Some are designed for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, and some work on Android devices and Kindle Fire. They're great for the car, doctor's waiting room, sibling ball games, and homework. Research on math apps shows that your child's basic math skills can improve by playing these games. I have observed that my students work harder and longer on math problems in a game app than they do on problems on worksheets. And that concentrated effort is what improves their basic math skills and test scores.
Free apps usually include a small bit of advertising. Or they are a starter set of more comprehensive math games and lessons. Either way, these apps provide lots of learning fun before you spend real money for educational apps. I do my best to ensure this list is current and that the apps are free. Sometimes developers begin charging for an app that was previously free.
If you see one listed that is no longer free, please leave a comment at the bottom of this post. For your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, go to the iTunes App Store. For your Kindle Fire, go to the Amazon App Store. For other Android tablets and smartphones, go to the Google Play Store. Learn is an all-inclusive award-winning app designed for use by children from age 2-8. Familiar cartoon characters engage kids in games to help them learn their numbers, counting, shapes, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, place value, and telling time.
Characters from PBS Kids, Disney, Thomas the Train, Teletubbies, Blues Clues and Winnie the Pooh help to keep the kids engaged and the learning fun. This app has lots of great activities for reading skills too! Take a space adventure to learn many math skills with the award-winning Mathmateer Free (formerly Rocket Math) app.
You design your own rocket and fly to the stars, learning about numbers, counting, money, telling time, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, 3D shapes and even a bit of algebra. The Kid Math Game app helps kids practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in an arcade-type game. Kids match equations to the correct number.
You can play solo or against another child or parent. And you can choose to include negative numbers in the mix. Do your kids use math apps, Sign in or sign up and post using a HubPages Network account. 0 of 8192 characters usedPost CommentNo HTML is allowed in comments, but URLs will be hyperlinked. Comments are not for promoting your articles or other sites. Hi Jeff, always helpful to hear about new free math apps.
Visually, the app is appealing. The game covers basic math addition skills using numbers 0-9. I see some games are locked, as are subtraction, multiplication and division, which, I assume, are features to be purchased. The biggest drawback I see to the games are the worded instructions and prompts. They are beyond the reading level of children learning beginning math facts. So the game requires the assistance of an older person to read the instructions. Also, I think the box dropping game needs to be somehow connected the questions the child answers correctly.
We have a free kids Math game called Box Drop Math Addition, a fun game for mastering math facts that is now free in all the app stores! Thanks for the tip, James, and for the link. Looks like a very useful math app! I am a senior high school student and I just finished this iOS app named "Triangle." This is an app that teaches students about the four centers of a triangle. Students can watch how the centers move around on the screen by dragging the vertices.
I once had a hard time learning this chapter when I was in 9th grade. It was difficult to imagine the centers in so many different positions, especially those outside the triangle area. I played this with my daughter and found it to be interesting and challenging. It would certainly be useful in a classroom math center rotation for children learning addition fact families in grades 1, 2 and 3. Thank you for sharing it, David.
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