It depends a lot on what you are learning. I think playing DreamBox significantly helped my daughter (1st grade) learn how to count. Simply because she likes pl

It depends a lot on what you are learning. I think playing DreamBox significantly helped my daughter (1st grade) learn how to count. Simply because she likes playing with it so she got a lot of practice for no effort. The key is there: no effort, or an effort that is lower than the reward. But I don't think there are many things where this applies. Reflecting on my personal experience: in junior high school and above I played a lot of video games available only in English, that truly helped with my learning of the language. And now that I'm studying kanji: spaced repetition on the iPhone...