Hi Product Hunt. I made Math Charm with my 9-year-old son. Kids ask for the phone. Saying no can turn into an argument, and saying yes often ends in short videos. Math Charm gives you one more answer: "let's play a game." How it started My son and I were working through Ben Orlin's Math Games with Bad Drawings together. The games are great on paper, but they need both players at the same table and a grown-up who can explain the math. In late August we put the first one online: Sprouts, invented by John Conway and Michael Paterson at Cambridge in 1967. How it grew Six weeks later there are four games: Sprouts, Ultimate tic-tac-toe, Penny Wise and Franco maze. Play on one screen, or open a room and send the link to someone in another home. Every game has a computer opponent. After each game, a page explains the math in plain words, so a parent who was never a math person can still talk it through. Log in and you can step back through a game move by move. What I'd love from you It's free, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no sign-up to play. Try a game with your kid, then tell me which one they picked and what was confusing. More games are on the way. We hope kids play for a while and start to like math along the way.

Math Charm

Play math games with your child, then read the math inside

Play math games with your child, then read the math inside