Happy App Friday!
Practice multiplication and division tables on alien planets with Fruit Rockets, then check out the reasons behind the alien surface of an elephant’s skin! Plus, the team at Chube is looking for feedback on their kid-safe video app.
Garry Froehlich
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Fruit Rockets Multiplication
by Quackenworth
Fruit Rockets is an inexpensive, colourful, straightforward app for practicing multiplication and division from zero to twelve. Kids are presented with a question and three possible answers with a fruit rocket motif. The game encourages choosing the correct answer over tapping at random by awarding points and achievements. However, numbers are unlocked as levels, so those looking to practice their six and seven times tables will have to go through 0 to 5 first.
Chube: Kids & Baby Videos
by Sofia Group
The team at Chube is interested in your feedback. Chube is described as a safe kids video app. Given videos are becoming more and more interesting to young kids, finding a safe way to view them can be of interest to parents. If you’d like to check out Chube’s solution for safe video viewing, download Chube for free, sign in with your email to set up an account, and scroll the Chube tab to see popular videos like Peppa Pig and Backyardigans. Chube also has a search feature to find specific content, and the option to auto-play or delete videos that you don’t wish to see. Most importantly, send them your feedback. Chube creators can be reached at mailto:mail@chubemedia.com
Why do Elephants Have Wrinkly Skin?
“If you focus directly on the skin of an African elephant, you can transport yourself far away from the 11-foot-tall beast. Disregard the tusks, the flapping ears, and 20-inch-wide feet. Once you’ve zeroed in on its fissured hide, you might as well be looking at the dried flecks of mud in an ancient lakebed or the cracked surface of Mars. For a long time, scientists had no idea why those cracks existed. But as a new study in Nature Communications shows, those cracks aren’t there because the elephant is in need of a whole lot of lotion. As it turns out, a million years of evolution planned out every single line.”
The close-ups of their skin really does look like a combination of dried mud and a river network: https://www.inverse.com/article/49479-why-do-elephants-have-wrinkled-cracked-skin.
