Related but about 10 years ago my little brother was struggling pretty hard with learning the multiplication tables, so I built a edutainment math game based off the magic carpet escape sequence in the old Aladdin game for the Sega Genesis. He played that game obsessively on my iPad and it really helped him. Never underestimate the power of personalized education!
I was telling someone else how I missed the boat by not calling the app "Spelling Bee". :)