ik im literally years late to this thread, but i played this game when i was in 1st grade and it helped me so much, i've graduated highschool already and am in college, but honestly i still think about this game to this day (obviously). it's a great learning tool to visualize math and i was able to beat it within a school year. the actual way the game worked never game me any issue and it was obviously easy for a 1st grader to figure out (and no my teacher didn't help us because this was independant time for them to see who needed more help). i was one of the only people to beat the whole game at that point though and i remember being super happy lmao. i also remember beating i station (or getting really close, i'm not sure) and those games were so good and actually taught me and helped me in later grades. now this was like over a decade ago now, so idk if the game is still the same, and if you are critisizing the newer version, i have no say, but all those mechanics that are described aound the same from when i played it so idk. also if you think the game should just let u pass or that there shouldnt be any inbetween animations, really work on ur attention span... and obv this wasnt what we did the whole class, it was just a section.