What’s It Like? Gracie and Friends Birthday Café is part of a package of free apps and off-screen learning activities for the preschool classroom. Kids match number of party guests with seats at a table, and number of food plates to hungry guests as they seat and serve food to Gracie and her diverse group of friends. To do this, kids must subitize for numbers up to five, or quickly determine how many objects are in a group without counting.
Price: Free
Grades: K
Pros: A great learning support system adapts to each kids’ learning needs.
Cons: Gameplay may get repetitive and there’s no option for creating multiple user accounts.
Bottom line: Super approach to teaching a very specific topic: Help kids develop an easy familiarity with quantities under five.