Building Bella and Pan with my daughter, Brooklyn, at BKRXY. Math practice through a storybook adventure.

Simon Dabkowski • Peerlist

Bella and Pan helps children practice math through a story they can play.Each correct answer moves Bella or Pan closer to bringing Pebble Village’s missing toys home. Children meet stuffed animal friends, help repair a bridge and sail across Goldtide Sea through three connected Chapters.Four difficulties let families choose by skill and confidence:1. Easy starts with addition, plus gentle subtraction in Kiko’s and Brooklyn’s challenges.2. Medium adds subtraction and missing numbers.3. Hard introduces multiplication and larger subtraction problems.4. Expert includes multiplication facts through 12, exact division, parentheses and order of operations.The questions grow more challenging within each difficulty. These are selected arithmetic skills from U.S. Kindergarten through 5th grade, and older children can revisit the foundations too. There’s no answer deadline. On regular questions, a wrong choice becomes unavailable and the child can try again without the answer being revealed.One purchase includes the complete Adventure. It works offline, with no ads, in app purchases or account. Progress and scores stay on the device. The written interface and story are available in English, Spanish, Polish, German and French; audio stays in its original language.Bella also comes along on Apple Watch, included with the same purchase. Choose Easy, Medium, Hard or Expert and solve five math questions in a short round. Review your answer time, attempts, score out of 100 and rank in separate local My Scores. Watch rounds and scores stay separate from the iPhone and iPad Adventure. The written Watch interface supports English, Spanish, Polish, German and French.The game began with my daughter Brooklyn’s drawings and our shared love of math. She draws the characters and makes up their stories. I build the game and add the math, then we play it together and work on what needs changing.Get Bella and Pan on the App Store:<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="break-all link-break text-gray-500 hover:underline" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bella-and-pan/id6795701835">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bella-and-pan/id6795701835</a>Brooklyn &amp; Dad