Math
When researching Math apps, many different apps have come and gone since I did a presentation on apps in 2015. I've listed below some of the apps that have endured the test of time. If you utilize iPads or Chromebooks, you can easily find additional apps by doing your own search. There are also some web-based apps listed below that are available as apps. One of the websites that I really like is MathTrain.tv. As you will see, I used the idea of student-created tutorials along with a math teacher to create their tutorials. The teacher and the students enjoyed the process and were proud of their creations.
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Gridlines: Ordered Pair Game is a math app for upper elementary and middle school students that helps students enjoy practicing plotting ordered pairs on a coordinate grid in all four quadrants. The objective of this game is to score the highest points by using ordered pairs and drawing a line that passes through or touches shapes located in all four quadrants of the coordinate grid. Grid Lines is a Battleship-style math app that teaches students the coordinate plane. Students will get practice plotting points on a coordinate plane by playing a game similar to Battleship.
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HoodaMath is a free online math games site. Founded by a middle school math teacher, Hooda Math offers over 700 cool math games. The mobile app has 20 math games taken from HoodaMath.com.
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Mathtrain.tv features student-created tutorials. With a “kids teaching kids” model, students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA create video math tutorials. You can watch and listen to their step-by-step explanations of math problems. As a technology coordinator, I used their model to work with a math teacher wanting to utilize technology to help students improve their math skills. What we wound up doing is mixing groups in a way that each group had one student who was struggling with a math concept in the beginning. The goal was to create their video explanation in a way by the end, the students struggling now understood the concept.
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Matific develops mathematical excellence and problem-solving skills through playful interaction. The app features hundreds of math games and activities for ages 4-11, organized according to national math teaching programs and popular textbooks. It is designed by world-class early-age math education experts and is based on vast experience with math teaching and research. Teachers receive a 30-day free trial. Subscription costs $9.99/month or $78.99/year.
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Probability Toolkit provides teachers and students with a collection of virtual mathematical devices to simulate probability experiments. The experiments use popular math manipulatives to help students better understand probability theory and statistics. It is perfect for elementary and middle school classrooms. Enrich your mathematics curriculum with the Probability Toolkit. Probability Devices: Coin Toss Experiment, Gumball Machine Experiment, Dice Roll Experiment, Random Numbers Experiment, Spinners Experiment, and Binomial Machine Experiment.
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Prodigy Math Game is an educational fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) The player takes the role of a wizard, who, whilst undertaking quests to collect gems, must battle against the Puppet Master. These quests usually involve battling monsters in different areas of the in-game map. Prodigy's Memberships are paid subscriptions that unlock extra in-game features and student benefits. These engaging and fun incentives can help boost the time spent learning and answering math and English questions. Members can also become more motivated to spend extra time playing Prodigy and level up their math skills. The more students play, the more insight teachers can get into their progress and learning. Parents also benefit from a Membership too. If a student already has one, their parent or guardian will automatically be able to get the following features in their parent account:
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Speaking Times Table learn and then be tested on times tables, with fantastic speaking sums. Simple, making it easy to understand. Fun and engaging sounds with a cute monkey theme across the app. Tell your child when they get a sum wrong, showing the correct answer to ensure they remember it. - Final scoreboard with results to show kids if they went wrong.
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Teachley: Mt. Multiplis teaches complex multiplication strategies to students in the 3rd to 5th grades. Mt. Multiplis is an engaging game that teaches multiplication using commutative and distributive properties. Mt. Multiplis scaffolds learning to promote conceptual understanding, efficiency with multiplication strategies, and fact fluency.
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TowerStorm for Math & Literacy is a competition-oriented, real-time, multiplayer action game for Elementary, Middle, and High School students. The app is free and requires a valid DimensionU user account.
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