NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ready for a brain booster from your favorite math show? Cyberchase Math Match, a new app for iPhone and iPod Touch, offers an incredibly fun way for kids 8 years and older to test their math mettle.
“Cyberchase Math Match is a fun and engaging way to learn basic math facts – once you start playing, it’s hard to stop!”
Developed by Cyberchase, the Emmy Award®-winning animated math series and website for 8- to 11-year-olds on PBS KIDS GO!, and Lima Sky, the team behind the runaway hit app Doodle Jump, Cyberchase Math Match tests young players’ basic math facts.
In classic memory game style, kids tap tiles in Cyberchase Math Match to pair up math problems with their solutions, along with pairs of favorite Cyberchase characters. To keep players coming back, the game becomes a little more difficult with each successive play, and tracks high scores and best times to encourage competition.
“We’ve been developing award-winning interactive content at Cyberchase Online for years, and we’re excited to be offering our first opportunity for kids to ‘play math’ on the go,” says Frances Nankin, Cyberchase Executive Producer. “Cyberchase Math Match is a fun and engaging way to learn basic math facts – once you start playing, it’s hard to stop!”
“When the opportunity to team with Cyberchase came along, I couldn’t pass it up,” said Igor Pusenjak, president and founder of Lima Sky. “We took what we know about making successful, popular, and totally fun apps, and added a Cyberchase math twist. We’re thrilled with the product, and we think young fans will be hooked.”
Now a pop-cultural phenomenon, Lima Sky’s Doodle Jump is one of the best selling iPhone apps of all time. Pusenjak was recently named by Fast Company as #14 on their annual list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business, and #10 on Business Insider’s Silicon Alley 100: New York’s Coolest Tech People in 2010.
Likewise, Cyberchase, now in it’s eighth year of broadcast on PBS KIDS GO!, has consistently proven its track record in creating effective media for kids. Several independent studies have confirmed that Cyberchase TV episodes and related interactive games significantly strengthen children’s mathematics learning.
Cyberchase Math Match is available now on the App Store for $0.99: http://bit.ly/cyberchase-math-match. Optimized for the iPhone 4 Retina Display and iPod Touch, it’s also playable on the iPad. Periodic updates will unveil more secret images and math problems.
For more about Cyberchase visit www.pbskidsgo.org/cyberchase. For more about Lima Sky visit www.limasky.com.
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About Lima Sky
Lima Sky is an award-winning development studio dedicated to creating entertaining, innovative and educational iOS games and apps, with a special focus on the youth market. Founded in July 2008 by Igor Pusenjak, a graduate and faculty at the MFA interactive design program at Parsons School of Design in New York, and Marko Pusenjak, a veteran mobile applications developer, Lima Sky has established itself as a leading independent publisher for the iOS platform.
About Cyberchase
Cyberchase—the Emmy Award®-winning animated series and website—is the only mathematics project for school-age kids using broadcast, web, new media and educational outreach to impact millions nationwide. Designed for children ages 8 to 11 and packed with mystery, humor, and action, Cyberchase’s mission is to improve kids’ problem-solving and math skills, and inspire them with confidence and enthusiasm toward math. The TV series airs daily on PBS KIDS GO! across the country (check local listings) and Cyberchase Online (pbskidsgo.org/cyberchase) offers over 100 math games for kids. Cyberchase is produced by THIRTEEN in association with WNET. Executive producers are Sandra Sheppard, THIRTEEN’s director of Children’s and Educational Programming, and Frances Nankin. Major funding for Cyberchase is provided by the National Science Foundation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Ernst & Young LLP and PBS. Additional funding is provided by The Volckhausen Family.
About WNET.ORG
New York public media company WNET.ORG is a pioneering provider of television and web content. The parent of THIRTEEN, WLIW21 and Creative News Group, WNET.ORG brings such acclaimed broadcast series and websites as Need To Know, Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Charlie Rose, Secrets of the Dead, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Visions, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack, Miffy and Friends, Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps and Cyberchase to national and international audiences. Through its wide range of channels and platforms, WNET.ORG serves the entire New York City metro area with unique local productions, broadcasts and innovative educational and cultural projects. In all that it does, WNET.ORG pursues a single, overarching goal – to create media experiences of lasting significance for New York, America and the world. For more information, visit www.wnet.org.
About PBS KIDS GO!
PBS KIDS GO! offers early elementary children the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television, online and community-based programs. For more information on specific PBS KIDS GO! programs supporting literacy, science, math and more, visit PBS.org/pressroom.
