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Tabby Cat Math Parade

Tabby Cat Math Parade is a free casual game for kids 6 and up, families and classrooms. It plays in the browser on phones, tablets, and computers, with no download, no sign-up and no chat.

Free, no sign-up. Plays right here in your browser.

About the game

Tabby Cat Math Parade is a math game you play right in your browser, with nothing to download. Token, a cheerful orange tabby cat, leads a parade of kittens down a festival street that scrolls by on its own. You usually start each street with 5 kittens, and your job is to get the parade as big as you can.

Across the street stand pairs of arches, each with a sum on it: +5, ×2, −3, ÷2. The parade goes through one arch of each pair, and you steer left or right to choose. A quick sum in your head tells you which arch grows the parade the most. As you pass, the whole sum floats up on screen, so you can see why the parade got bigger or smaller.

Little crowds of grumpy rain clouds wait on the street, each with a number on it. Every cloud needs one kitten's hug to cheer up. The kitten who hugs it sits on the curb and waves, and the cloud turns into a little rainbow. Each cloud you cheer up costs a kitten, so pick your arches well.

At the end of every street waits the Big Gloom, a giant cloud with a number on it. It turns back into sunshine if you have at least that many kittens. Clear a street and you earn one to three stars, depending on how many kittens you have left over. Then it's on to the next street. The streets are numbered and keep going, and a street is always the same when you play it again, so you can learn it.

A miss never costs you anything. There are no lives and no lost stars: you just play the same street again. If you miss the same street twice in a row, Token's friends join in and the next try starts with extra kittens until you clear it. A street takes about a minute or less, and a sitting of a few streets is about two to four minutes. Your best street and your stars are saved.

How to play

  • On a phone or tablet: drag your finger left or right anywhere on the screen, or tap the side you want to go to.
  • On a computer: press the left and right arrow keys or A and D, or drag with the mouse.
  • Press Enter or Space to use any button.
  • Go through the arch with the sum you prefer. You go through exactly one arch of each pair.
  • Get to the Big Gloom with enough kittens to fill its number.

Tips

  • Look at your kitten count before you choose. Doubling (×2) beats +10 only when you have more than 10 kittens.
  • When both arches take kittens away, pick the smaller loss. With 20 kittens, −8 leaves 12, but ÷2 leaves only 10.
  • Every arch has its own color and little picture for its kind of sum, but no arch is marked good or bad. Working that out is the game.
  • The number on a cloud crowd shows how many kittens you need to get through it. The Big Gloom's number shows how many you need at the end.
  • Dividing rounds up, so a kitten left over stays in the parade.

Good to know

  • Free to play in the browser, with no download, no sign-up and no chat.
  • Your street, your stars and your biggest parade are saved in this browser, so a reload starts you on your current street.
  • It works in a private window as well. Your progress just lasts until you close it.
  • For classrooms and homes: it practices mental addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with numbers up to 1,000. It works on school Chromebooks.

Questions and answers

Is Tabby Cat Math Parade free?

Yes. It's free to play in your browser, with no download, no sign-up and no chat.

Does it work on a school Chromebook?

Yes. It works on phones, tablets, computers and school Chromebooks, right in the browser. On a computer you steer with the arrow keys, A and D, or the mouse.

What age is it for?

It's made for kids about 6 to 11, and families and classrooms can play together. Early streets use small sums with plus and minus, and the sums get harder as the streets go on.

What math does it practice?

Mental addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with whole numbers up to 1,000. Division rounds up, and the whole sum floats up as you pass each arch, so a child can see how the answer was reached. Later streets ask players to look at their count before choosing, because the best arch can change with the number of kittens.

What happens if I don't have enough kittens?

The street ends with "So close!" and tells you how many more kittens you needed. Nothing is lost. You play the same street again right away, and after two misses in a row, the next try starts with extra kittens until you clear it.

Is my progress saved?

Yes. Progress is saved in this browser on this device. Your current street, your stars and your biggest parade are saved, so a reload starts you on your current street from the beginning.

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