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Happi & The Pirates
Review Excerpt: This is like a mashup of a grid game like battleship with a crossword puzzle; and you are rewarded with a jigsaw puzzle. You must use your “spell-power” ...
Dr. Panda’s Supermarket
Review Excerpt: One of a series of now over ten apps (see also Dr. Panda’s Daycare and Dr. Panda’s Beauty Salon) this app lets children manage their own supermarket, with ...
Play 123
Review Excerpt: Here’s a collection of ten “virtual manipulatives” – innovative minigames that are easy to learn and full of responsive play opportunities ...
Math vs Zombies
Review Excerpt: This app makes it fun to practice your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. Here’s how it works: you start out by watching a stream of zombies ...
Ten Giggly Gorillas
Review Excerpt: Ten Giggly Gorillas is like Five Little Monkeys. The story is enjoyable and the optional Read to Me narration by Angela Catterns is well done. The main feature of Ten ...
Pip and Posy: Fun and Games
Review Excerpt: These days you can find thousands of jigsaw puzzles, games of concentration and coloring books in the app store; but few are crafted this well. There are five games ...
Oh No Fractions!
Review Excerpt: In the right of passage determined by any standard elementary school curriculum, every child needs to know if 5/8 is more or less than 1/2. Here’s a free app that ...
Leo’s Pad Appisode 1
Review Excerpt: Leo’s Pad is best described as an interactive movie, divided into “appisodes.” After a short animated sequence, you participate in the story with four ...
Count to 100!
Review Excerpt: In this interactive counting board, you start by setting up your number board with a challenge, such as to skip count by 2s, 5s, 10s and 25s. There’s also a ...
Bugs and Numbers
Review Excerpt: Third in the series, Bugs and Numbers contains 18 games and activities, designed around a bug city. The app is organized into three basic stages, to grow with your child ...
Thinkin’ Things 1: Toony the Loon’s Lagoon
Review Excerpt: Back in the days of mono-touch and non-HD graphics, Thinkin’ Things was cutting edge. The first edition scored 5 stars back in 1993; one of the first and few software ...
Digits, The: Fraction Blast
Review Excerpt: This math app provides a playful experience with some of the concepts behind Singapore Math; namely numbers can be broken into parts, as long as you understand the common ...
Toca Band
Review Excerpt: In Toca Band, you start with an empty stage, with seven spots waiting to be filled. You get your choice of sixteen musicians to mix and match. You discover that some ...
Montessori Numbers
Review Excerpt: Four number sandboxes in one app are ideal for letting a preschooler freely experiment with the first mathematical relationships using number sets that range from 0 ...
Circuit Math
Review Excerpt: Designed for small or large screen play (for iPod Touch/iPhone or iPad), Circuit Math is a math puzzle where you create number pyramids by sliding sums around a pyramid-shaped ...
Tens Frame
Review Excerpt: A tens frame is a simple yet very effective tool for playing with numbers up to five and ten. This app provides a tens frame and ten counters, five blue and five purple. ...
Ten Giggly Gorillas
Review Excerpt: Ten Giggly Gorillas is like Five Little Monkeys. The story features optional Read to Me narration by Angela Catterns, as well as a separate Monkey Memory game featuring ...
Explorer Game Cartridge: Phineas and Ferb
Review Excerpt: This arcade-style game cartridge is designed for new LeapPad and Leapster Explorers (both this year and last year). It will not work on the original Leapster. In the ...
Bugs and Bubbles Earns a Rare 5 Star Rating
Bugs and Bubbles, $2.99, by Little Bit Studio, LLC http://itunes.apple.com/app/bugs-and-bubbles/id500195730?ls=1&mt=8
Fun, fast and good for building emerging math skills, Bugs ...
GazziliShapes
Review Excerpt: This structured set of six puzzle challenges provide practice finding and matching the basic shapes. The challenge level varies, for example, to get across a screen, ...
Monster Mutt Rescue
Review excerpt: This is a virtual pet simulation that lets you raise a pet monster, starting as a larva. The more you play, the more stuff you can unlock. This includes access to other ...
Kindergarten Addition
Review excerpt: This app features eight learning activities designed to demonstrate and teach addition in different ways. The start screen requires no reading and there are visual narrated ...
Math Doodles
Review Excerpt: Math Doodles consists of four hand drawn activities: Sums Stacker, Connect Sums, Unknown square and a preview (but functional) version of Splat GoRound. Each lets you ...
Number Bonds
Review excerpt: This app consists of a set of virtual Cuisenaire rods, which must be arranged properly in order to unlock the next level. Features include the ability to remember progress ...
Motion Math: Wings
Review excerpt: If you’ve ever played a game like Doodle Jump or Scoops, where you lean the iPad screen from side to side in order climb higher, you get the idea of Motion Math ...
Counting with the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Review excerpt: The traditional print edition of Eric Carle’s classic book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, is an effective way to let children informally discover quantity, as they ...
Tick Bait’s Universe
Review excerpt: This is a power of 10 app, that lets you explore the really big and the extremely small. You start with a view of a back yard, with a dirty dog named Tick Bait. You ...
Finger Math
Review excerpt: What to learn a little “chisenbop?” Here’s your app. This app teaches you how to turn your fingers into a calculator. You start be learning how to ...
Team Umizoomi
Review excerpt: This one player problem solving adventure features Milli, Geo, and Bot from the Umizoomi Nickelodeon show. In order to rebuild a submarine, children move through 25 ...
Playful Minds: Math
Review excerpt: Want to see what the home-based math curriculum of the iPad age looks like? Designed by the highly regarded French app developer, GameLoft, Playful Minds is a $3 iPad-based ...
Eddy’s Number Party, The
Review excerpt: This app features four levels, ranging from counting (drag a set of balloons to the matching numeral) to a game of concentration that involves matching sets of dots ...
Bugs and Buttons
Review excerpt: Once you get past the idea of touching the swarms of realistic roaches, ants, or bees, children quickly fall for this collection of 18 counting and classification activities. ...
Nikoli’s Pencil Puzzle
Review excerpt: This is a collection of 600 puzzles for one player. Games include Sudoku – the classic numbers game in 3D; Bridges – link all the islands on the screen with ...
Jim Henson’s Sid’s Science Fair
Review excerpt: Put a science center in your iPad, with this collection of three activities, featuring Sid the Science Kid characters. Following a noisy introduction — just like ...
Fortune Street
Review excerpt: Combine the board game Monopoly with the zany spirit of Nintendo and you get Fortune Street, a fast-paced business game that contains 15 game boards based on popular ...
Fetch Lunch Rush
Review excerpt: One of the first ever math facts programs to use augmented reality, Lunch Rush provides an “out of device” experience. Here’s how it works. After you ...
Pokémon Rumble Blast
Review excerpt: You heard it right, Pokémon fans — 3D, for the first time. The game contains 600 Pokémon, including the libraries from both Pokémon Black and Pokémon White.
There’s ...
Motion Math Zoom
Review excerpt: This math app turns your iPad into a stretchable number line, letting children freely play with the relationship between quantity and space, just like silly putty. This ...
MathTastic Subtraction
Review excerpt: Turn your iPad into a small chalk board and your finger into a piece of chalk, with this free subtraction toolkit. Content starts with single digits and moves you through ...
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