Squishy Math School
Multiplication & division · Grades 3–4
Six games, one set of facts. Students win squishy friends for every table they master, and every miss comes back as a said-aloud fact. You get a class roster, assignments, and a mastery grid.
Teachers and parents sign up free and add their kids. Kids log in with a class or family code and a PIN, on the web or in the iPhone and iPad app. Just play needs no account.
How it works
Name it, and you get a class code for the board. Turn on Double Points Day or a class leaderboard whenever you like.
Drop in a .csv or .xlsx with names. We generate usernames and 4-digit PINs, show you a preview, and give you printable login cards. Or paste names one per line.
Assign a world or specific tables with a due date. Mark it ×2 points or extra credit. Students log in once on any device and their progress follows them.
The games
Every world drills the 1s through 12s. What changes is the task, so a student who has memorized 7 × 8 also has to find the missing factor, spot multiples, and divide.
Tap or type the product. Twelve questions per table, both orders (7 × 4 and 4 × 7).
Fact recall. Nine of twelve right earns the table's squishy friend; a perfect round earns a golden one.
A miss shows the fact, says it aloud, requires the student to tap "say it," and re-asks it a few questions later.
A 60-second sprint. Each right answer pushes the rocket higher.
Speed on facts the student already knows. Twelve right in a minute earns a space buddy.
Timed play is unlocked and assigned by you, never required. Misses simply show the answer and move on.
Find the missing factor: 7 × ? = 56.
The unknown-factor form of division. Same twelve-question round, same friends-for-mastery rule.
Students who can only recite forwards get stuck here, which is exactly the gap this world closes.
Feed the monster only numbers from the table. Six multiples hide among ten decoys, three rounds.
Recognizing multiples and near-misses (41 vs 42) rather than producing a single answer.
Decoys are built from neighboring products, so guessing by "looks about right" does not work.
56 ÷ 7 = ? with choices from 1 to 12, or typed.
Division facts within 100, paired with the multiplication facts the student already has.
The voice says "56 divided by 7 is 8" on every miss, and the fact is re-asked in the same round.
Five short puzzle types: Skip Count, True or False, Bigger Bubble, Mystery Number, Balance the Scale. A Daily Puzzle runs one of each.
Patterns in the table, equivalence (3 × 8 = 4 × ?), comparison, and reasoning from clues.
Puzzles are the natural extra-credit assignment: short, varied, and hard to brute-force.
Standards alignment
California's adopted mathematics standards are the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CA CCSSM). The Grade 3 Operations and Algebraic Thinking cluster is the core of this app; two Grade 4 standards cover the pattern and multiples work.
| Game | What the student does | CA CCSSM standard(s) | Mathematical practices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Squishy Land | Produces products for one table, in both orders | 3.OA.C.73.OA.B.5 | MP6, MP8 |
| Rocket Rush | Produces known products under a light time limit (teacher-assigned) | 3.OA.C.7 | MP6 |
| Deep Dive | Finds the unknown factor in a × ? = c | 3.OA.A.43.OA.B.6 | MP1, MP7 |
| Division Dash | Finds quotients within 100 for one divisor | 3.OA.A.23.OA.C.7 | MP6, MP8 |
| Monster Munch | Identifies which numbers are multiples of a one-digit number | 4.OA.B.43.OA.D.9 | MP7 |
| Puzzle Corner: Skip Count | Fills the missing term in 7, 14, __, 28 | 3.OA.D.9 | MP7, MP8 |
| Puzzle Corner: Balance the Scale | Solves 3 × 8 = 4 × ? | 3.OA.B.53.OA.A.4 | MP1, MP7 |
| Puzzle Corner: Bigger Bubble | Compares two products (6 × 7 vs 5 × 9) | 4.OA.A.1 | MP1, MP6 |
| Puzzle Corner: Mystery Number | Finds a number from clues about its table, range, and parity | 4.OA.B.4 | MP1, MP7 |
| Puzzle Corner: True or False | Judges whether an equation is correct | 3.OA.C.7 | MP6 |
California's 2023 Mathematics Framework asks that fluency grow out of understanding, strategies, and practice with feedback, and it cautions against the anxiety that timed drills can produce. This app follows that lead: the default worlds have no clock, a miss always becomes a fact the student sees, hears, says, and meets again in the same round, and the one timed world (Rocket Rush) is something you choose to assign, not a gate students must pass.
Why it helps
For teachers and schools
iPhone & iPad app coming soon
The same squishy friends and the same 144 facts as a native app for practice at home. It plays offline, needs no account, and keeps purchases and links behind a grown-up check.
Questions
Teachers and parents: tap Sign up free, pick Teacher or Parent, and type your name, email and a password. You get a class (or a family) with its own code. Add your kids by name, and each one gets a 4-digit PIN. Kids don't sign up and don't need an email: they tap Log in, then I'm a kid, type the code, tap their name and type their PIN. The same code and PIN work in the iPhone and iPad app (Settings, then Sign in to save & sync), so progress follows them between school, home and the app.
It is built for third grade, where students are expected to know products of one-digit numbers from memory by the end of the year, and for fourth graders who still need fluency or the multiples work. The 11s and 12s go a little past the standard and are there because most classrooms teach them.
No. Each student gets a username and a PIN from your roster upload. They sign in once on a device and stay signed in.
At minimum a column of names. Columns named first, last (or a single name column), username, and password or PIN are recognized in any order. Anything you leave out is generated. You see a preview before students are created, and you can download login cards afterwards.
Once the game has loaded, it keeps working offline. Finished rounds are queued and sent to the class record the next time the device is online.
No. Rocket Rush unlocks after a student has earned a couple of friends, or when you assign it. Everything else has no clock. Misses in Rocket Rush are not penalized; they just show the answer.
Yes. Students can sign in with their class login at home. Parents can also make a free family account to add their own kids and follow their progress, and the free version needs no account at all.
Sign up free, add your students (or your own kids), and hand out the code. They can be earning their first squishy before the end of the period.