Mental Math Games & Practice

I’ve used this app on and off for the past year and a half. As someone with severe ADHD, I can say this is one of the best brain workouts for the prefrontal cortex (where ADHDers fall short, not just with attention span, but also with your emotions (I also have bipolar)) When I’m practicing math problems on a regular basis, I have a much better attention span. I also reached a point last year where I was able to do long division in my head (it took a minute or two, but still…I can’t do it now because I haven’t been using the app). What I love about this particular app is how inexpensive it is for what it is. You can make your math as easy or hard as you want it to be. Your memory and brain function will thank you! I wish I had stuck with it, but I got cocky and thought once I’d gotten good at it I didn’t need it anymore. But math is like a muscle, not riding a bicycle. The more math you do, the better you’ll do. But if you stop, you’re going to lose that cognitive function.

This app is perfect for getting faster at arithmetic. This app is perfect at what it is meant to do but I think it has a lot more potential. I would like to see a feature where you could write the smallest digit column first instead of the largest so that I could answer in a way that was more natural to how I do mental math. In other words backwards from how you normally input numbers on a calculator. Using the count down is a good feature but I do wish there was a way to hide the timer. Lastly, more options for memorizing different math rules, such as rules of sin, cos, tan etc. The developer seems very committed to his patrons, open to suggestions and responded quickly to my feedback email saying that he would try and add trig functions to a future update. This is what I believe makes this the best mental math learning app. A single person or a small team building software to empower users at a fair price who engage with their community of users to provide the best experience possible. Thank you for putting in the hours on this app!!!

I’m a physics major, so I’ve taken many many many math classes. But in school, it’s been a long while since I’ve used actual numbers. Maybe a number or two will appear in an equation once in a while, but I do very little of this type of sum. However, these things are incredibly useful to know. Finding the price per unit in a grocery store, estimating how much papaya will cost, how much should you tip, or those rare occasions when you need to calculate something in school and you don’t have a calculator because (like I just said) you almost never need a calculator. Arithmetic is a super useful life skill, and this app is great at helping you practice. It’s like a video game, but way more useful.