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A Haverhill family's educational iPhone game has become one of the top 50 - one week after being released.

Jason Andre, 29, of Eastern Avenue, worked with his wife Diana, 34, to create 'Monkey Maths'.
It has since made the top 50 paid-for educational apps and featured in Apple's 'New and Noteworthy' section.

The couple formed DiJa Software to create the maths education game for primary school children after seeing their own children, two-year-old Zach and five-year-old Joni, enjoy games on their iPhones.

Jason, who works in computing at an Enfield school, said: “The idea comes from seeing the kids and how they interact with the iPhone.

"They really like playing games on it so we thought it would be really good if we could make something they could enjoy and learn from at the same time.

“Di has a background in working with children and mine is in maths, so we wanted to have a game that fitted both of these things and thought a small, maths-based game would be really good.”

The app has been given five stars in all of its reviews, with comments including 'a fun way for my six-year-old to practise his sums...bargain' and 'Brilliant app has helped my son with his maths immensely!'.

DiJa Software is next aiming to make a literacy-based app, also aimed at primary school children.
Monkey Maths is available off Apple's App Store for 59p.