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As far as educational screentime goes, my child has learned addition, subtraction, and multiplication purely from Number Blocks. To the point where we have to do supplemental learning because the fellow kindergarteners are just learning numbers and letters.



I don't think this is the own you think it might be.

Our oldest child's kindergarten class (at a very rural, poor school) was doing multiplication and division within the first month, because they all attended a pre-k that encouraged the use of educational games, like Prodigy for math.

Like everything, It's what is on the screen and how the child is using it and how involved the parents can be. Number blocks are the same way. They're a great way to learn basic reading and writing, if that's how the parents use it; they are also a great chew toy without some input from the parents.


What part is supposed to be an own? I think number blocks is a fantastic program given the alternatives. Makes math fun for the kids.


Numberblocks is such a good show! We made an exception to our no-cartoons policy for this one and I don't regret it.




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