but really it is a fun way to eat flies and act like a frog. Does it work? Yep. I just told my four year old to eat the number of colored flies shown at the bottom of the screen and she was off. She likes to get Sam to wear funny hats and be goofy, but she also gets the counting part too.
Fun – 5
Learning – 4 (you really only learn one thing, but that is ok)
Attention – 4
Total – 13
Check out my four year old and I playing with the app: