Below are some apps that the 3rd and 4th grade teams at Driscoll recommend. Many of them have different levels of challenge to engage students at multiple grade levels. Our favorite feature: most of these apps are free!
Free Games: Motion Math Zoom, Motion Math Wings, Door 24, Pick-a-Path, Fractions+, Sushi Monster, all MathTappers games (Number Line, Multiples, etc.), and basic levels of Mathtopia
Free Games: Motion Math Zoom, Motion Math Wings, Door 24, Pick-a-Path, Fractions+, Sushi Monster, all MathTappers games (Number Line, Multiples, etc.), and basic levels of Mathtopia
Motion Math: Wings
Link to App Store: Wings by Motion Math
Price: Free, more levels available for $
Wings is a fantastic game for understanding multiplication. Easier levels build a basic understanding and connect different visual representations, while harder levels rely on sophisticated -- and quick paced -- estimation and reasoning. For ages 4 - 12.
Practice mental multiplying and estimation with Motion Math: Wings! This fun math game helps children ages 4 and up develop a conceptual understanding using six different visual forms. It's simple to play – you just tilt your bird to the bigger number.
Price: Free, more levels available for $
Wings is a fantastic game for understanding multiplication. Easier levels build a basic understanding and connect different visual representations, while harder levels rely on sophisticated -- and quick paced -- estimation and reasoning. For ages 4 - 12.
Practice mental multiplying and estimation with Motion Math: Wings! This fun math game helps children ages 4 and up develop a conceptual understanding using six different visual forms. It's simple to play – you just tilt your bird to the bigger number.
Motion Math: MATCH
Link to App Store: Match by Motion Math
Price: $3.99 (iPad only)
Match helps build fluency with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. Levels increase in difficulty as students are asked to find equivalent expressions (e.g. 4x3 = 6x2), and to combine tiles for extra points.
Motion Math: Match features addition, subtraction, multiplication, division...and magical number tiles.
"One of the most engaging games ever...magical" - Teachers with Apps
Price: $3.99 (iPad only)
Match helps build fluency with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts. Levels increase in difficulty as students are asked to find equivalent expressions (e.g. 4x3 = 6x2), and to combine tiles for extra points.
Motion Math: Match features addition, subtraction, multiplication, division...and magical number tiles.
"One of the most engaging games ever...magical" - Teachers with Apps
Motion Math Zoom: Number Line
Link to App Store: Motion Math Zoom by Motion Math
Price: Free for Zoom / $5.99 for Zoom Pro
This engaging game helps children build an internal number line -- a very helpful idea for the upper elementary 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 for Zoom / $5.99 for Zoom Pro
This engaging game helps children build an internal number line -- a very helpful idea for the upper elementary 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.
MOTION MATH: Fractions
Link to App Store: Motion Math / Motion Math HD (iPad only)
Price: $1.99 for iPhone / $3.99 for iPad
One of our favorite apps! Motion Math improves students' understanding of fractions in multiple representations (e.g. on a number line, a picture, etc.) -- and is really fun!
Developed at the Stanford School of Education, Motion Math HD follows a star that has fallen from space, and must bound back up, up, up to its home in the stars. Moving fractions to their correct place on the number line is the only way to return. By playing Motion Math, learners improve their ability to perceive and estimate fractions in multiple forms.
Price: $1.99 for iPhone / $3.99 for iPad
One of our favorite apps! Motion Math improves students' understanding of fractions in multiple representations (e.g. on a number line, a picture, etc.) -- and is really fun!
Developed at the Stanford School of Education, Motion Math HD follows a star that has fallen from space, and must bound back up, up, up to its home in the stars. Moving fractions to their correct place on the number line is the only way to return. By playing Motion Math, learners improve their ability to perceive and estimate fractions in multiple forms.
MOTION MATH: QUESTIMATE!
Link to App Store: Questimate! (iPad only)
Price: Free / additional content available for purchase
A truly engaging app! Users create their own questions using prompts about animals, geography, world records, and more.
How many giraffes would be as tall as the Statue of Liberty? How fast is the world's fastest train? How many jelly beans would it take to fill up a soccer ball? In what year was the cell phone invented?
Questimate! (for iPad and iPad mini) has thousands of fascinating questions for you to create, estimate, and share. Fun and challenging for the whole family.
Price: Free / additional content available for purchase
A truly engaging app! Users create their own questions using prompts about animals, geography, world records, and more.
How many giraffes would be as tall as the Statue of Liberty? How fast is the world's fastest train? How many jelly beans would it take to fill up a soccer ball? In what year was the cell phone invented?
Questimate! (for iPad and iPad mini) has thousands of fascinating questions for you to create, estimate, and share. Fun and challenging for the whole family.
Door 24
Link to App Store: Door 24 (iPad only)
Price: Free
Players think flexibly about addition, subtraction, and multiplication as they fix Victor the robot's circuits and solve the mystery behind Door 24. Similar to the game "24."
Help your students achieve computational fluency – an integral part of success in mathematics! Aligned to the Common Core, Door 24 provides targeted practice in the use of basic facts, number sense, and algebraic thinking. Students can work through 6 different levels and multiple problem sets.
Price: Free
Players think flexibly about addition, subtraction, and multiplication as they fix Victor the robot's circuits and solve the mystery behind Door 24. Similar to the game "24."
Help your students achieve computational fluency – an integral part of success in mathematics! Aligned to the Common Core, Door 24 provides targeted practice in the use of basic facts, number sense, and algebraic thinking. Students can work through 6 different levels and multiple problem sets.
Pick-a-Path
Link to App Store: Pick-a-Path
Price: Free
Another great game for promoting flexible thinking! To help Okta reach the target (maximum, minimum, or a specific value), choose a path from the top of the maze to the bottom. There are multiple solutions, and players earn extra points for hitting close to the target.
Seven levels with seven puzzles will test your skills with powers of ten, negative numbers, fractions, decimals, and more. How many starfish can you earn?
Price: Free
Another great game for promoting flexible thinking! To help Okta reach the target (maximum, minimum, or a specific value), choose a path from the top of the maze to the bottom. There are multiple solutions, and players earn extra points for hitting close to the target.
Seven levels with seven puzzles will test your skills with powers of ten, negative numbers, fractions, decimals, and more. How many starfish can you earn?
Mathtopia+
Link to App Store: Mathtopia by Omega Labs
Price: Free for basic levels; $0.99 each for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, etc. $3.99 for the full version.
This game helps practice math facts in a (watch out!) highly addictive format, similar to the game Bejeweled.
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 for basic levels; $0.99 each for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, etc. $3.99 for the full version.
This game helps practice math facts in a (watch out!) highly addictive format, similar to the game Bejeweled.
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.
MathTappers: Number Line
Link to App Store: 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: Multiples
Link to App Store: Multiples by HeavyLifters Network Ltd.
Price: Free
While flashcards have some utility in helping people memorize, they are best used after we have mastered a topic and need to build fluency – they are not magic and won’t support the development of understanding on their own. MathTappers: Multiples is a simple game designed first to help learners to make sense of multiplication and division with whole numbers, and then to support them in developing fluency while maintaining accuracy.
Price: Free
While flashcards have some utility in helping people memorize, they are best used after we have mastered a topic and need to build fluency – they are not magic and won’t support the development of understanding on their own. MathTappers: Multiples is a simple game designed first to help learners to make sense of multiplication and division with whole numbers, and then to support them in developing fluency while maintaining accuracy.