Calculator 2: The Game helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Flexibility

Adapting and adjusting to changing conditions and expectations.

Even though math, in general, follows set patterns and formulas, this game requires the player to be flexible. It asks the player to try using certain buttons in different orders. It gives the player new functions and combinations of functions. It even, eventually, gives the player more than one target number. In other words, the player must try new things and adapt to changes on a frequent basis. If they don’t, they won’t be able to solve the level and move on to a new one.

Planning

Developing and retaining information in our minds while working.

Players also need to plan out their moves before they start tapping on the buttons. It’s important for them to solve the entire problem first, because three plus three times four is not going to give them the same answer as three plus four times three. They will also be working on short-term planning skills because each of these problems only has three or four moves (or button pushes) that the player has to plan out. If they aren’t using these planning skills they simply won’t be able to get the right answer and move on.