Math games for iPad, built around third grade math
Bear games your child will want to play. Every right answer keeps the game going, and the math gets harder only when they're ready.
Fun games for growing minds
Each game is a real game first. Math questions pop up at natural moments, and right answers help your child win.
On your marks, get set, do math! Every right answer gives your bear a burst of speed.
See Bear RacingStack the blocks, clear the lines, crack the math. Just one more game? Probably three.
See Bear BlocksBoing! Bounce down a giant 3D tree, dodge the prickly thorns and race for the den.
See Bouncing BearsFeed the bears! Connect the matching snacks and fill the board without crossing a line.
See Bear SnacksProgressive Learning
GrizzlyMath starts with the easiest facts. It moves on only when your child is answering quickly and correctly, and it quietly brings older facts back so nothing gets forgotten.
There's no timer on the screen and no score for the math. If your child is having a hard day, the questions get gentler. If they're flying, the game keeps up.
Made by a family
Nora loves math and puzzle games. Her mom and dad, Sarah and Brian, kept finding ads, pop-ups and things no parent wants their child to see in the games on her iPad. Brian has been building software for 12 years, so the three of them made something better.
“I didn’t want to take the iPad away. I wanted the time she spent on it to be good for her.”Brian, Nora's dad
For grown-ups
Set it up once. Each child gets their own bear, name and 4-digit PIN, so brothers and sisters can share one iPad.
The games
Every game is something kids would play anyway. The math shows up at natural moments, never as a quiz.
Math-powered racing!
Three bears, one finish line, and only one way to go faster: get the answer right. Every correct answer fuels your bear with a burst of speed to zoom past the pack. Ready, set, solve!
Where the math is: a question on screen the whole race. Right answers make your bear faster. A wrong answer just means another try.
Fit it. Clear it. Keep it going!
Drag the blocks onto the board, fill a row and watch it vanish. When the board gets crowded, a few quick math answers clear the way and keep the fun going. Easy to start, hard to put down.
Where the math is: after every 12 shapes, and whenever your child gets stuck, three quick questions bring the game back.
A 3D adventure down a giant tree!
Curl up into a Bear Ball and bounce down a giant tree, ledge by ledge. Spin the tree to find the gaps and steer clear of the prickly brambles. Reach the den, answer the math, and a brand new tree is waiting.
Where the math is: a question when you hit a thorn, and at the den at the bottom of every tree to reach the next level.
Snack time is puzzle time!
Hungry bears need their snacks lined up! Connect every matching pair without crossing a line, and fill the whole board to win. The boards get bigger as your brain gets stronger.
Where the math is: a short math break after every board. Stuck? "Show me" draws a line for a couple of right answers.
What every game has in common
Your child plays because it's fun. Every right answer along the way is real math practice, and the math grows with them.
The math
In the parent area, you choose how each child practices. Let your child pick their own math, or turn on Progressive Learning and let GrizzlyMath choose the right questions for them.
GrizzlyMath starts with the easiest facts, moves on only when your child is answering them quickly and correctly, and quietly brings older facts back so nothing gets forgotten. You also choose who picks the kind of math, adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing: your child, or GrizzlyMath.
Your child chooses what to practice before each game, within the limits you set: which kinds of math, and which numbers. Handy when they're working on something specific at school.
Who it's for
The math is designed around what third graders learn at school. With the parent controls, it fits younger kids, older kids and grown-ups too.
Start with adding and subtracting and switch multiplying and dividing off. Progressive Learning begins with the easiest facts, so nobody starts in over their head.
Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with the facts third graders work on in class, from the 2s right up to the trickier times tables.
Rusty on your 7s and 8s? Fast facts help at every age. Older brothers and sisters, parents and grandparents can brush up too.
Why we built parent controls and Progressive Learning
The first version of GrizzlyMath let kids pick their own numbers. One evening Brian watched Nora play a race and noticed every question was a zero or a one. 7 × 0. 1 × 9. She was winning every race.
That was good news and bad news. Good news: she loved the game enough to keep playing. Bad news: she had found the shortcut, and she wasn't practicing anything.
So we built two things. First, parent controls, so your child gets the math practice they need instead of skipping through the math to get to the game. Then Progressive Learning, which is designed to grow your child's math skills over time. It starts where they are and moves on when they're ready.
How Progressive Learning works
GrizzlyMath is built so kids can play their games and practice math without being frustrated or overwhelmed.
Each kind of math starts with the easiest facts, the ones with a 0 or a 1. Those are for warming up only. Being fast on 7 × 1 doesn't count as knowing your 7s.
For times tables, that means the 2s first, then the next family. Never more than a few new facts at once, mixed in with ones your child already knows.
A fact counts as learned only after your child answers it correctly and comfortably on three different days. One lucky guess doesn't move them ahead.
Facts your child knows return now and then, with longer gaps each time, so they stick for good.
After a miss, the next question is one your child knows. If a session gets bumpy, the game eases off. Mostly right answers keep kids playing.
Kids never see a timer, a score for the math, or a level. Speed is only a quiet signal the game uses to decide what to ask next.
The research behind it
Progressive Learning is built on ideas about learning math facts that researchers have studied for years. What's new is putting them inside games kids already want to play.
Some facts are much easier than others, and kids learn best when easy facts come first and harder ones build on them. Our order follows studies of which facts children find hardest and the order teachers commonly use.
Getting solid on a small set of facts before adding more works better than practicing everything at once. A family of facts is finished only when nearly all of it is known.
Practice spread out over days beats cramming. Reviewing a fact just as it starts to fade, with longer gaps each time, helps it last.
Researchers caution against timed tests and judging kids by speed alone, because it can make kids anxious about math. GrizzlyMath keeps any timing hidden and never shows it as a penalty.
Our family
SarahAn organized free spirit who thrives on family, fresh air, and fun. When she slows down, you'll find her on a yoga mat or lost in a good book.
BrianA big voice with a quiet, reserved side. He has spent 12 years building software and is happiest figuring out how things work.
NoraThe perfect mix of the two. She's 8, she designs and tests every game, and she never holds back her feedback. When she decided her dad's race tracks were boring, she said so, then drew new ones herself.
Together, we built the app we wanted for our own family: fun to play, good for learning, and free of everything that's wrong with the open internet.
“Nora loves games and puzzles, and I am happy to let her play. She earns her screen time, and honestly, sometimes I need her occupied for a few minutes. But every time I picked up her iPad, there was something new. Ads playing nonstop. Ads that had no business in front of a kid. Apps I’d never heard of that she’d ended up in just by tapping around. And some of those “free” games weren’t really games at all, just a little game wrapped around malware. I didn’t want to take the iPad away. I wanted the time she spent on it to be good for her. So we built our own.”Brian, Nora's dad
What we promise
GrizzlyMath is made by a small family company, Belisle Software Solutions. There is nothing inside it trying to sell your child anything, and nothing trying to keep them hooked.
For grown-ups
Short answers. If yours isn't here, email us and a real person will write back.
Yes. GrizzlyMath has no ads of any kind and nothing to buy inside the app. There are no links out to websites or other apps.
GrizzlyMath is built around third grade math, around age 8. With the parent controls, younger kids can stick to adding and subtracting, and Progressive Learning always starts with the easiest facts. Older kids and grown-ups who want to sharpen their facts can play too.
It needs iPadOS 18 or later. It works on iPad mini, iPad, iPad Air and iPad Pro, in any direction, and in Split View.
Hopefully soon, we are a small team.
No. Once it's installed, GrizzlyMath works anywhere, with no Wi-Fi.
Yes. Each child picks their own bear and has their own name, PIN and progress. Grown-ups get their own code for the parent area.
Nothing. Names, progress and settings are kept on the iPad only. Nothing is sent to us or anyone else. The names don't even have to be real names.
The app can ask the iPad to confirm it's you with Face ID, Touch ID or your iPad passcode, then let you set a new code.
For a limited time, GrizzlyMath is free. This might change, but whatever the price, there is nothing more to buy inside the app.
Privacy
Nothing your child does in the app leaves the iPad. It isn't sent to us, it isn't sent to anyone else, and it isn't synced to iCloud. Deleting the app deletes all of it.
Privacy policy
Nothing your child does in the app leaves the iPad.
Last updated: November 10, 2026
GrizzlyMath is a math game for children, made by Belisle Software Solutions. This policy covers the GrizzlyMath app for iPad.
All of this is stored on the iPad only. It is not sent to us or to anyone else, and the app does not sync it to iCloud. If you back up the iPad, to iCloud or to a computer, Apple includes the app's saved data in that backup, as it does for every app. The backup is yours. We never see it.
A grown-up can reset or delete a child's progress in the parent area. Deleting the app deletes the profiles, settings and progress from the iPad. The scrambled codes can stay in the iPad's Keychain after that. The app clears them if it is installed again.
Face ID, Touch ID and the iPad passcode. If a grown-up forgets their parent code, the app can ask the iPad to confirm its owner with Face ID, Touch ID or the passcode. The check is done by iPadOS. The app only learns whether it passed, and keeps nothing from it.
GrizzlyMath is made for children and is listed in the App Store Kids Category. Because it collects no personal information, there is nothing for a parent to consent to and nothing to review, export or delete on our side.
If a future version of the app changes any of the above, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change.
Questions about this policy: [email protected]
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