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Exploring numbers by exploring a house.

Melody's Math Mansion: A large green cartoon house with many windows and a flower box by the front door. A duck, green dragon, bat, and tiger striped car surround the House.

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In Melody’s Math Mansion children explore math concepts with counters. Each room has a different activity. Count animals as they make a mess of a bedroom. Follow a recipe for vegetable soup. Get a spider ready to play outside (1 boot per leg). Count peg people driving away in a car. Divide up pretzels evenly on plates.

Allows children to explore quantity, one-to-one correspondence and counting. Demonstrates the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) with counters (visual objects to move around). A slow paced, low pressure way to explore math.

Learn through Exploration

a side view cutout of a house showing rooms on two floors

  • counting
  • addition
  • one to one correspondence
  • subtraction
  • multiplication
  • division
  • grids
  • shape and rotation

Playroom

game screenshot showing a bookcase with toy animals, a blue rug, and a window shade with totals. Several toys are out on the rug.

Six different kinds of counters in the playroom. This rug helps you build addition facts. Or rearrange them in however you want. Dragons and ducks can wear hats. The shade keeps count of what's out.

Bedroom

screenshot showing a bed, dresser, and a closet with hanging clothes and 3 fish in it. A speech bubble says 'Now add 5 fish to the closet. Press go when you are finished'

Help tell a silly story to practice addition.

Attic

Screenshot showing an assortment of counters, boxes and a green bucket.

Explore junk in the attic. Count objects. Put them in a bucket.

Kitchen

Screenshot showing a black kettle on a burner and a table with ingredients layed out. A speech bubble says 'Now pub two eggs in the pot'.

Follow the recipe to cook food.

Stairs

Screenshot showing stairs labelled 1 to 10. The first 3 stairs have green treads, the rest are yellow.

Count the stairs as you climb.

Entryway

Screenshot with a monkey wearing a mitten and a hat, a door, a hat stand and shelf unit holding boots and mittens. A speech bubble says 'Help Mindy put on 4 mittens and a hat'

Practice one-to-one correspondance and counting when you dress the animals to go outside.

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Attic

a green cabinet full of pink boxes. Several empty boxes with rows of carrots next to them.

In the attic is the the Magic cabinet. Choose your counters and how many per box. Open the cabinet to find the boxes. Helps model multiplication.

Melody's Math Mansion: $2.99

A whole house to explore.

Melody's Math Mansion Lite: free

Just the playroom floor to see if you like the style.

Coming Soon for iPad and Android™.

Office

screenshot showing pens, pencils and ducks arranged on a desktop

In the office counters can be arranged, rotated and put in drawers.

Playroom Table

screenshot showing peg people and a toy car on a table

On the playroom table we model subtractions. Fill the car and it drives away. See how many people are left.

Dining Room

Screenshot showing plates, carrots and a speech bubble saying 'Keep Trying. Put the same number on each plate'

Serve up snacks in the dining room to practice division. Options for with or without remainders.

Bathroom

Screenshot of ducks on a grid. A bucket labelled with a duck in one corner

Rubber ducks on the tile floor of the bathroom. Arrange ducks on a grid. Build multiplication or graphing.

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