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We’re Teach Your Monster, a non-profit that creates magical, fun-filled learning games for kids.
With the help of friendly monsters, playful design and out-of-this-world storytelling, we work with leading academics to create beautifully crafted games kids love to play.
Trusted by teachers and parents, our innovative products aim to engage even the most reluctant of learners.
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We’re part of The Usborne Foundation — a charity set up by Peter Usborne CBE of Usborne Publishing to support early years learning.
We believe every child should have the opportunity to reach their full potential in early years and beyond.
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The Teach Your Monster story
Usborne Publishing is an independent, family-run business which has been sparking children’s curiosity and love of reading around the world since 1973. In 2011, company founder Peter Usborne CBE, along with his daughter Nicola and son Martin established the Usborne Foundation with the aim of developing creative and innovative responses to the biggest challenges facing early years education.
The start of this journey was the creation of Teach Your Monster to Read, a game that would come to help over 30 million children on the first crucial steps of their reading journey. Since launch it has been played over 300 million times, helps two million children learn to read every month and received BAFTA nominations in 2013 and 2015.
In 2021 we changed our name to Teach Your Monster to represent our growing family of games. We are now helping children tackle a diverse range of learning challenges in new and exciting ways, from numeracy to nutrition.
As an organisation we are proud of our methodology which puts children at the center of the creative process. Our creative teams are given support to become experts in the chosen field working in close collaboration with expert educational advisors. Player testing in classrooms is built into the process from the very start.
All this comes together in beautifully crafted stories, compelling characters and engaging game play as we create learning adventures that kids will come want to come back to play again and again.
Who do we work with?
We take the process of making our games and creating our monsters very seriously. We bring together world-leading education experts working to work in close collaboration with highly creative talent from diverse backgrounds — game developers, animators, designers, authors and musicians.
Our long-standing relationship with Roehampton University has helped us understand early years literacy and are expanding to work with other academic partners as we build into new areas of learning.
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We are always looking for great people to collaborate with as we build and develop our games. We operate an ongoing recruitment process to help us find new talent and diversify our teams. You can find out more about this on our openings page.
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Math games for children 4, 5, 6, 7 years old
The math game "Subtraction Examples up to 10 - Falling Apples" is designed for children from 5 years old.
Here the child must test his ability to solve examples for subtraction within 10. Also ...
The mathematical game "Ordinal counting of objects" is suitable for children aged 5 years and older, it consists of 10 levels and will turn out to be a kind of simulator for children while learning to count within 10....
We present to your attention another educational math game "Addition and subtraction up to 10" for young children from Bibushi the Fox, in which the kid will be able to solve eight new problems.
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The math game "Find the numbers in the picture" is designed for toddlers who are learning to count from 1 to 10. There are 2 tasks in this game. In the first task, the child must find all the numbers that are hidden...
Math online game "Problems-examples for kids in pictures" consists of eight problems and is suitable for children who learn to count up to 10. In three levels of the game, the child will solve problems on ...
Mathematics tasks Grade 1
Here you will find an exciting and colorful online game for children "Counting from 1 to 10 - Count the pictures and choose the number".
When a child learns to count up to 10, it is extremely important to constantly train, ...
Developing math game "Find the smallest and largest number" is designed for preschool children who are just starting to master mathematics. In this online game, the child must...
Math game "Sea World. Counting for Toddlers from 1 to 10" is designed especially for kids who are learning to count up to 10. In the game you need to complete several tasks, each of which...
Learn marine animals
The math game "New Year's Examples from 1 to 10" is designed for preschoolers who are preparing for school and learning to solve examples up to 10.
In this game, you need to help the snowman solve examples, ...
All for the New Year
The math game "Counting for Toddlers - Count Objects" is designed for children from 4 years old who are already learning to count up to 10. In this game, the child must complete several tasks, in each of them ...
Today we have prepared for you a mathematical game "Smart Train" - Examples for addition up to 10. This game is intended for children of senior preschool and primary school age.
The game is divided...
What to read? Books, games, applications about mathematics
What to read? Books, games, applications about mathematics
What to read? Books, games, applications about mathematics
What to read in the summer? Every year we traditionally publish a list of fiction from our teachers. But the summer is long, and it seems that not only stories about adventures and animals can fit in it, but also something else entertaining and at the same time useful.
We asked our teacher Nadezhda Martynova to recommend books and interesting activities for those who are interested in mathematics. Let's start with preschoolers and elementary school students.
So, what to read and solve this summer?
For the little ones:
- Genrikh Sapgir "The Adventures of Kubarik and Tomatic, or Merry Mathematics" (both parts)
A fairy tale book for preschoolers, in which general developmental tasks on logic are harmoniously woven.
- Evgenia Katz "Unusual Mathematics" and "Mathematics Plus"
Workbooks in which children from 5 to 10 years old can study independently. and enthusiastically performs them
For real schoolchildren:
- Elena Kozlova "Fairy Tales and Tips"
not enough school mathematics, I want to try myself in something complex and interesting.0053
- Inna Nikolskaya, Lyudmila Tigranova "Gymnastics for the Mind: A Book for Primary School Students"
Developing manual for elementary school students. Interesting and entertaining
involves logical, heuristic, creative thinking. At the end there are test tasks to test skills.
- Boris Druzhinin "Developmental tasks for children aged 7-12"
This book was born from many years of notes and notes about the mathematical circle, which the author led.
It will be interesting for students, parents and teachers. For parents - a source of games and activities with children, for students - the opportunity to feel at a real circle. The author shows how you can learn mathematics without noticing, competing, playing, experimenting.
- Grigory Oster "Problem book in Mathematics"
This book is full of real school assignments, but funny, story-driven, fascinating. There are no Olympiad exercises in it, but it is well suited for consolidating and repeating the material for schoolchildren in grades 2-4.
- Boris Geidman, Irina Misharina "Preparation for Mathematical Olympiad Grades 2−4"
A book on mathematics beyond the scope of the school curriculum. The material is divided by years of study and topics, it is possible to see the solution and the answer.
- Vladimir Levshin "Three days in Karlikanii"
Fairy tale, textbook and adventure in one book.
Together with the heroes you will find yourself in an amazing country, a journey through which will expand your mathematical horizons and introduce you to new concepts. It will also give you new knowledge about numbers: you will learn how they appeared and how they were used in different parts of the world.
For advanced:
- Lev Gendenstein "Alice in the Land of Mathematics"
In this wonderful book, you will meet again with the characters of the fairy tales of Lewis Carroll. Together with Alice you will travel through the country of Mathematics: solve non-standard mathematical problems using creative and logical thinking. You can read a fairy tale, or you can solve problems and test yourself.
- "Mathematical Olympiads in the land of fairy tales"
Collection of non-standard tasks for elementary and secondary schools. Each spread is a set of tasks with plots from some fairy tale.
Colorful design, at the end of the book there are answers. The exercises are ordered from the easiest to the most difficult.
- Nikolai Gol, Konstantin Knop Poreshaika. Stories-riddles for children»
Book-journey, book-adventure, book-investigation. The heroes of history help those they meet on their way. To do this, they have to solve problems, come up with non-standard moves, apply mathematical knowledge.
- Igor Sharygin "Grandpa Gavrila's Lessons, or Developing Holidays"
A book about how mathematical knowledge is passed down through the generation. Grandfather asks his grandson Fedya different tasks, puzzles, teaches him how to get out of difficult situations. Assignments are organically woven into the narrative, they are fun and varied, some are solved immediately, some you have to think carefully. There are explanations and answers at the end of the book. For children who have completed grades 3-4.
But not only books can make this summer even more exciting and “more mathematical”. Here's how you can develop your skills during the holidays:
Darts.
It is useful to play it to practice mental counting when you add up points.
Board games
For training strategic thinking and counting skills: Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride. Games in which you need not only to count, but also to think a few steps ahead: Azul, "Forbidden Island". And also "Lamb", "Set", Ubongo will help develop logical thinking and speed.
Magnetic puzzles to take on the go: Cheese Loopholes, Noah's Ark, Business Bugs.
This is a small square puzzle notebook with a magnetic base and details inside. The meaning of all games is this: the picture shows the location of some parts, you need to arrange the rest of the puzzle so that the condition is met. It develops logical thinking, mathematical intuition, teaches compact and reasonable enumeration, teaches you to look for options with which it is better to start a solution.
Smart notepad (for grades 1-2). These are thematic notebooks, each of them contains about 70 tasks (one page - one task). In the series "75 Puzzles", "75 Sudoku and Magic Squares" and many others.
Smartphone or tablet app.
- Puzzlerama Puzzle Collection. Beautifully designed large collection of puzzles of different difficulty levels.
- Lightbot Coding and Programming (paid application). Gives basic programming skills, teaches you how to build algorithms, introduces you to cycles and repetitions.
- Parking Jam 3D . A fascinating puzzle about sequential analysis of an overloaded parking lot: you need to help the cars that blocked each other's way pass.
- Play Magnus. A good app for playing chess at the level you are comfortable with.
We also have a mathematics club led by Nadezhda Martynova and a team consisting of teachers from the New School and leading mathematical schools in Moscow, as well as HSE graduates: https://club.
n.school/course_mathematics
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