iPad/iPhone Apps
Below are some apps that the 2nd and 3rd grade teams at Driscoll recommend. Many of them have different levels of challenge to engage students at multiple grade levels. Our favorite feature: most of these apps are free!
Free Games: Motion Math Zoom, Motion Math Wings, Fractions+, Sushi Monster, all MathTappers games (Number Line, Find Sums, Multiples, etc.), and basic levels of Mathtopia
Free Games: Motion Math Zoom, Motion Math Wings, Fractions+, Sushi Monster, all MathTappers games (Number Line, Find Sums, Multiples, etc.), and basic levels of Mathtopia
Motion Math Zoom: Number Line
Link to App Store: Motion Math Zoom by Motion Math
Price: Free
This engaging game helps children build an internal number line -- a very helpful idea for the upper elementary grades! Higher levels work well for older kids (up through 6th grade).
Motion Math Zoom's zoomable, stretchable number line is missing some numbers - it's up to your child to put the numbers back where they belong. The new game uses concrete objects to represent abstract numbers: from dinosaurs in the thousands down to amoebas in the thousandths. Fun animal animations and sound effects help elementary school children master the number line.
Price: Free
This engaging game helps children build an internal number line -- a very helpful idea for the upper elementary grades! Higher levels work well for older kids (up through 6th grade).
Motion Math Zoom's zoomable, stretchable number line is missing some numbers - it's up to your child to put the numbers back where they belong. The new game uses concrete objects to represent abstract numbers: from dinosaurs in the thousands down to amoebas in the thousandths. Fun animal animations and sound effects help elementary school children master the number line.
Motion Math: Wings
Link to App Store: Wings by Motion Math
Price: Free
From the makers of Motion Math Zoom comes Wings, a fantastic game for understanding multiplication. Easier levels build a basic understanding and connect different visual representations, while harder levels rely on sophisticated -- and quick paced -- estimation and reasoning. For ages 4 - 12.
Practice mental multiplying and estimation with Motion Math: Wings! This fun math game helps children ages 4 and up develop a conceptual understanding using six different visual forms. It's simple to play – you just tilt your bird to the bigger number.
Price: Free
From the makers of Motion Math Zoom comes Wings, a fantastic game for understanding multiplication. Easier levels build a basic understanding and connect different visual representations, while harder levels rely on sophisticated -- and quick paced -- estimation and reasoning. For ages 4 - 12.
Practice mental multiplying and estimation with Motion Math: Wings! This fun math game helps children ages 4 and up develop a conceptual understanding using six different visual forms. It's simple to play – you just tilt your bird to the bigger number.
Mathtopia+
Link to App Store: Mathtopia by Omega Labs
Price: Free for basic levels; $0.99 each for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, etc. $3.99 for the full version.
This game helps practice math facts in a (watch out!) highly addictive format, similar to the game Bejeweled.
The puzzle game play is similar to popular jewel swapping games but with multi-touch swap, enabling more complicated and challenging matching for addicts of tile-matching puzzlers. True addicts can match their skills against others on Game Center and unlock secret levels. Reduce stress while training the brain.
Price: Free for basic levels; $0.99 each for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, etc. $3.99 for the full version.
This game helps practice math facts in a (watch out!) highly addictive format, similar to the game Bejeweled.
The puzzle game play is similar to popular jewel swapping games but with multi-touch swap, enabling more complicated and challenging matching for addicts of tile-matching puzzlers. True addicts can match their skills against others on Game Center and unlock secret levels. Reduce stress while training the brain.
Fractions+ Lite
Link to App Store: Fractions+ Lite by Omega Labs
Price: Free
From the creators of Mathtopia+, this game helps practice some of our 2nd grade work with fractions, though quickly advances into 3rd and 4th grade work.
Fractions+ users master everyday fractions and their equivalents, including halves, fourths, and eighths; thirds and sixths; and fifths and tenths. Fractions+ Lite contains all the Fractions+ mini-lessons and six practice levels. Fun and addicting, Fractions+ builds mastery through repetitive matching of related concepts. Rewards and achievements encourage speed and accuracy.
Price: Free
From the creators of Mathtopia+, this game helps practice some of our 2nd grade work with fractions, though quickly advances into 3rd and 4th grade work.
Fractions+ users master everyday fractions and their equivalents, including halves, fourths, and eighths; thirds and sixths; and fifths and tenths. Fractions+ Lite contains all the Fractions+ mini-lessons and six practice levels. Fun and addicting, Fractions+ builds mastery through repetitive matching of related concepts. Rewards and achievements encourage speed and accuracy.
Sushi Monster
Link to App Store: Sushi Monster by Scholastic
Price: Free
Sushi Monster is a quick paced game that help builds fact fluency. The game has 7 levels of addition and 5 levels of multiplication.
Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target sum or product. Earn points with each correct answer... but watch out for distractions! To be successful, plan ahead and strategically select numbers from the sushi counter.
Price: Free
Sushi Monster is a quick paced game that help builds fact fluency. The game has 7 levels of addition and 5 levels of multiplication.
Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target sum or product. Earn points with each correct answer... but watch out for distractions! To be successful, plan ahead and strategically select numbers from the sushi counter.
Nine-Gaps
Link to App Store: Nine-Gaps by Quadion Technologies
Price: $0.99
Nine-Gaps is a fun puzzle game that promotes mental flexibility with numbers. Check out the app store link for some screen shots!
The goal of the game is really simple. You have to use your wits to place numbers from 1 to 9 in the missing gaps, while matching the operations presented in the puzzle. It's just like sudoku, but different!
*Math Note: while Nine-Gaps is really fun, the game follows equations from left to right or top to bottom, ignoring the order of operations. If your child is familiar with the order of operations, you may want to point this out or suggest another game.
Price: $0.99
Nine-Gaps is a fun puzzle game that promotes mental flexibility with numbers. Check out the app store link for some screen shots!
The goal of the game is really simple. You have to use your wits to place numbers from 1 to 9 in the missing gaps, while matching the operations presented in the puzzle. It's just like sudoku, but different!
*Math Note: while Nine-Gaps is really fun, the game follows equations from left to right or top to bottom, ignoring the order of operations. If your child is familiar with the order of operations, you may want to point this out or suggest another game.
MathTappers: Number Line
Link to App Store: Number Line by HeavyLifters Network Ltd.
Price: Free
The MathTappers motto is play, explore, understand! With that in mind, students will explore the relative positions of numbers on a number line, helping them build number sense. Higher levels of this game are appropriate for older students.
This game allows players to develop their understanding of our number system and their proportional reasoning skills by giving them an opportunity to consider the relative positions of whole, integer and real numbers on a numberline.
Price: Free
The MathTappers motto is play, explore, understand! With that in mind, students will explore the relative positions of numbers on a number line, helping them build number sense. Higher levels of this game are appropriate for older students.
This game allows players to develop their understanding of our number system and their proportional reasoning skills by giving them an opportunity to consider the relative positions of whole, integer and real numbers on a numberline.
MathTappers: Find Sums
Link to App Store: Find Sums by HeavyLifters Network Ltd.
Price: Free
This app encourages students to work quickly to add up to different target numbers (e.g. 20, 100). Students can practice with a visual model first, and then move onto the more abstract/numbers only model.
MathTappers: Find Sums is a simple game designed to help learners to make sense of addition (and subtraction as a related operation), and then to support them in developing accuracy and improving their speed.
Price: Free
This app encourages students to work quickly to add up to different target numbers (e.g. 20, 100). Students can practice with a visual model first, and then move onto the more abstract/numbers only model.
MathTappers: Find Sums is a simple game designed to help learners to make sense of addition (and subtraction as a related operation), and then to support them in developing accuracy and improving their speed.
MathTappers: Multiples
Link to App Store: Multiples by HeavyLifters Network Ltd.
Price: Free
While flashcards have some utility in helping people memorize, they are best used after we have mastered a topic and need to build fluency – they are not magic and won’t support the development of understanding on their own. 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.
Price: Free
While flashcards have some utility in helping people memorize, they are best used after we have mastered a topic and need to build fluency – they are not magic and won’t support the development of understanding on their own. 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.