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Quick Math+ App Review – Quick Math Made Even Quicker

By Emily On December 3, 2013 · Add Comment

Let me repeat this again, for the folks who may not have read it before: I loathe math. I’m awful at it, it confuses me, it makes my brain hurt. If the App Store existed when I was a kid I may be singing a different song about math, but fortunately for kids these days they don’t have to go through the torture of textbooks and private tutors to help learn math skills. (I’m not exaggerating – math is my own personal torture.) Last February we reviewed Sakura Quick Math, a well-executed math app that had a few minor flaws. We liked the basic format of the app – math questions that players can answer by writing the problems anywhere on the screen – but a few technical glitches were holding it back from being a real All Star app. The folks over at Shiny Things noticed and in [...]

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Peg + Cat Big Gig App Review – Fun With Math + Music

By Emily On November 15, 2013 · Add Comment

When it comes to parenting, multi-tasking is a skill that is quickly learned and often utilized. It starts early on in your children’s lives – for example, catching a naked toddler who escaped during a diaper change while simultaneously answering the door to get that important FedEx package while simultaneously trying to prevent said naked child from hopping on the FedEx truck for a ride-along. For example. I also appreciate educational apps that serve a dual learning purpose, like the recent release Peg + Cat Big Gig. Based on the PBS KIDS television show that premiered this fall, the app helps to teach both music and math early learning skills to the 3-5 crowd. The adorable cast of characters are recognizable to young players and fun mini-games multi-task as educational tools. There are two separate sections of the app, Big Gig or Sound Check. The real learning happens in Big [...]

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Amigo Pancho App Review – A Fiesta For Your iPad

By Emily On November 8, 2013 · Add Comment

Let’s talk about physics for a minute. And I promise you it’ll only be a minute because that’s the time it will take to impart to you all of my physics knowledge. Ready? Physics is what helps me propel my body over my small children when they decide to stop in their tracks as we walk through the aisles of the grocery store. WOW, that was taxing for my brain. Physics is also a really important concept for school-aged kids to learn to build a strong foundation of knowledge in both math and science. It’s also the basis for game play in the new app Amigo Pancho. A sombrero-touting Pancho travels through obstacles such as rockets and sword-wielding ninjas, holding on for dear life to his two balloons. (I promise this isn’t a hallucination from overworking my brain.) Under deep cover as a really fun and challenging game, Amigo [...]

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Paint Me A Butterfly App Review – The Art Of Nature

By Emily On November 5, 2013 · Add Comment

My iPad is (understandably) overflowing with educational apps for kids. I can rest assured that 99% of the time, when the kids are playing on the device, that they’re also learning something. There is that 1% of the time though where they just like to play, full stop. I like to make sure that when they are having fun, the app they choose has some hidden educational content – it’s kind of like sneaking zucchini into fudge brownies. Paint Me A Butterfly is a truly fun app that also sneaks some zucchini into the brownies. It’s an art-based painting app where players – even as young as 2 – can create and curate a beautiful garden of butterflies. There are several different customization options and finished creations are saved in a garden where they can also be printed and shared. Underneath all of the pretty colors, though, [...]

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Jake’s Never Land Shapes And Patterns App Review – Shape Up And Ship Out

By Emily On October 29, 2013 · Add Comment

Shape recognition is an integral part of building an early learning math skill foundation.Yesterday my 5-year-old and I were having a contest to see how many shapes we could make by arranging our fingers together. Diamonds, squares, and circles were easy – it was the hexagon and isosceles triangle that proved to be tricky. Luckily for us – and other families that have been confronted with the menace of complicated finger shapes – there’s Jake’s Never Land Shapes and Patterns. Now fingers are used for tapping and swapping, eliminating the need to contort digits into impossibly geometric configurations. I write this all tongue-in-cheek, but this particular app goes back to my original statement about shape recognition and its importance in building early math skills. Using popular animated characters from a Disney franchise, Shapes and Patterns offer young players three different minigames to keep little ones [...]

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Educational & Learning Apps for the iPad and iPad mini

Quick Math+ App Review – Quick Math Made Even Quicker

Peg + Cat Big Gig App Review – Fun With Math + Music

Amigo Pancho App Review – A Fiesta For Your iPad

Paint Me A Butterfly App Review – The Art Of Nature

Jake’s Never Land Shapes And Patterns App Review – Shape Up And Ship Out

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Quick Math+ App Review – Quick Math Made Even Quicker

Peg + Cat Big Gig App Review – Fun With Math + Music

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