A math game for iPhone

Learn math by playing. Finally understood.

The math you were taught, the way it should have been shown. Pip is a game where functions, equations and curves are things you build and use. Help Pip escape the flat world, and learn everything from your first function to calculus on the way.

Free to start. Coming soon to the App Store.

13worlds
130+levels
0formulas to memorize
y = −x⁴ + 2x²
The story

Pip lost a dimension.

Pip comes from a world with depth. The Glitch flattened it into the x-y plane: two directions left, and no way home.

01 · Three directionsPip's world had depth: x, y and z.
02 · The GlitchIt took one direction away.
03 · The planeNow he lives on x and y. No way forward.

Everything here moves by rules Pip can't read. You can.

Try a level

Learn algebra visually: a line is a bridge. Build one.

A real level from World 1. The bridge is the line y = ax + b. It has to rest on Pip's bank at (0, 1) and on the far bank at (3, 7), or it tips into the water.

y = 1x + 1
The gem is on the far bank. Make my bridge rest on both banks.
The curriculum

A graphing functions game, from a line to calculus.

Thirteen worlds, each built around one idea. Plain words first, then the real terms, so what you learn carries over to any textbook.

World 0
Functions
0
World 1
Lines
1
World 2
Equations
=
World 3
Inequalities
World 4
Transformations
World 5
Quadratics
+
World 6
Polynomials
World 7
Exponentials and logs
e
World 8
Waves
π
World 9
Limits
World 10
Derivatives
World 11
Integrals
The finale
Beyond
i
The way home

The ring is a map.

Every world lights one symbol of the portal. With all of them, Pip can read it: a spiral path out of the flat world, touching down at exactly one spot.

eiπ + 1 = 0
Why it works

A math game for adults: you don't read about math, you use it.

Every answer plays out

Right or wrong, Pip acts it out. A bridge too steep, a jump too early: you see why, and fix it.

Real math, simple first

Plain words in the first levels, then the real terms: function, slope, equation. Nothing you’ll have to unlearn.

One story, real progress

Each level gets Pip closer to home, and every world lights a piece of the portal. Short levels, no syllabus.

I was there too.

I was good at math until high school, when nobody explained why we were learning any of it. Years later I learned it again on my own, and it turned out to be fascinating.

Pip is the game I wish I had: you don't memorize formulas, you watch them move and build things with them. Math isn't hard. It's just usually explained badly.

Math is his way home.

Be the first to help Pip.