Smart Apps For Kids

Good Free App of the Day: Matific is terrific for educational math games!

A free math app for teachers and schools? How terrific! I love math apps, and one with over 1000 activities, designed by math experts, is a great find. The parent version is free to download with a subscription for full access. 

Teachers definitely need to add this app to their resources for math. Free access for both web and app versions provide engaging activities, worksheets and lesson plans. Matific is aligned with national and state curricula and mapped to many popular textbooks. What a win!

Get new Top Pick Crazy Gears for half price through April 9!

 

 

Bottom Line: The folks at Seven Academy have made my day. Crazy Gears is an app that opens up a world of play revolving around gears and pulleys and problem solving. It’s a free-play app about how things work together! Your kids will put their creative problem-solving skills to use the moment they start playing Crazy Gears.

This brand new app is 50 percent off until April 9.

Best apps for math: The Counting Kingdom is a Top Pick for addition and problem solving! *REDUCED for a limited time!*

 

 

Bottom Line: A very well designed app to target math and math problem solving skills for kids ages 6-8, but fun for older kids, too. Monsters with numbers are combined to equal the sum on a spell card. Potions can be used to manipulate the monster numbers, and any number of combinations is possible. Great for critical thinking!

**Reduced to $.99 for a limited time! Don't miss this Top Pick for a reduced price!**

Good Free App of the Day: Paperama - Origami for the digital age

Paperama is Origami for the digital age.

I could never fold paper into little animals or stars or hearts. I really couldn't even make a decent paper airplane. But Paperama has me folding virtual paper with the  skill of an artist. Its an app that challenges your precision hand-eye coordination and problem solving skills. 

Paperama is FREE. It does have in-app purchases to open up addtional levels, but the amount of free content is definitely worth a look.

New Top Pick! Equate Formula Solver is FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME! And it isn't just for the nerds among us. And you KNOW who you are.

 

 

Bottom Line: Equate Formula Solver is a handy app from the developers at Nurdture to help us navigate the many math and science formulas intended to help us. But it’s not scary . . .  really. It’s exciting and massive and easy to use. For older kids all the way up to adults, this app is one that you should have in your arsenal. FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME!