Maya Chen

Maya spent five years watching which classroom activities genuinely helped young children fall in love with numbers — and which quietly lost them. The games she builds today are the digital descendants of those hands-on manipulatives: carnival counting, shape safaris, and number gardens that turn abstract ideas into something a three-year-old can touch, tap, and understand.

Maya Chen designs the interactive math games at Fun Math Kids, focusing on the earliest years of number sense. After five years teaching preschool and kindergarten, she moved into instructional game design so that the hands-on counting, sorting, and pattern activities that worked in her classroom could reach children everywhere. Maya believes early math should feel like play: short, calm sessions built around one clear idea at a time. Every game she authors is grounded in one-to-one correspondence, subitising, and gentle progression, and is checked against Common Core, the UK National Curriculum, the Australian Curriculum, and Canadian provincial expectations for the relevant age band.