1) Math Grade 1-4: kids practice fun - trainer for elementary school. This app provides a lot of wonderful visuals when practicing your operations of multiple digits. There are a variety of math problems included in this app including money arithmetic, reading and interpreting time, as well as fun mini-games that you can play. The mini-games are earned after working out so many problems and are considered a fun reward. This app is free to download, but the in-app purchases allow you to buy what grade levels you would like to use, so if you are using it for only one grade level, you can pick and choose what math to buy.
2) Math Adventure with Fast Facts: This app is currently free (for a limited time) and provides some entertaining ways to practice your math operations. There are multiple levels to choose from and a parent mode that is to provide some wonderful bonding with your child as you can compete together. This app also has in-app purchases which opens up various levels of the math facts for $1.99 each.
3) The Motion Math Series: I absolutely love the motion math series. This series provides a free version and then a version you can pay for that unlocks everything. Motion math has the following games available.
a) Hungry Fish - Feed the fish by putting number bubbles together to get to the number the fish wants to eat. As you feed the fish, it will get bigger until it is so big that the game is over and you move to the next level. If you don't feed it fast enough, the fish will shrink and shrivel out of existence.
b) Zoom - This is an extremely interactive way to use the number line. I love it for my students as well, because it really requires students to understand how numbers are lined up in order. As you zoom in and out, various animals are between the numbers, the more you zoom in the more the animals are naturally smaller to get you the idea you zoomed in. As you progress in levels you start with integers and can eventually move into more challenges such as decimals and negative numbers. Filling in the number line has never been so much fun!c) Wings - Wings is an expansion on one main operation, multiplication. I abosultely enjoyed using this as it provides not just one way, but multiple visuals to multiply numbers together. I feel this app would have a lot of potential in showing students why we can multiple, how grouping works. As you answer questions you can earn feathers to customize your bird's wings. The different visuals of multiplication that this app provides are: rows of dots, clusters of dots, groups of dots, a grid, a labelled grid, and through the use of symbols.
As a middle school teacher, I really appreciate apps that help students understand what a fraction represents. To this day, I feel most students are afraid of fractions and try to put everything to a decimal. Well, when teaching various degrees of math such as slope, a decimal would be a lot harder to work with than a fraction, so I always look for apps to help students relate better with fractions.
4) Pizza Fractions: Beginning with Simple Fractions - is a wonderful way to start. The idea of the app is that you have only so much of a pizza left and you have to count how many slices are there out of how many slices were originally there. After completing a round you are given an overall score which is based off of how long it took to answer the questions as well as how accurate you were.5) Fraction Math - is an app that allows students to practice each step of the problem until you get the correct answer. This is a wonderful idea, because it holds students accountable for showing all of the steps along the way for the problem.
As always, we will continue to provide you more apps for math in the coming days, our next post will feature math apps for the middle school, then for the high school. Want some apps for your subject? Post a comment and perhaps your request will be the next series of posts!
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