Need to help your Kindergarten/Reception, 1 or 2nd Grade/Year 1 or 2 child with their addition facts? Teachley Addimal Adventure involves fun and learning with the help of captain Memo and the Addimals to help your child save the additional day! The app has been created by former teachers and experts in children’s learning to produce an app focusing specifically on the fundamental single digit addition skill. The premises involves the hero Captain Memo and his Addimals, ably assisted by the children… Read more

Learning how to tell time is a challenge for children. Tic Toc Time from Seven Academy offers a different approach. It initially teaches that the day can be divided into time periods. This paves the way for the introduction of the clock as a tool for telling time. A fun-loving family of beavers will guide you through an app full of amazing graphics and lively music. It is not  obvious to the child playing the ‘games’ but they are in a precise order, each getting slightly more complex. There are six main sections (each with multiple levels)… Read more

Today I want to share a series of math apps – iLiveMath series.  It is very unique in a way that it combines math with another subject, such as animals, oceans, transportation.  It helps kids connect math with the real world and see how math are used in real life. There are several apps in the series, including Oceans, Animals of Africa, Animals of Asia, Speed, Ford Cars, Farm Fresh, and Entomology.  Each app has three levels, covering grade k… Read more

This space math adventure app is geared specifically to the 3-4 year old set. Kids get to help the peppy robot, Zorbit and his pal get to planet Earth while they build they pre-K math skills.   The adventure is divided into six different chapters that focus on Common Core Curriculum for preschool math—love that.  Kids have to complete each chapter and earn a star before they can move on to the next one, once all the stars are earned, Zorbit’s… Read more

Today we have another math app went free – Bugsy’s Math Quest.  It is a game that helps reinforce multiplication and division facts.  It is not a teaching app, but a game app that helps kids improve speed and accuracy. Like other Bugsy apps, it features the hamster Bugsy.  The game setting is similar to Bugsy in Math Kingdom.  The difference is Bugsy in Math Kingdom only covers Addition and Subtraction, while Bugsy’s Math Quest, covers Multiplication and Division. Kids… Read more

The developer Justin Holladay has created a great combination of story book and math activities in the app Jack and the Beanstalk. This app is in part an eBook which reads you the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and also in part a series of math activities throughout the story. Math is a fundamental part of cognitive development, helping to improve critical thinking skills, logic, and problem solving skills.  All of which are  strong foundations to a child’s development… Read more

Right after I posted 10 free math apps for school age kids, I found another free math app that is also quite engaging.  It is called Free the Balloon.  It helps kids practice skip counting via games. The basic game play idea is simple.  Kids follow the teacher’s instructions at the beginning of the game on a blackboard, like “count by 1 from 4 to 15”. They then move the balloons, in the correct order, through the hoops labeled with… Read more

To master Multiplication and Division a student needs to begin with an understanding of the relationship between repeated addition, skip counting and multiplication. Speed! by Highhill Education offers Skip counting practice cleverly disguised as a fun and addictive (physical) card game. We are excited to share the app version of the game where you can now challenge a friend or your iPad. There are eight decks of cards 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, 6’s, 7’s, 8’s and 9’s. Deck 2’s is for skip counting by 2, Deck 3’s is for skip counting… Read more

Today I am reviewing a handwriting and math activity app called 123 Tracing by Kids Academy Company. Learning numbers is a fundamental concept to basic math, this app helps children learn their numbers through the use of tracing and handwriting. It is a very basic app consisting of the numbers one through ten, allowing your child to trace the numbers. It encourages repetition which increases mastery. They have added in a game of catching fireflies throughout the app. The more… Read more

Penguin Pre-K and Penguin Kindergarten are two fun learning app for kids.  Two apps are very similar on the game play, except some differences on learning content.  For Pre-K, the problems are number values, ten-frames, 0-5 addition/subtraction, upper/lower case letters, geometry, color words, and pie graph comparisons. For Kindergarten, many contents are similar, but the math extends to 0-10 addition/subtraction, tally marks, and even mahjong counting. After kids start the app, they see three igloos at the top of the screen, each igloo has a different image… Read more

Bolt by Happsan is a fun math game. It is FREE for limited time. As it’s said on App Store introduction, it is a “challenging, social number game” that everyone can play, regardless of age and education. You can play against the Glenn, the built-in character within the app, or you can play with your friends on the same device, or challenge other online players around the world in multiplayer mode! The gameplay consists of a board with 42 tiles, numbered… Read more

Play and Learn with Wallace is a learning app series designed for preschool kids.  It combines educational games and interactive play to engage preschoolers in a fun learning environment. It is a shell app, holds all the apps coming into the series.  It is free to download, with sample questions from each individual app to play with.  There are currently 4 apps are available, each has 6 games.  The 4 apps are: My first app: Kids learn simple words, numbers… Read more

When we talk about kids learning math, we tend to think about math facts practice.  While math facts are important foundational math skills, there are more math skills kids need learn – critical thinking and problem solving are two of them.  I have not found as many math apps focusing on these skills as those on simple math facts, so I get excited whenever I found one, and even more excited if it is FREE.  MathLands is a free app… Read more

Easy Studio – Animate with shapes is a fun app you and your kids will all like.  Just like the app title suggested, it lets kids put together animations on the iPad using only geometric shapes. There are two play modes: Easy and Expert.  When kids first start the app, they will be in Easy mode.  Kids will watch a tutorial on the basic functionalities – how to move pieces onto the canvas, how to take single pictures, how to play the… Read more