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Free Math Apps March 11, 2015

3/11/2015

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Who doesn't love some free math apps! Check out the three awesome free for a limited time apps.


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Picture Math
This app uses visuals and counting blocks to help teach students ages 5-12+. If students have difficulties, it will also provide supports by making the problem easier and/or giving hints.

5th Grade Math Planet
This app contains 30+ math activities for students to do that all center around the Common Core Standards. One of the best parts, is the games adapted to the learner. If they are struggling, it will provide assistance and/or clues to help solve the math problems.
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Middle School Math Planet
Nothing says fun like Middle School Math! This app from the same developer of 5th Grade Math Planet also contains 30+ math activities aligned to Common Core. It also features the same adaptive features.
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New Apps to Start the Year

1/2/2015

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Here are some FREE educational and creative apps to start the New Year off right!

Creative

Lego City: My City offers a variety of mini games that engages both a student's brain and body. Students will be challenged to drive a race car, unload trains in a logical fashion, and even drive a snowmobile through the arctic.

All mini games are short, so this apps works great in rooms where iPads are limited.
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Another Lego title that may find a place on your iPads is Lego Fusion: Town Master. This app is meant to integrate with Lego's Fusion series toys, but can be used as a stand alone app. Think Minecraft simplified with Legos.

Multiple cities can be created after a few tutorial mini-games, so it could be possible for each student to have their own city on one iPad, or better yet, let each student add onto the classroom city!

Sometimes teachers just need a simple coloring app, well, behold Live Colors for Kids. On the surface the app is simple, but it hides a interesting coloring app twist, students can learn to blend colors! Using the palette, students can learn to mix colors to get a variety of paints.
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English/Language Arts

Word Joust is another app from the creators of Edmodo that tests students vocabulary skills in a variety of ways.

There are actually two apps, Word Joust K-5 and Word Joust 6-8. Both are technically iPhone apps, but they will work on a iPad just fine.


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This app, Story Lines, from the creators of Edmodo turns your iPad into a creative writing tool. This app takes the classic telephone game and amps it up a couple of notches. 

This app is perfect for a classroom full of iPads and even just one. This app could also be used in any discipline with a little creativity. 

Math

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Tiggly Chef: Preschool Math Cooking Game provides young learners with simple and fun explanations of the mathematical process. 

As an added bonus, students create crazy food dishes that contain things like peppers, jellybeans, and eggs!

There are a variety of other Tiggly apps available including a neat number line app.

There are two types of people in this world, regular folk and those who understand Trig. Trig Math Pro is here for us regular folk. This app takes a classic flash card approach, but provides great feedback when a student answers incorrectly. 

The developer, Mathtoons, also offers several other math apps in the subjects of Algebra Basics & Advanced, Logarithms, Exponents, Equations, Geometry, Number Skills, and Calculus.
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Special Education

Emotionary allows educators to create a diary/journal of their students emotional states. It allows students to input entries through words, pictures, or even sound. The sound feature makes it great for speech teachers also!

This app allows you to track multiple students on one iPad making it a perfect fit for all Special Education and even General classroom teachers.
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"Wow, it is cold enough to freeze your...um...butt off out there!" See what I did there, that is a idiom and there are students out there that have a hard time understanding them. Well Idiom Stories is there to help those learners out.

This app helps students understand the ideas and explanations behind popular idioms in a fun and comical manner.
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Money Counting Apps

11/7/2014

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Recently I was asked if I knew of any good money counting apps. Like any good tech guy I said, of course I do, and then quickly consulted Google and its infinite wisdom.

After diving and sifting through the good, the bad, and the ugly, I came up with seven pretty good money counting apps.

You can view these apps by checking out this OneTab, Money Counting Apps.

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MyScript CalculatorĀ 

3/11/2014

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MyScript Calculator allows you or a student to perform all the functions of a calculator using honest to goodness handwriting. 

Now you may be thinking, "I'll show this app, I am going to find the cosine of this hypotenuse triangle. No way can it do that." Well, you are mistaken! 

According to the App Store this bad boy can handle mathematical operations I haven't heard since my days sitting in Mr. Tass' Geometry class. Below you can see all the supported operators:

• Basic operations: +, -, ×, ÷, / 
• Powers, Roots, Exponentials: 7², √, ∛, e³
• Misc. Operations: %, |5|, 3! 
• Brackets: ( )
• Trigonometry: cos, sin, tan, cot, cosh, sinh, tanh
• Inverse trigonometry: acos, asin, atan
• Logarithms: ln, log 
• Constants: π, e, phi.




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Justin Cowen
Dickinson-Iron Intermediate School District
1074 Pyle Drive
Kingsford, MI 49802