The Math Ninja app for the iPhone, iTouch and the iPad plays more like a video game than most educational apps I have tried. I think that tweens will have an easier time at it than their parents for that reason. Teens might even enjoy playing Math Ninja, while brushing up on basic math skills at the same time.

Just as in video games, story and strategy are a big part of Math Ninja. From the game description, "Use a combination of action, strategy, and quick wit to defend your treehouse against a hungry tomato and his robotic army!" Tweens will need to solve math equations to move up levels. Getting the right answers will be of utmost importance to them.

You can get a glimpse of the game in this short video:



Math Ninja has different levels of difficulty and you can customize the questions for your kids. There is a free app and one for $1.99. From what I can tell there doesn't seem to be a very big difference between them. And, by the way, the Math Ninja app is in HD, to help intrigue your tweens even more. This game really does make math fun.

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