What's New

KosmicMath turns one and releases version 1.5

Since its inaugural release, we have made several iterative releases to improve the user experience. Version 1.5 provides support for the Retina displays on the iPhone / iPOD Touch devices and corrects a minor planet animation glitch that was present on the iPAD Pre-School / Kindergarden mode. We continue to focus on improving the end user experience through out this release correcting reported bugs and adding features.

–UPDATED: Mission enrollment can be directly accessed from the options screen
–UPDATED: Visual feedback of UI interaction on answer selection
–UPDATED: Mission enrollment form will remember your email address
–NEW: End of mission reset to ensure that KosmicMath is ready for next mission - saving state and clearing all planet flags

Speaking of features - we have been busily gathering feature requests on our way to our next major release - thank you all for your input and continued support.

KosmicMath captivates children to master their math tables while providing parents and educators with reporting and performance measurement tools. KosmicMath offers a practice mode (space mission) and a drill mode (pop quiz). In mission mode, players are urged to demonstrate mastery over basic mathematical operations as they travel through the solar system collecting alien trophies and visiting NASA web sites. In Drill mode, players are given a pop quiz which is individually scored, emailed and archived along with the problem set, player answers and statistics about the players responses. Data from mission mode and drill mode is saved for each player, synchronized to other iPhone, iPOD-Touch or iPAD devices and archived into the KosmicMath WEB portal for parent and teacher analysis of player performance.


Parents who provide a valid email address will receive email notification of promotions, achievements and drills as they happen. In addition they may log onto the KosmicMath web site www.kosmicmath.com and view summary performance graphs and performance details for their child’s mathematical development. Each mission and drill taken can be reviewed in summary and detail form on the WEB site.

App Description

Single Player - Single Grade version of the KosmicMath product family which supports the educational scope and sequence learning requirements for: 4th grade on the iPhone/iPOD-Touch. (see KosmicMath 4th Grade HD for iPAD version).

KosmicMath reinforces the scope and sequence learning requirements by presenting problems appropriate to this grade level according to:

Number range for problems: 0 -to- 9,999
– Addition Facts: 0-9,999 : (required for promotion in all levels)
– Subtraction Facts: 0-9,999 : (required for promotion in all levels)
– Multiplication Facts: 0-99 ((required for promotion in all levels)
– Division Facts: < 10,000 (required for promotion in all levels)

At this grade level, KosmicMath presents problems as stacked (vertical) mathematical problems. (A) operand (B) = (answer)

KosmicMath is a space exploration game that uses NASA imagery, themed animations and sound affects creating an immersive educational experience. Two modes of play, Mission and Drill, encourage children to master their math tables and chart their progress.

In mission mode, players are urged to demonstrate mastery over basic mathematical operations as they travel through the solar system collecting alien trophies and visiting NASA web sites. In Drill mode, players are given a pop quiz which is individually scored, emailed and archived along with the problem set, player answers and statistics about the players responses. Data from mission mode and drill mode is saved for each player, synchronized to other iPhone, iPOD-Touch or iPAD devices and archived into the KosmicMath WEB portal for parent and teacher analysis of player performance.

At the heart of KosmicMath is a proprietary problem generation algorithm which mimics human instruction, by generating problems that are always appropriate to the player’s grade and experience level. KosmicMath’s problem generation algorithm tracks all student success and failures - constantly adjusting to each players’ unique learning requirements.  The KosmicMath problem generation engine automatically adjusts the player’s difficulty and settings as they progress through 25 increasing levels of challenge.

Children are promoted when scoring 80% or higher across all required operands for their grade level. Promotion increases the problem number size and problem difficulty by reducing the amount of time allowed for answering the problem. In addition, the number of correct problems is increased as the student shows proficiency in the lower number sets; thus continually challenging the student towards demonstrated mastery of their elementary math tables. KosmicMath supports 5 promotion levels: Cadet, Navigator, Co-Pilot, Commander and Admiral.

KosmicMath Features
– Two modes of operation: Mission & Drill  
– Multi-level reward system encourages continued play  
– Problems generated follow the Scope and Sequence operation and number sets approximating the school year
– Problem generation algorithm will not generate problems outside of a students current grade and experience level
– Problem generation algorithm self monitors student performance and adjusts difficulty striving for mastery
– Detailed and summary performance tracking by player
– Email notifications of progress and rewards
– Email notification of completed drills with problems and player answers
– Player roaming capability -- allows players to pickup any licensed KosmicMath device and continue their play where the last left off..

Parents who provide a valid email address will receive email notification of promotions, achievements and drills as they happen. In addition they may log onto the KosmicMath web site www.kosmicmath.com and view summary performance graphs and performance details for their child’s mathematical development. Each mission and drill taken can be reviewed in summary and detail form on the WEB site.

iPhone Screenshots

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KosmicMath 4th Grade screenshot 1 KosmicMath 4th Grade screenshot 2 KosmicMath 4th Grade screenshot 3 KosmicMath 4th Grade screenshot 4 KosmicMath 4th Grade screenshot 5

App Changes

  • November 22, 2011 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
  • December 18, 2011 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99

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