iPad/iPhone Apps
Below are some apps that the 1/2 teams at Driscoll recommend. Many of them have different levels of challenge to engage students at multiple grade levels. Our favorite feature: many of these apps are free!
Free Games: Hungry Fish, Motion Math Zoom, Mathtopia, Little Monkeys Number Lines
Free Games: Hungry Fish, Motion Math Zoom, Mathtopia, Little Monkeys Number Lines
Hungry Fish
Link to App Store: Hungry Fish by Motion Math
Price: Free
A great game for practicing addition and subtraction, as well as breaking apart numbers. The higher levels can be very challenging, even for older elementary students.
Feed your fish and play with numbers! Practice mental addition and subtraction with Motion Math: Hungry Fish, a delightful learning game that's fun for children and grownups.
Your fish is hungry for numbers. You can make delicious sums by pinching two numbers together – instant addition! Keep feeding your fish to win a level and unlock new colors and fins.
Price: Free
A great game for practicing addition and subtraction, as well as breaking apart numbers. The higher levels can be very challenging, even for older elementary students.
Feed your fish and play with numbers! Practice mental addition and subtraction with Motion Math: Hungry Fish, a delightful learning game that's fun for children and grownups.
Your fish is hungry for numbers. You can make delicious sums by pinching two numbers together – instant addition! Keep feeding your fish to win a level and unlock new colors and fins.
Motion Math Zoom: Number Line
Link to App Store: Motion Math Zoom by Motion Math
Price: Free
This engaging game helps children build an internal number line -- a very helpful idea for later grades! Higher levels work well for older kids (up through 6th grade).
Motion Math Zoom's zoomable, stretchable number line is missing some numbers - it's up to your child to put the numbers back where they belong. The new game uses concrete objects to represent abstract numbers: from dinosaurs in the thousands down to amoebas in the thousandths. Fun animal animations and sound effects help elementary school children master the number line.
Price: Free
This engaging game helps children build an internal number line -- a very helpful idea for later grades! Higher levels work well for older kids (up through 6th grade).
Motion Math Zoom's zoomable, stretchable number line is missing some numbers - it's up to your child to put the numbers back where they belong. The new game uses concrete objects to represent abstract numbers: from dinosaurs in the thousands down to amoebas in the thousandths. Fun animal animations and sound effects help elementary school children master the number line.
Subitize Tree HD (iPad only)
Link to App Store: Subitize Tree HD by Doodle Smith Ink
Price: $0.99
To subitize (pronounced soo-bi-tize) is to instantly recognize a small quantity of objects without counting. Subitizing helps build number sense, promotes fluency, and helps with addition and subtraction. This game allows kids to practice subitizing with different objects (cards, fingers on a hand, dominoes, etc.)
Welcome to The Subitize Tree! This is the newest app from TeacherTipster.com! The object of the game is simple. Owl, frog, snail and many more of the forest animals have gotten trapped inside the Subitize Tree. You must perfect your subitizing skills in order to save our animal friends. Save all ten animals to beat the game and become a master subitizer!
Price: $0.99
To subitize (pronounced soo-bi-tize) is to instantly recognize a small quantity of objects without counting. Subitizing helps build number sense, promotes fluency, and helps with addition and subtraction. This game allows kids to practice subitizing with different objects (cards, fingers on a hand, dominoes, etc.)
Welcome to The Subitize Tree! This is the newest app from TeacherTipster.com! The object of the game is simple. Owl, frog, snail and many more of the forest animals have gotten trapped inside the Subitize Tree. You must perfect your subitizing skills in order to save our animal friends. Save all ten animals to beat the game and become a master subitizer!
Mathtopia
Link to App Store: Mathtopia by Omega Labs
Price: Free (Higher levels available for $0.99 each. Full version, called Mathtopia+, costs $3.99)
This game helps practice basic addition in a (watch out!) highly addictive format, similar to the game Bejeweled. The free version is fully suitable for our entering first grade students.
The puzzle game play is similar to popular jewel swapping games but with multi-touch swap, enabling more complicated and challenging matching for addicts of tile-matching puzzlers. True addicts can match their skills against others on Game Center and unlock secret levels. Reduce stress while training the brain.
Price: Free (Higher levels available for $0.99 each. Full version, called Mathtopia+, costs $3.99)
This game helps practice basic addition in a (watch out!) highly addictive format, similar to the game Bejeweled. The free version is fully suitable for our entering first grade students.
The puzzle game play is similar to popular jewel swapping games but with multi-touch swap, enabling more complicated and challenging matching for addicts of tile-matching puzzlers. True addicts can match their skills against others on Game Center and unlock secret levels. Reduce stress while training the brain.
Little Monkeys: Friends of Ten
Link to App Store: Friends of Ten by Aleesha Kondys
Price: $0.99
This game uses the popular (and immensely helpful!) Tens Frame math tool (see the image at left) to build number sense.
Little Monkey Apps Friends of Ten is an activity to be used in the early years of schooling to introduce an early understanding of numbers to ten, counting objects to ten, subitising - recognising a collection of objects without counting them, counting on from a higher number, partitioning of objects and the combinations that make ten 8+2, 2+8, 1+9, 3+7 etc. These skills underpin mental addition and subtraction.
Price: $0.99
This game uses the popular (and immensely helpful!) Tens Frame math tool (see the image at left) to build number sense.
Little Monkey Apps Friends of Ten is an activity to be used in the early years of schooling to introduce an early understanding of numbers to ten, counting objects to ten, subitising - recognising a collection of objects without counting them, counting on from a higher number, partitioning of objects and the combinations that make ten 8+2, 2+8, 1+9, 3+7 etc. These skills underpin mental addition and subtraction.
MathTappers: Number Line
Link to App Store: MathTappers Number Line by HeavyLifters Network Ltd.
Price: Free
The MathTappers motto is play, explore, understand! With that in mind, students will explore the relative positions of numbers on a number line, helping them build number sense. Higher levels of this game are appropriate for older students.
This game allows players to develop their understanding of our number system and their proportional reasoning skills by giving them an opportunity to consider the relative positions of whole, integer and real numbers on a numberline.
Price: Free
The MathTappers motto is play, explore, understand! With that in mind, students will explore the relative positions of numbers on a number line, helping them build number sense. Higher levels of this game are appropriate for older students.
This game allows players to develop their understanding of our number system and their proportional reasoning skills by giving them an opportunity to consider the relative positions of whole, integer and real numbers on a numberline.
MathTappers: Find Sums
Link to App Store: Find Sums by HeavyLifters Network Ltd.
Price: Free
This app encourages students to work quickly to add up to different target numbers (e.g. 6, 10, 15, 100...). Students can practice with a visual model (apples in a ten frame, pictured at left) first, and then move onto the more abstract part-part whole model.
MathTappers: Find Sums is a simple game designed to help learners to make sense of addition (and subtraction as a related operation), and then to support them in developing accuracy and improving their speed.
Price: Free
This app encourages students to work quickly to add up to different target numbers (e.g. 6, 10, 15, 100...). Students can practice with a visual model (apples in a ten frame, pictured at left) first, and then move onto the more abstract part-part whole model.
MathTappers: Find Sums is a simple game designed to help learners to make sense of addition (and subtraction as a related operation), and then to support them in developing accuracy and improving their speed.