Math

Math apps for kids

These are a few math apps I came across that may help with math skills.

 Motion Math: Cupcake! is an incredibly entertaining and educational app that teaches children a variety of math skills in a unique and fun game. With a cupcake business and the freedom to create exciting new cupcakes, players must create, sell, and deliver their orders in order to make money and keep their business going. Throw in math concepts like addition, subtraction, multiplication, word problems, and fractions and you have an awesome app that is highly entertaining and teaches children so much more than math.  ($4.99)

Lumio Farm Factor: Multiply and Divide Basics uses hands on techniques to help young students understand how multiplication and division work. This app will not only help kids learn their facts, it will also guide them to a more complete understanding of these foundational skills.  Features include:  2 stories and over 60 interactive problems in the full app; Teaches the concepts of multiplication and division; Uses models and arrays to clarify; Aligned to Common Core Standards; More complex problems unlocked gradually.  $2.99

Kids get the chance to build their multiplication skills while racing against the clock with Number Hero: Multiplication. This app allows kids to practice multiplication problems at two different levels: products from 1-20 and products from 1-81. Once they’ve chosen a level, they’re given less than two minutes to solve as many multiplication problems as possible by sliding their fingers across the number grid. While simple in concept, the game proves to be challenging and fairly addicting, too.$1.99

Think you know how to solve basic math problems? Pretty Pet Math adds a twist to the equation by having pets cross the street to reach the correct answer. There’s only one problem – people are crossing the street at the same time. Kids will have to maneuver their pets around the people to get them to the right answers & score points in the game.  Features include:  multiple vels;  Addition and Subtraction;  Multiplication and Division;  Frogger-style game; Cute pets

Marble Math is a fun mathematics game for kids to play on their iPads. The game has students practice basic multiplication problems through a maze layout. Students are given multiplication problems to solve by rolling their marbles through mazes that contain the correct answers. Students have to avoid the incorrect answers while moving their marbles toward the correct answers. Some of the mazes contain additional obstacles to avoid while searching for the correct answer. Students earn points for each maze they solve. When they reach 2,000 points (ten-fifteen correctly solved mazes) students earn a new marble. Marble Math is available in three versions. Marble Math Lite only offers multiplication problems. Marble Math Junior offers addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication problems. Marble Math includes fraction problems, decimals, and negative integers

Sushi Monster is a free iPad game produced by Scholastic. The purpose of Sushi Monster is to provide a fun environment for students to practice their addition and multiplication skills. This is the premise of Sushi Monster; students feed their Sushi Monsters by correctly choosing two numbers that when added or multiplied result in the number that the monster wants to eat. When the monster has been fully fed students move on to feeding a new monster.

Fizzy’s Lunch Lab Fresh Pick is a free iPad app from PBS Kids. The app is based on the popular PBS web seriesFizzy’s Lunch Lab. The purpose of the app is to challenge students’ math and problem solving skills. The app contains eight challenges for students to try. Students can go through the challenges in any order that they like. The eight challenges for students are Buying Groceries, Grocery Mapping, Neighborhood Mapping, Pantry Hunt, Fizzy’s Invention, Customer Change, Find Freddy, and Food Matcher.

Math vs. Zombies is a free iPad game with a spooky theme. The game is has three virtual worlds each containing ten levels of basic math problems. The object of the game is to correctly solve as many math problems as possible before the zombies catch you. The math of the game is basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. If you’re comfortable having your students play math games that have a zombie theme Math vs. Zombies offers engaging practice activities. Tap to Learn, the producers of Math vs. Zombies, offers a few non-zombie math games if you’re looking for something else to try on your iPad.

Matchmatics is an iPad app that presents mathematics puzzles in the form of matchsticks laid out on a canvas. The challenge of Matchmatics is to move one matchstick to make an incorrect equation correct. Points are awarded based on how quickly you can correct the equation. The puzzles get progressively more difficult as you work through the app. Matchmatics has a timed mode and an un-timed mode. The full version of the app costs $0.99 USD. The free version of the app contains ten problems that you can try before upgrading to the full version.

10monkeys is an iPad app that elementary school students will enjoy using to practice their multiplication skills. The premise of the game is that students have to free the monkeys by correctly answering multiplication questions as quickly as possible. Students earn points for accuracy and speed. As students progress through the game they progress through the multiplication tables of two through ten. The last level mixes up problems from all of the previous levels. 10monkeys provides multiplication tables as references for students to use when they get stuck on a level. 10monkeys doesn’t offer anything that many other multiplication game apps offers, but it is a lot of fun to play.

IXL Math Practice is a free iPad app from the popular online math practice service, IXL. IXL Math Practice offers hundreds of math practice problems for students in Kindergarten through sixth grade. The practice problems are arranged according to grade level and mathematics skill. To find a set of practice problems students select their grade level then select a mathematics skill to practice. IXL Math Practice can be used without creating an IXL account by simply tapping “continue as guest” after opening the app. Guests can use the practice problems. However, guests cannot track their points or receive digital trophies for reaching points levels. Students who have IXL accounts (accounts are not free) can track their points and earn digital trophies.

MathTappers: Multiples is a
simple game designed first to help learners to make sense of multiplication and division with whole numbers, and then to support them in developing fluency while maintaining  accuracy. 

Splash Math: grade 4 app:  4th graders are encouraged to be independent in their learning and revising work themselves. Hence, Splash Math Grade 4 App proves to be a must for this grade. 140+ adaptive worksheets with infinite problems spread across 10 chapters in “Space themed” background makes this cool app appeal to kids in grade 4

Operation Math (iOS - $2.99, Android - $1.99) This app turns your students into secret spies that will travel around the world on different missions. Kids can choose which operations they want to practice as they make their way through this app.

Quick Math - Arithmetic & Times Tables (iOS - $1.99)  With this app, kids will answer traditional skill-and-drill questions -- but they won't have to enter answers into a keypad. Instead, your children can write the answer anywhere on the screen of their device, and the app will read their handwriting and record their response.

Pet Bingo by Duck Duck Moose (iOS - $1.99, Android - $1.99)  In this game, children will have to answer addition, subtraction, multiplication or division questions and place their answer on a bingo board. This app is full of colorful cartoon characters and offers visual models to help students understand each problem.

Meerkat Math HD (iOS - $1.99)  This adventure app asks students to complete different races using their math facts. In order to make their meerkat avatar run and jump fast enough to be a winner, they'll have to answer each question quickly and correctly.

Math Flash Cards * (iOS - Free)  A traditional skill-and-drill app (yes, the asterisk is part of the title), Math Flash Cards * helps children practice their times tables by customizing the number and difficulty level of each question. This app has a simple interface that makes it easy for kids to play.

Math Monsters - Bingo (iOS - Free)  Students can practice all operations using this bingo app. They'll solve each problem and then find the answer on the bingo board. Players need to be strategic if they want to win the game.

YodelOh Math Mountain (iOS - $2.99, Android - $1.99)

A virtual take on a traditional carnival game, this app helps children practice all four operations. They'll have to work quickly so that the yodeler doesn't fall from the top of the mountain.