“American eighth-graders score 66 points below their Japanese counterparts in math, yet almost 40 percent of American children think they’re good in math. That figure for Japan is 4 percent. “This comes from an editorial by Richard Cohen in the Washington Post. He’s mixing together studies and does not explain…
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Analogies for iPad: A Vote for This Flawed App
Analogies for Kids is an educational iPad app that has a premise I love. It is a quiz that lets kids practice both verbal and geometrical analogies. It is extremely low tech but the questions are just great and I think they really help cultivate young minds. My dream is…
Undersea Math
Undersea Math Undersea Math is another math low budget, under the radar educational iPad math app that my kids – particularly my daughter – consistently use. The premise is very simple. You fill in the answer to the math problem on a little pretend wood puzzle and continue to solve…
Third Grade Math iPad App
My son and I are working on Third Grade Math, an iPad math app by 965 Studios. I have a lot of 965 Studios educational iPad apps, three vocabulary word apps that we use all of the time that have a similar look and layout as the Third Grade Math…