When should kids have cell phones and tablets? Here’s what parents told Osmo researchers

The Research at Osmo team found that 74 percent of parents who participated in a recent survey thought children should be at least 10 years old before getting their own smartphone. And yet when looking at which age children should receive their own tablets, 72 percent believed that children should…

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Meet the first teacher to test Osmo games in her classroom

Jennifer Auten doesn’t remember where she saw the ad asking for volunteers to test out a new educational product but she does remember why she answered: She has a son, who at the time was in middle school, and interested in computer science.  “It was before Osmo was a name,”…

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How Math Wizard’s creators were inspired by their own struggles

Before she led a team that created characters like Mumbles, (the most powerful wizard in Osmo’s Math Wizard series), art director Mary Shu looked back on her days as a student trying to learn math. It was a struggle. She has dyscalculia, which is often described as dyslexia with numbers,…

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