ORLANDO, Fla., --- Plainvue Software, Inc., an independent video game studio based in Orlando, has released Fraction’s Kitchen™ , the third in a series of video games designed to sharpen the math skills of late elementary and middle school students.
Daniel Roy, chief executive officer of Plainvue Software, Inc., said the new game is part of Plainvue’s Order of the Abacus™ series of games available for download at the Apple iTunes Store for iPhone and iPod Touch.
“Fraction's Kitchen™ reinforces pre-algebra topics, quantities and manipulation of fractions,” Roy explained.
Plainvue’s Order of the Abacus™ games create a math-centric world wherein Minjas™ (math Ninjas) compete to solve math problems.
In Fraction’s Kitchen™ , players enter Minja™ kitchen, where they help Chef Fraction create meals, measuring, chopping, mixing and kneading with new and engaging game controls unique to the Order of the Abacus™ game series.
“Successful recipe preparation requires the player to identify fractions and calculate ingredients using regular and mixed fractions,” Roy explained.
“Understanding fractions and developing computational skills are significant challenges for middle-school kids,” Roy said. “Fraction’s Kitchen™ engages them in the identification and manipulation of fractions to increase their familiarity with symbolic representation linked to region, length and set models,” he said.
Fraction’s Kitchen™ is available as Fraction's Kitchen Lite, a free version available for 60 days at the iTunes Store, Roy said.
A paid version ($1.99) will be released before Christmas at the iTunes Store.
Earlier, Plainvue Software released Order of the Abacus™ games Chainshooter™, which teaches math orders of operations, and Fortune's Prime™, which teaches prime numbers.
For more information about Plainvue’s Order of the Abacus™ games for late elementary and middle school students, visit www.orderoftheabacus.com.
Plainvue is a client of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program in the Central Florida Research Park in east Orlando.
For more information, contact:
Daniel Roy, CEO, Plainvue Software, Inc., 407-277-2973, droy@plainvuesoftware.com
Carol Ann Dykes, Site Manager, UCF Business Incubation Program, 407-882-0211, cdykes@mail.ucf.edu
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142 or LvershelCo@aol.com
About the UCF Incubation Program:
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 130 emerging companies (including nearly 80 current clients) create over $500 million in annual revenue and more than 1600 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With six facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development between the University of Central Florida, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Winter Springs, The City of Sanford, Lake County, the City of Leesburg, and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more information, please visit www.incubator.ucf.edu.
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