CAMathories 3 Little Pigs app for iPhone and iPad

Fun and interactive animated stories and games designed, written, and reviewed by a team of renowned early childhood education researchers, mathematicians, and scientists from the University of Cambridge to teach young children mathematics! Each CAMathories™ game also contains a series of teaching notes to help parents to teach their children mathematics based on the content of the games as well as real-life situation. CAMathories™ provide a brand new experience of teaching mathematics to young children and make them love learning mathematics. Wish you happy CAMathoring!

CAMathories™ are thoughtfully written, designed and tested by a dedicated team of early childhood education researchers, mathematicians and scientists, please visit www.CAMathories.com to learn more about the team.

Extensive research has shown that young children learn about mathematics best when they solve problems that attract their interest. Using well-loved tales, with familiar characters and settings as a starting point helps to give children confidence and ensures that they feel comfortable as they learn.

When these stories, and the games and puzzles embedded within them, are shared by children and their parents (or other caregivers), they will encourage children to talk about their ideas in mathematics. Such discussions are vitally important in enabling young children to acquire a firm grasp of basic mathematical processes.

Our CAMathories™ are based on these principles, derived from sound research.

This third one of our CAMathories™, designed for 3-5 year old children, tells the tale of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. Will the wolf catch the little pigs and eat them all up. Or will the pigs survive and turn the tables on the naughty wolf?

This telling of this well-loved fairy tale involves young children in helping the pigs to build their houses and, after some narrow escapes, finally defeat the big bad wolf, who comes to a very hot and tasty end.

The maths games and puzzles involved in this little adventure involve the children in:
• working with sorting clothing into the matching sizes,
• counting and sharing silver coins fairly,
• doing simple subtraction,
• building houses in the correct sequence
• finding where the wolf is hiding using position words
• counting how many puffs it takes to blow down the pigs houses.

General notes on the CAMathories™ website provide guidance for how to play the games with your children so that they have fun and learn some valuable maths skills. Each game in the story is accompanied with brief notes about under these 3 headings:

This game helps your child to learn about
(explaining the maths behind the game)

Talk about
(suggesting maths language you can introduce when talking about the game)

More ways to help
(giving examples of playful ways of extending the learning)

The icon of Notes for each game is at the top right-hand corner of the screen. Click on it and the notes will pop up on the screen.