iPhone Education App to help Kids Learn Math
Ever tried teaching math to kids? Most of the kindergarten teachers will agree with me if I say that teaching maths to kindergarten kids is one of the toughest things in the world. Nothing is more challenging.
No, I have never tried teaching maths in kindergarten. But I did not enjoy learning the cryptic figures called numbers and even more, the cryptic relationship between them called functions (subtractions, division, multiplications and so on) at that age.
And I guess that’s what happens with almost all the kids the first time they see MATHS. Unless someone is a future Steve Wozniak.
But the 5 year old son of my colleague has certainly been hooked to the numbers ever since my he downloaded the FlashMath app from the App Store. He naught it as a sort of last-ditch effort to teach math to his 5 year old kindergarten toddler.
It turned out that this kid, with a pronounced apathy for numbers and their functions has since then got hooked to arithmetic.
My colleague has pointed out certain factors that has got his math hater 5 year old son hooked up to the FlashMath app.
The app:
The FlashMath App, by the developer palaware is a math learning tool for appropriate for kids within the age group of kindergarten to elementary school. The app provides quick little brain exercises to provide an easy way for learning addition and substraction. You can configure this app to for getting easy addition and substraction as well as complicated multiplication and divisions.
The interface of the app is colorful enough to make boring math to be some fun.
Option to set time limit for each question.
The iPhone/iPod touch advantage:
The most intriguing feature of the app for a five year old, as my colleague pointed out is not the app itself, but the iPhone’s touch screen. Touching the numbers on one part of the screen and corresponding results appear at another part of the screen, tapping blocks to see the hidden numbers and answers, my colleague told me, made maths and the equations colorful enough to have completely hooked his son to the appeal of arithmetic.
Senator Barrack Obama will comment, “this is a good application for American kids to make them learn math and science,” seriously.
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Hello,
You mentioned it’s possible to hide the answers…”Touching the numbers on one part of the screen and corresponding results appear at another part of the screen, tapping blocks to see the hidden numbers and answers”
May I know how?
Thanks!
Joanne
I am an instructor at a college and looking for an app to take attendance on an iPhone. Would you have an app (or want to develop one) to help teachers take attendance for their classes? There is nothing like that in Apple’s App store and it would be a big seller to all educators. Very basic, where you enter a classes list of names. Hit on the name and you can select “Present”, “Late”(and stamps the time you hit the button so you can keep track of what time they arrived), or “Absent”. The ability to have several classes would advantageous as well. I think this app could make a lot of money for you as I know eseveral professors, instructors, and teachers with iPhone’s looking for this type of application. Interested??
Richard Stroobant
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