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Volcanic Panic is based on the curriculum goals stated by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; designed to develop fluency in basic math skills across the Number & Operations, strengthening both computational skills and conceptual understanding.

Learning numeracy basics will put your child on the pathway to success with a solid math foundation.

Volcanic Panic questions challenge the mathematical processes that students need to apply their content knowledge – this enhances reasoning skills and develops flexible problem solving strategies.

Essential topics and fun learning

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For Teaching

Variety of learning styles: Volcanic Panic caters for a variety of learning styles. Different question formats ensure topics are covered from various angles.

math activities have been created to help teachers assess whether students have met specific curriculum and teaching outcomes for the Numbers Strand.

User-management & record keeping: The game-save option enables multiple game sessions, networkable administration and record-keeping covering up to 2,048 users and up to 512 groups!

Custom Content: Specific math categories or levels may be selected to drill individual players (eg Subtraction & Division). Practice one level or category of math questions, or choose as many as you want. All categories and levels can be separately activated or deactivated.

Each player works from their own specific set of math questions. This means that Jenny (Grade 2) can challenge Alvin (Grade 6) in the same game and have the same chance of winning.

Questions may also be presented outside gameplay in the 'Questions Only' section.

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Curriculum References

Volcanic Panic supports the curriculum goals stated by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Principles & Standards for School Mathematics:

'Students must be fluent in arithmetic computation – they must have efficient and accurate methods, and understand them. Students should know their basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division combinations'.

'Technology is essential in teaching and learning mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and enhances student learning. It needs to be used wisely, by well-informed teachers, to support understanding.'

Download the Math curriculum summary by clicking on the relevent link below. This is listed together with the Game Level at which the relevant Content can be found.

US Curriculum Documents

General Curriculum Documents


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'What is brilliant about Volcanic Panic is that it teaches the language of maths – less than, more than, after etc. rather than just the number bonds. My 6 year-old is autistic and is very able on the latter, but struggles with the language. He absolutely loves this game and is learning without realising it.'
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