Math Apps
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – Kindergarten
Kindergarten apps are plentiful in the App Store. Our list of reviewed and recommended apps for Kindergarten will help narrow down the best educational apps for your child or classroom. The apps we have recommended cover important skills such as developing high-level thinking and spatial skills, building reading and written expressions skills, and mastering basic …
Teachley: Subtractimals
Teachley: Subtractimals is a fabulous tool with two teaching methods to help children learn and practice their subtraction tables in a game-like environment. Perfect for use in the classroom or at home.
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – Preschool
Apps for Preschool-aged children are pretty easy to find in the App Store. With so many available it can be difficult to decide which will help your preschooler develop important skills such as sequencing, patterning, building language skills and developing problem solving skills. Our list of reviewed and recommended Preschool apps can make finding the …
Khan Academy
Khan Academy’s app provides a comprehensive library of topics and skills that support Common Core goals. It includes a wealth of information particularly on middle school and high school classes, as well as useful topics for college students and adults.
MyScript Calculator – Handwriting Calculator
MyScript Calculator is a powerful scientific calculator that has the advantage of accepting hand-written input on the device’s screen. It simplifies entry of complex equations and has a number of great features that increase its usefulness.
CK-12
CK-12 offers a comprehensive system of review resources and practice questions that will help students get ahead in school. The app does a thorough job of covering vital ideas in elementary math as well as middle and high school high school math and science.
Geoboard, by the Math Learning Center
Geoboard, by the Math Learning Center is an outstanding app that will help students from middle elementary school through high school develop and improve their understandings of geometry, fraction concepts, and much more.
5 Dice: Order of Operations
5 Dice: Order of Operations is a great game to practice a challenging skill, especially for middle and high school students working individually or in pairs or groups.
Intro to Math, by Montessorium
Intro to Math, by Montessorium offers an important comprehensive look at foundational number concepts, including comparison, sequencing, units and wholes, even and odd, and symbols. It makes a great introduction to beginning math skills for young children.
Smart-EZE Minutes A Day
Smart-EZE is a great app with lots of educational lessons and reviews for children grades 1-5. With Math, English, & Reading Comprehension review options, this app is perfect for practice any time of year.
Quick Math Jr. – School Edition
Unlimited player profiles and a large selection of high quality, Common Core-aligned activities make Quick Math Jr. a must-have app for early elementary classrooms.
Tic Tac Math Trilogy
Tic Tac Math Trilogy is a simple, effective system that provides vital, practical practice with math skills from basic computation through algebra, and it even includes a massive section on operations with fractions for good measure.
Attributes by Math Doodles
Attributes by Math Doodles is an entertaining way to sharpen a host of higher-order thinking skills that will not only support the development of understanding of math concepts, but will also build attention to detail, reasoning and many other vital mental muscles.
Charlie Jumped out of the Clock
Charlie Jumped out of the Clock is a great app that teaches children to tell time by incorporating educational lessons into an interactive story.
MathLab for Kindergarten
Young kids can build early math skills in 17 different ways as they make their way through this engaging math app.
More or Less
Kids use virtual wooden beads to represent the numbers in addition and subtraction problems, helping them gain their own understanding of the concepts.
Star Gurus
Star Gurus is a great app for young children that will help them practice important counting skills which are foundational to learning math in early elementary school. The dot-to-dot game is rewarding in its own right, and the teaching is so gentle and unobtrusive that kids will not even know they are practicing important skills.
Count 2 Play
Help young kids learn to count while interacting with silly animations and playing fun counting games.
ShapeKit
ShapeKit is an entertaining and creative way to learn about shapes. It allows several levels of creativity, will encourage young users to explore, and offers an opportunity to save and share masterpieces both on the device and over the internet.
Lucky’s Tree of Puzzles
Lucky, a squirrel, and a series of educational games will entertain kids, but may be a bit challenging at times.
Prof Miki
Prof. Miki is a good app to use with preschoolers and some kindergarteners and first graders. Even the very young will benefit from its gentle and consistent teaching about the many forms that numbers can take and the relationships between the numbers.
Wonder Bunny Math Race: 1st Grade Kids Advanced Learning App for Numbers, Addition and Subtraction
Wonder Bunny Math Race: 1st Grade Kids Advanced Learning App for Numbers, Addition and Subtraction offers a creative and entertaining way for children to practice first-grade addition and subtraction skills while having lots of fun.
Learning to Tell Time Apps for Kids
Learning to time is a skill that every child needs to learn. These reviewed and recommended apps teach kids this valuable skill in a fun, educational way. Did we miss your favorite telling time app? Leave a comment and we’ll take a look. Tell Time Tell Time is an app that teaches children to tell …
MathLab for Grade1
MathLab for Grade 1 is a simple app that will help preschoolers through first graders learn age-appropriate foundational math skills while having fun. The app is fast-paced and unpredictable, and kids will benefit from the wide variety of math skills that it covers.
Twist and Count-Pinball Math
Twist and Count-Pinball Math is a simple yet entertaining way to introduce young children or challenged math students to basic addition. The game features high-action animations, colorful graphics, and delightful sound effects.
Season of Tree: forest animals friends story
Season of Tree is a unique app full of wonderful images and great learning activities that allows little ones to explore nature from their home. Educational and fun to play!
Telling the Time Ages 4-5
Practice setting the clock, reading the clock, and learning the days of the week through a series of practice activities and timed quizzes.
MiniChess by Kasparov
MiniChess by Kasparov is an excellent app that will not only help young children learn to play chess, but that will also provide a wide array of practice on prerequisite skills, which just happen to be foundational for learning other things, as well.
The Land of Venn – Geometric Defense
Put your geometry skills to the test as you fight off invaders to save The Land of Venn in this tower defense game.
Up to 100
Up To 100 is an outstanding app that will help young children and those with special needs to master basic concepts about numbers, including ones and tens place value, number sequence, and more.
Telling Time with the Smurfs
Telling Time with The Smurfs is an incredible app that teaches children how to tell time using a wide variety of activities and games. Safe, fun, and highly educational!
Peg+Cat: The Tree Problem
Help! Cat is stuck in a tree and he needs kids’ help to get him down and safely back with Peg.
Number Train
Hop on the number train and travel along with it as kids learn to count out, sequence, and write the numbers 1 through 20.
Quick Math Jr.
Promote basic math skills by having kids interact with silly monsters as they improve their number recognition and counting skills through fun games.
Pretty Pet Math
Pretty Pet Math is a frogger-style game where kids solve math problems, but their pets must avoid the people crossing the street or risk losing a life.
MyBackpack
Replace the heavy books with Waterford Learning’s app full of digital stories, educational songs, and fun math review games.
My First 10monkeys Math App
Fly into outer space and help the monkeys solve basic math problems in My First 10monkeys Math App. This galactic educational app covers seven different math topics designed to introduce kids to basic math skills.
Tiggly Chef
Tiggly Chef will have your young children giggling, counting, giggling and counting some more as they assist the Chef of Tiggly Town to make some outrageous recipes.
Kid Awesome Kindergarten
Kid Awesome Kindergarten will really take young students through their paces, and they will hardly know it’s an educational app because it is so incredibly engaging.
Math Vs Zombies 2
Race to turn the zombies into humans while building basic math skills through 7 fun games and 84 levels of play.