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Math Apps
Tangram Puzzles |
Description: Tangram puzzle encourages the use of tangram pieces to solve different tangram puzzles. It includes many templates for lots of enjoyment.
Rationale: This app includes geometric shapes and uses tangram pieces. Price: $1.99 |
Geoboard, by The Math Learning Center |
Description: This virtual geoboard provides your child with the opportunity to use geoboards at home. He/she can stretch the bands to create line segments, polygons, and explore angles and congruency.
Rationale: Provides students with opportunities to create shapes and angles. Price: Free |
Montessori Geometry |
Description: This app allows your child to learn 2D and 3D geometric shapes. It also helps your child realize that shapes are all around them.
Rationale: Includes geometric shapes and promotes shapes in the real world. Price: Free |
Geometry 4 Kids |
Description: This app provides your child with many opportunities for geometric learning. The app contains many different learning modules so your child can work at their own pace.
Rationale: Includes many geometric concept such as polygons, symmetry, and congruency. Price: $1.99 |
Geometry Pad+ |
Description: Geometry Pad+ is a geometric app for the iPad. Geometry Pad+ allows your child to create geometric shapes and explore and change their properties.
Rationale: Children can create geometric shapes and manipulate them in different ways. Price: Free |
Literacy Apps
popplet lite |
Description: popplet lite is an idea mapping application. This app allows your child to organize their thoughts and ideas in a visual manner. popplet lite can be used to explore different ideas and thoughts, plan projects, record thoughts, and study.
Rationale: This app organizes students thoughts and can be used in the prewriting process. Price: Free |
StoryKit |
Description: StoryKit is an interactive application that allows the user to create an electronic story. With this app you can write the text, create the illustrations, and add different sounds to create your own, unique story.
Rationale: StoryKit encourages writing and story creation. Price: Free |
Textropolis |
Description: Visit 30 different cities and create your own Textropolis. At each city, your child must find and create the hidden words in the city. If your child does not know the word that he/she created a dictionary feature can be used to learn a new word. This app gets your child thinking in a fun way!
Rationale: This app requires word recognition and letter association skills. |
iF Poems |
Description: iF Poems is a poetry app that provides 270 poems. With this application, you can read and listen to poetry, record yourself reading a poem and send the recording to someone, and you can write your own poetry and save it on the app.
Rationale: Includes listening to, reading, and writing poetry. Price: $2.99 |
BrainPOP |
Description: BrainPOP provides an educational video and activity every day. The videos have comprehension questions that are presented in an exciting multimedia format. There are videos about Science, Math, Social Studies, English, and other areas of instruction. All the movies are colse captioned, so that your child can read along.
Rationale: This app encourages reading, listening, and comprehension skills in various educational categories. Price: Free |
*All app images are screenshots from the individual app's website, referenced below.
References:
BrainPOP was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brainpop-featured-movie/id364894352?mt=8
Geoboard, by The Math Learning Center was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/geoboard-by-math-learning/id519896952?mt=8
Geometry Pad+ was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geometry-pad/id517461177?mt=8
Geometry 4 Kids was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geometry-4-kids/id446626897?mt=8
iF Poems was retrieved from:https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/if-poems/id474446630?mt=8
Montessori Geometry was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/montessori-geometry/id544726604?mt=8
popplet lite was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popplet-lite/id364738549?mt=8
StoryKit was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storykit/id329374595?mt=8
Tangram Puzzles was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/ua/app/tangram-puzzles/id440216395?mt=8
Textropolis was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/textropolis/id301643671?mt=8
BrainPOP was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brainpop-featured-movie/id364894352?mt=8
Geoboard, by The Math Learning Center was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/geoboard-by-math-learning/id519896952?mt=8
Geometry Pad+ was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geometry-pad/id517461177?mt=8
Geometry 4 Kids was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geometry-4-kids/id446626897?mt=8
iF Poems was retrieved from:https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/if-poems/id474446630?mt=8
Montessori Geometry was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/montessori-geometry/id544726604?mt=8
popplet lite was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popplet-lite/id364738549?mt=8
StoryKit was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storykit/id329374595?mt=8
Tangram Puzzles was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/ua/app/tangram-puzzles/id440216395?mt=8
Textropolis was retrieved from: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/textropolis/id301643671?mt=8