Busy Shapes 2

Are you looking for a fun and enjoyable learning experience for children from the age of 4, exercising important developmental skills through engaging gameplay? Busy Shapes 2 is a breathtaking 3D puzzle game designed for kids 4-8!

This app takes Edoki Academy's award winning exploratory playground, Busy Shapes, to new heights. With 100+ 3D levels that teach your children about visual perspectives, coordination, agility and critical thinking it's sure to dazzle their senses! 

A new generation of shape sorters is born!

FEATURES:
- 100 + visually and sensorially stimulating levels
- Unlimited attempts to foster the simple pleasure of solving a puzzle
- Avoid hidden traps:
- Sticky patches
- Glass box
- Barriers
- Discover numerous magical tools to help you along your journey:
- Springs,
- Planks,
- Bombs,
- Moving platforms,
- Secret passageways
- Experience 4 beautiful worlds inspired by nature designed by Parisian studio iP3
- Tangy fruits
- Underwater creatures
- Erupting volcanos
- Celestial delight

Spatial Skills for Success:
Spatial skills predict a young person's achievement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. 
It's the mental feat that architects and engineers perform when they design buildings. 
The capacity that permits a chemist to contemplate the three-dimensional structure of a molecule, or a surgeon to navigate the human body.

A Proven Pedagogical Approach:
Like its predecessor, Busy Shapes 2 is inspired by Swiss clinical psychologist, Jean Piaget's pioneering theory of cognitive development. 
Piaget believed that children in their earliest stage of development learn best by exploring and manipulating the world around them.

What's more, children will be instantly captivated by a peaceful color palette and surreal gaming environment as they move seamlessly through each carefully crafted level.

Linking Cubes

Virtual colored cubes that link together to explore math concepts. Similar to connecting cubes, linking cubes, snap cubes, unit cubes. Includes Common Core correlated teaching ideas.

FEATURES 
▪ Easily add, snap, copy, and rearrange cubes 
▪ Assorted colors
▪ Text fields and pens for annotations and labels 
▪ Built-in graph, number line, and place value backgrounds
▪ Tens Frames
▪ Customizable Arrays
▪ Common Core alignment 

 

MATH TOPICS 
1. Counting 
2. Representing numbers
3. Patterns 
4. Place value 
5. Adding and subtracting 
6. Multiplying and dividing 
7. Graphing 
8. Parts of ten

Base Ten Blocks Manipulative

Virtual base 10 blocks to model place value, addition, subtraction, regrouping, and more.

FEATURES
1. Ones (units), tens (rods), hundreds (flats), and cubes (thousands) 
2. Decimals support
3. Combine and break apart (with animation)
4. Place value mat
5. Factor track
6. Addition mat
7. Subtraction mat
8. Differentiated place value colors
9. Regrouping
10. Snap alignment
11. Show or hide values

MATH TOPICS
1. Number sense 
2. Place value
3. Counting
4. Decimals
5. Addition with regrouping
6. Subtraction with regrouping

Tags: Base 10 Blocks, Manipulatives, Place Value, Decimals, Addition, Subtraction, Counting, Number Sense, Regrouping

Fractions - by Brainingcamp

Everything you need for teaching and learning: (1) Narrated lesson (2) Practice questions (3) Virtual manipulative (4) Challenging game

TOPICS COVERED
1. Fractions Introduction
2. Equivalent Fractions
3. Common Denominator
4. Comparing and Ordering Fractions
5. Adding and Subtracting Fractions
6. Multiplying Fractions
7. Dividing Fractions

FEATURES 
▪ Lesson with visual models and audio narration to make abstract concepts concrete
▪ Questions to practice what was learned
▪ Virtual manipulative for hands-on discovery learning
▪ Challenge game to interactively apply understanding
▪ Alignment with state and Common Core standards 
▪ Suitable for ages 9-14

Tags: Fractions, Number Comparison, Manipulatives

Virtual Manipulatives!

(from: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/virtual-manipulatives) VIRTUAL MANIPULATIVES is a solid math app with a focused purpose: to help learners visually understand the relationships among percentages, fractions, and decimals. Kids who use fraction bars/tiles at school will probably know what to do with the app and may find it to be a great homework helper. Otherwise, you'll need to explain the how and why for using this tool before kids will get much out of it. This is where the app falls short: It doesn't offer any guidance to parents on how to use the app with their kids.
But if you're able to meet that challenge, Virtual Manipulatives can make a tough concept a bit more easy to understand for kids with a variety of learning styles, with visual representations that kids can use their hands to manipulate. It's colorful, well designed, and free, making it a good addition to your math apps collection.