iPad/iPhone Apps
Below are some apps that the K/1 teams at Driscoll recommend. Many of them have different levels of challenge to engage students at multiple grade levels. Our favorite feature: many of these apps are free!
Free Games: Hungry Fish, Motion Math Zoom, Mathtopia, Little Monkeys Number Lines, MathTappers Find Sums
Free Games: Hungry Fish, Motion Math Zoom, Mathtopia, Little Monkeys Number Lines, MathTappers Find Sums
Hungry Fish
Link to App Store: Hungry Fish by Motion Math
Price: Free
A great game for practicing addition and subtraction, as well as breaking apart numbers. The higher levels can be very challenging, even for older elementary students.
Feed your fish and play with numbers! Practice mental addition and subtraction with Motion Math: Hungry Fish, a delightful learning game that's fun for children and grownups.
Your fish is hungry for numbers. You can make delicious sums by pinching two numbers together – instant addition! Keep feeding your fish to win a level and unlock new colors and fins.
Price: Free
A great game for practicing addition and subtraction, as well as breaking apart numbers. The higher levels can be very challenging, even for older elementary students.
Feed your fish and play with numbers! Practice mental addition and subtraction with Motion Math: Hungry Fish, a delightful learning game that's fun for children and grownups.
Your fish is hungry for numbers. You can make delicious sums by pinching two numbers together – instant addition! Keep feeding your fish to win a level and unlock new colors and fins.
Hungry Guppy
Link to App Store: Hungry Guppy by Motion Math
Price: $3.99
The companion to Hungry Fish, this game allows children to practice addition and subtraction with pictures and/or numbers to help build number sense.
Your 3- to 7-year-old will learn numbers and basic addition with this delightful game. It's easy to play – simply drag bubbles together to add them, then feed it to your fish.
Price: $3.99
The companion to Hungry Fish, this game allows children to practice addition and subtraction with pictures and/or numbers to help build number sense.
Your 3- to 7-year-old will learn numbers and basic addition with this delightful game. It's easy to play – simply drag bubbles together to add them, then feed it to your fish.
Motion Math Zoom: Number Line
Link to App Store: Motion Math Zoom by Motion Math
Price: Free
This engaging game helps children build an internal number line -- a very helpful idea for later 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
This engaging game helps children build an internal number line -- a very helpful idea for later 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.
Subitize Tree HD (iPad only)
Link to App Store: Subitize Tree HD by Doodle Smith Ink
Price: $0.99
To subitize (pronounced soo-bi-tize) is to instantly recognize a small quantity of objects without counting. Subitizing helps build number sense, promotes fluency, and helps with addition and subtraction. This game allows kids to practice subitizing with different objects (cards, fingers on a hand, dominoes, etc.)
Welcome to The Subitize Tree! This is the newest app from TeacherTipster.com! The object of the game is simple. Owl, frog, snail and many more of the forest animals have gotten trapped inside the Subitize Tree. You must perfect your subitizing skills in order to save our animal friends. Save all ten animals to beat the game and become a master subitizer!
Price: $0.99
To subitize (pronounced soo-bi-tize) is to instantly recognize a small quantity of objects without counting. Subitizing helps build number sense, promotes fluency, and helps with addition and subtraction. This game allows kids to practice subitizing with different objects (cards, fingers on a hand, dominoes, etc.)
Welcome to The Subitize Tree! This is the newest app from TeacherTipster.com! The object of the game is simple. Owl, frog, snail and many more of the forest animals have gotten trapped inside the Subitize Tree. You must perfect your subitizing skills in order to save our animal friends. Save all ten animals to beat the game and become a master subitizer!
Little Monkeys: Friends of Ten
Link to App Store: Friends of Ten by Aleesha Kondys
Price: $0.99
This game uses the popular (and immensely helpful!) Tens Frame math tool (see the image at left) to build number sense.
Little Monkey Apps Friends of Ten is an activity to be used in the early years of schooling to introduce an early understanding of numbers to ten, counting objects to ten, subitising - recognising a collection of objects without counting them, counting on from a higher number, partitioning of objects and the combinations that make ten 8+2, 2+8, 1+9, 3+7 etc. These skills underpin mental addition and subtraction.
Price: $0.99
This game uses the popular (and immensely helpful!) Tens Frame math tool (see the image at left) to build number sense.
Little Monkey Apps Friends of Ten is an activity to be used in the early years of schooling to introduce an early understanding of numbers to ten, counting objects to ten, subitising - recognising a collection of objects without counting them, counting on from a higher number, partitioning of objects and the combinations that make ten 8+2, 2+8, 1+9, 3+7 etc. These skills underpin mental addition and subtraction.
Little Monkeys: Number Lines
Link to App Store: Number LInes by Aleesha Kondys
Price: Free
This app helps students practice counting, comparing numbers, adding and subtracting with the help of some adorable frogs.
Little Monkey Apps Number Lines aims to students to visualise numbers for rote counting and ordering and to see the physical position of a number linking patterns and relationships. Unlike counters, which model counting, a number line also models measurement, which is why the number line begins with zero as you would see on a ruler. Students are also exposed to different vocabulary for addition and subtraction such as step forward or jump back to physically suggest the movement of the frog along the number line.
Price: Free
This app helps students practice counting, comparing numbers, adding and subtracting with the help of some adorable frogs.
Little Monkey Apps Number Lines aims to students to visualise numbers for rote counting and ordering and to see the physical position of a number linking patterns and relationships. Unlike counters, which model counting, a number line also models measurement, which is why the number line begins with zero as you would see on a ruler. Students are also exposed to different vocabulary for addition and subtraction such as step forward or jump back to physically suggest the movement of the frog along the number line.
MathTappers: Find Sums
Link to App Store: Find Sums by HeavyLifters Network Ltd.
Price: Free
This app encourages students to work quickly to add up to different target numbers (e.g. 6, 10, 15, 100...). Students can practice with a visual model (apples in a ten frame, pictured at left) first, and then move onto the more abstract part-part whole model.
MathTappers: Find Sums is a simple game designed to help learners to make sense of addition (and subtraction as a related operation), and then to support them in developing accuracy and improving their speed.
Price: Free
This app encourages students to work quickly to add up to different target numbers (e.g. 6, 10, 15, 100...). Students can practice with a visual model (apples in a ten frame, pictured at left) first, and then move onto the more abstract part-part whole model.
MathTappers: Find Sums is a simple game designed to help learners to make sense of addition (and subtraction as a related operation), and then to support them in developing accuracy and improving their speed.