{"id":13319,"date":"2016-07-04T11:03:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T18:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/?p=13319"},"modified":"2016-09-08T09:01:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T16:01:17","slug":"open-letter-to-parents-rocket-math-home-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/open-letter-to-parents-rocket-math-home-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Open letter to parents: Rocket Math HOME Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Parents,<\/p>\n

I designed the Rocket Math Apps to help children LEARN math facts such as 9 + 7 or 6 x 9.\u00a0 Most apps have students randomly practice math facts, but aren\u2019t much help in learning the facts in the first place!\u00a0 The Rocket Math App is different because your child will be successful from the start and will gradually learn all the facts in each operation\u2014without noticing!\u00a0 They will play the app, but as they progress through the Levels A to Z<\/strong> they will LEARN all of the facts in sequence. Children will learn them well enough so that they don\u2019t have to count on their fingers or stop to figure out the answer.\u00a0 They will know the facts automatically so they can get on with the rest of learning math.\u00a0 Take it from a long-time educator, they will begin to enjoy math once they stop struggling with figuring out facts, like this young man\u00a0is doing.<\/p>\n

\"HOME<\/a>\u00a0Try it risk free<\/u>!<\/strong> I don\u2019t expect you to take my word for this.\u00a0 If you download Rocket Math Addition HOME or Rocket Math Multiplication HOME you won\u2019t have to pay up front.\u00a0 Your child can try out the app and pass levels up through Level K for free.\u00a0 At that point your child has already mastered at least 36 basic facts.\u00a0 They are learning and probably enjoying it too!\u00a0 Then if your child wants to continue playing Rocket Math, we ask that you purchase the app for $2.99 through an in-app purchase.\u00a0 See the two icons to the left.\u00a0 Please look for these free versions of the Rocket Math apps with the word HOME in their name and on their icon.<\/p>\n


\nWhy do we have two apps?<\/u>\u00a0 I designed the Rocket Math Apps so that children couldn\u2019t skip around and avoid the \u201chard\u201d facts they need to learn.\u00a0 The App follows the same careful sequence in the paper-and-pencil version that has worked in schools have for over 15 years.\u00a0 Once a child starts on Addition, they have to follow the sequence through addition Level Z and into subtraction.\u00a0 The app can keep track of up to three children as they work through the levels.\u00a0 We have two apps because you may have another child who needs to work on Multiplication and Division.\u00a0 Now you can download Rocket Math Multiplication HOME for that other child and your children can each proceed through their own sequence and take turns working on the same device.<\/p>\n

Why do children have to take a 30-minute \u201cbattery recharge<\/u>?\u201d\u00a0 So they continue to keep playing and learning the facts until they finish Level Z and know all the facts.\u00a0 Through field testing of the Rocket Math Apps before publishing it, we found that children would keep playing for TOO LONG and wore themselves out.\u00a0 (Learning is hard mental work!)\u00a0 Children who played too long stopped playing the app and stopped learning!\u00a0 Now that they can only play for five minutes at a time, they are happy to open the app after the break and do another five minutes of learning.\u00a0\u00a0 Take it from an education professor, learning that is spaced out like this, through short practice sessions over many days or weeks is THE BEST WAY TO LEARN.<\/p>\n

Thanks!\u00a0 And here\u2019s to solving the problem of counting on your fingers to do math!<\/p>\n

Sincerely, Dr. Don<\/strong><\/p>\n

PS. \u00a0Here’s a link to download a copy of this letter <\/a><\/span>to share with parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Parents, I designed the Rocket Math Apps to help children LEARN math facts such as 9 + 7 or 6 x 9.\u00a0 Most apps have students randomly practice math facts, but aren\u2019t much help in learning the facts in the first place!\u00a0 The Rocket Math App is different because your child will be successful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":15978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[35,43,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15999,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319\/revisions\/15999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}