Today we have another new reviewer, Elizabeth Wolf.  She has been following iGameMom for a long time, and she blogs at LeMaisonLoup.com about her travel experience with kids.  It is a very interesting blog to read with a lot picture.  Now let’s see what Elizabeth is sharing with us today. The Kratt brothers are a wild pair who travel the globe to explore animal habitats on PBS Kids.  They teach children all about different animals, where they live and what kind of food sources they need to survive. … Read more

Did you get snow this winter? Did the kids like playing with snow?  Today I want to share a snow related app: Snowflake Station.  Kids can design and cut paper snowflakes and learn symmetry while playing.  What is even better, it is Free. Note: the app was free when the review was posted, but it is now not free anymore. There are three sections in the app: Trace a Flake, Creation Station, and Make it Snow. In Trace a Flake, kids… Read more

A while ago I reviewed iTooch Elementary School app by EduPad.  I was very excited to see such a comprehensive app matching school curriculum.  Today I am sharing iTooch Middle School.  Similar to iTooch Elementary School, this is a very comprehensive learning app for Grades 6 to 8.  For each grade, there are Math and Language Art, plus Health for Grade 6.  The iTooch Middle School App serves as a shell app, hosting the 7 titles.   It is helpful to… Read more

Today I have a math app called Timed Test Arcade.  It is a math practice app for Grade K to 5.  I like it because it gives users lot flexibility in choosing what they want to practice on and at what level. Timed Test Arcade has practices for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  Kids can choose which of the 4 types of problem they want to practice on.  In addition, kids can decide the difficulty levels by choose the number… Read more

MyScript Calculator is a calculator app. What makes it different is that it performs all the mathematical operations from users’ handwriting. You don’t have to remember what keys to push first to do square root calculation. It is a FREE app. Introduction from the App Store: Easy, simple and intuitive, just write the mathematical expression on the screen then let MyScript technology perform its magic converting symbols and numbers to digital text and delivering the result in real time. The… Read more

When I reviewed the SplashMath App, I was really in love with the app. Because it provides a comprehensive math exercise for kids at elementary school, with all the contents aligned with school curriculum.  Today I am even more excited to share another app that is also linked with school curriculum, and what is more, it includes Math, Language Art, and Science for Grade 3 to 5, and Health for Grade 5 – this is a total of 10 titles. … Read more

Today we have a guest reviewer Jenn.  She is a social media researcher and blogs at SocialMediaPhobe.  Jenn and I got to know each other when we were trading emails about an interview she did on iGameMom.  If you are interested in knowing a little more about iGameMom, you can read her post HERE.  Having young children at home, she is sharing a math app for pre-schoolers today – Lola’s Math Train. Lola’s Math Train reinforces early mathematic skills for the 3-5 year-old kids. Your children will love… Read more

Leo’s Pad Appisode 1 is an interactive animated appisode designed for preschoolers by a team including Stanford University education experts.  It is about the adventures of the 8-year-old boy Leonardo da Vinci and his friends.  If you are not sure what appisode is (like me), you can think of appisode as an episode of a TV series.  Leo’s Pad Appisode 1 is Free, but the following Appisodes are not. What I like the most about this free app is it… Read more

Stop Math is a book app for kids in elementary school. It is about a boy Sparks, who lives in year 2106. He hates math, so he travels back through time and space to search for the person who invented math. His goal is to end math homework! Through his journey, Sparks meets Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and a Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi. He learns Arabic numbers, Roman numerals, relativity theory, and gravitational attraction from these master mathematicians… Read more

Today’s Best Educational Apps for Kids list is Best Pre-school Math Apps.  I try to include apps addressing the pre-school math from different angles, using different approaches, since each child is different, one app works for this child, may not work for another.  Also young kids have short attention span, so it is a good idea to have several apps addressing the same topics handy, so you can rotate them. Remember to child-proof your iPAD/iPod/iPhone before hand it to your child. For… Read more

GMAT Prep helps students prepare for the tests in three ways: lessons, study questions, and mimic timed tests. It is a great app to have if you are preparing for the test.  It works on iPhone, iPod, and iPAD.  Originally priced at $7.99, it is FREE for one day only! Introduction on App Store: Although the GMAT is a difficult test, it is a very learnable test. GMAT app presents a thorough analysis of the GMAT and introduces numerous analytic… Read more

Jazzy 123 is a fun app teaching kids numbers with music instruments.  From the developer of Jazzy Day and Jazzy ABC, Jazzy 123 has the same quality of a good educational app. Kids can learn counting 1 to 10 with music instruments.  For each number, there will be corresponding number of certain instruments shown on the screen.  When kids tap on the instruments, they will hear the sound of the instrument and a child’s voice counting the number of the… Read more

Marble Math Junior is a fun math app for kids age 5 to 8.  It is FREE today for one day only. After starting the app, kids collect numbers that can solve the math problem by rolling or dragging the marble through a series of mazes.  To reach the number they need, kids must avoid obstacles.  Along the way, they can collect prizes and win new marbles.  For early readers, the problem will be read aloud if the child taps… Read more

Learn Times Table is a key stage for kids to get fluent in math. As my son’s math teacher told me, you want the child be able to memorize the basic facts, so he can tell you the answer without even thinking about it. This is not an easy job. Luckily, there are quite some tools helping kids to achieve the goal, MultiFlow is one of them. MultiFlow is an app to drill the kids on multiplication facts. There are… Read more