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Wasteland Chase is a math racing game: the child takes the wheel of an armored car on an endless desert highway, chased by 86 kinds of beasts. A correct answer fires the turret at the nearest one; every ~3 levels a new gun mounts up (30 in total). An energy shield wraps the car: while it holds your health is untouched, and once broken it recharges by itself.
How to play
Steer with the arrows to dodge the horde, read the task, tap the answer — the turret aims itself. Shoot off any beast clinging to the car: it has to break the shield before it can reach the hull.
What your child learns
Mental math without endless look-alike sums: 20 DIFFERENT kinds of tasks across 300 levels — comparing numbers with < and >, true and false equations, missing addends, number bonds, even and odd, number patterns and their rule, skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s, inequalities, place value and expanded form, rounding and estimating. Every new skill is explained on a card first, then it goes into battle.
The science behind the games
Every Dad4Kids game is built on one simple truth: children want to play, not study — so we turn learning into a game worth replaying. The method draws on peer-reviewed research in game-based learning, motivation, and how memory works.
- Tokac et al. (2019). Effects of game-based learning on students' mathematics achievement: A meta-analysis. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.
- Alotaibi (2024). Game-based learning in early childhood education: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology.
- Lampropoulos & Sidiropoulos (2024). Impact of gamification on students' learning outcomes and academic performance: a meta-analysis. Education Sciences.
- Taylor & Boyer (2019). Play-based learning: evidence-based research to improve children's learning experiences. Early Childhood Education Journal.
- Gottfried (1990). Academic intrinsic motivation in young elementary school children. Journal of Educational Psychology.
- Yang et al. (2018). Enhancing learning and retrieval of new information: a review of the forward testing effect. npj Science of Learning.
FAQ
Is it scary?
No. The beasts are goofy cartoon critters, each defeated in a silly way — shells flip, springs fly, feathers scatter. Nobody ever gets run over.
What math does Wasteland Chase cover?
It follows the Operations & Algebraic Thinking and Number & Operations in Base Ten strands: comparing and ordering numbers, the meaning of the equals sign, missing addends and unknown parts, number bonds, even and odd, patterns and their rules, skip counting, place value and expanded form, rounding and estimation. Times tables are not drilled as columns here — they show up inside pattern rules and skip counting.
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By Evgeny Arsentiev, PhD · Last updated: September 2026