Symmetry Shuffle

* 2010 Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - Children'sTechnology Review *

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Education	$1.99	Carstens Studios Inc.	iPad

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"This is an ideal elementary geometry enrichment activity that is fun enough to keep either kids or adults playing."
- Children'sTechnology Review

"It's my new favorite puzzle game to play when I have a few minutes."

"Everyone with an iPad should get this game...beautifully designed and super delicious!"

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A Slide, Flip, and Turn Puzzle

Symmetry Shuffle is a “Math Doodles” recreational math puzzle for the iPad that will sharpen your spatial reasoning and get your neurons sparking. It takes only minutes to learn and months to master, but beware, once you start playing you may never see things the same!

The world of math is not limited to numbers only.
Spatial reasoning and geometry are important elements of mathematics. Mathematicians use symmetry and geometric modeling to analyze mathematical situations and solve problems.

This mathematical puzzle allows users to explore line and rotational symmetry, while developing their spatial sense to create strategies to help them solve problems.
THE PUZZLE: Target designs are arranged on the screen in random orientations. Use turns (rotations), flips (reflections), and slides (translations) to move and match a figure over the target images. A level is completed when all of the target designs have been matched There are two modes of play, solve and race.

SOLVE MODE: Solve puzzles with the fewest moves, without the pressure of racing a count down timer. Choose from 12 different puzzle designs, 5 game board layouts, and 2 difficulty levels.

RACE MODE: Race the clock and get as many points as you can before time runs out. Complete the puzzles, to earn bonus time, and to advance to harder levels.

MATH GOALS:

· Predict and describe the results of sliding, flipping, and turning two-dimensional shapes
· Identify and describe line and rotational symmetry in two-dimensional shapes and designs.
· Examine the congruence, similarity, and line or rotational symmetry of objects using transformations.
· Problem Solving
· Mathematical Reasoning
· Math Enjoyment

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www.mathdoodles.com

Please take a look at these other Math Doodle apps:

MATH DOODLES - iPad App

SUMS STACKER - iPhone/iPodTouch

CONNECT SUMS - iPhone/iPodTouch

coming soon
Unknown Square - iPhone/iPodTouch

Reviews

My New Favorite Puzzle Game (Oh, and it's good for MATH!)
Game Lab Mom

First off, this game is fun! It's my new favorite puzzle game to play when I have a few minutes. The art is fun and colorful. The little features, like the way the clock moves around the outside of the game, really add to the whole gameplay experience. I love that I can race the clock, or set up a puzzle with different graphics and many different options to increase the difficulty. Symmetry and mathematics are linked: increasing our ability to recognize and think in symmetrical patterns help us think about geometry and algebra.

Excellent math game
shawcago

Fun, easy to learn and challenging to play, with a unique graphic design. As a fifth-grade teacher, I have been searching for high-quality games like this to share with my students and they are hard to find (the games, that is, not my students), so I am pleased to discover this one...hope the developer has more on the way!

My son loves it!
Clemson94

I bought this on the recommendation of an article I read on the best apps for kids. I had my doubts that it would interest my boys but they LOVE IT! It is such a challenge, they get addicted....they get competitive with it, like its the game or them! They can complete puzzles in minutes that takes me a half hour! very challenging, involves critical thinking, GREAT!

Fun with visual math
edugameplayer

I love this app. Beautiful art, fun to play, great design execution of the concept. Bravo!

Love it
Mary T 1965

Love this app it keeps me and my students thinking - disappointed that I didn't wait for the free offer.

Great little App, a must have for puzzlers, noodlers and doodlers
Crenshaw Family

As a graphic artist and game designer something new and refreshing is hard to come by, and yet here this game is. What is even rarer is a game I cant find a single flaw with and wish I had come up with myself. Try it you will not regret it. Now since I set the iPad down to write this my 5 year old has scooped in and is playing Symmetry Shuffle, I'm not sure I get back to it anytime soon, she likes it more than I do.

We love this app!
labargmd

In addition to just being beautiful and well-designed, it is fun to play over and over. My wife and I are playing it competitively (against each other), and as we gradually get better, we've realized that we are really acquiring intuitive stuff about symmetry. This is really a gem. Thanks, Daren! Hope you port more of your doodle games to iPad.

Too hard for younger kids
megbowen

Great app for kids over 8, mine is 5 and way too hard for her...

Best Game Ever
Kt'smom511

I love this game and my students love this game!! I also have his other game SumsStacker and the kids love it too. I'm looking forward to other games!!