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Description: The Equivalent Fractions game by McGraw Hill offers a quick and easy way to practice and reinforce fraction concepts and relationships. This game runs on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod. The cost is $1.99.
Description: AFactorTree helps students master prime factorization, least common multiples, greatest common divisors or greatest common factors, and the addition of fractions.
This app encourages curious young scientists to think just like one. They can explore details of common objects (leaves, pasta, toys…), categorize and count things with a chart that they build themselves, and observe visually interesting changes (plants grow, volcanoes erupt, ice melts…). They can also laugh while playing the changes in reverse using the “time machine” (plant shrinks back into a seed). All three games pose challenges and provide feedback for correct answers while letting kids play at their own pace, and explore in their own way.
The games could go further in their support of scientific thinking, for example, by guiding players to identify which chart category has “more” or “less”, or to think about which changes are reversible and which are not in real life. Students also learn some scientific terms like “compare and contrast data” but most of the value of this app is in the way that it lets them play the role of a scientist who wonders about the world and makes new discoveries.
Many of the activities involve common objects that parents can find around the house to extend the activities off-screen. Cost: $2.99.
This app provides a number of more visual writing prompts such as news snippets, or visual words prompts, etc. In the scenes area you are presented with textual prompts on setting, character, an object, and time/date. The app is also great for helping students overcome writers’ block.
Explore the physical geography of our amazing planet with this engaging app.
Description: A unique, fun, easy, and effective way to teach young learners how to read a clock face and tell time. An option to hear the instructions aloud or to read them is available. The ability to repeat the instructions is also a great feature of this app. Friendly Canadian beavers make it an adventure to explore learning how to tell time for students.