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Welcome to Apples and Apps. In old school style, we used to bring apples to the teacher. Now bring the teacher to you. As a Mom, I'm Keeping You Up-To-Date on the Latest Educational FREE and On SALE iPhone & iPad Apps. Why educational apps? Just like you, I have kids. And although they love Angry Birds, I'd like to see them learn something as well. And no, I have absolutely NO affiliation with Apple or any of its products… although I am writing this on a MacBook.

Apr 30, 2012

The Electric Company - Feel Electric!


Feel Electric!
** 2012 Parents' Choice Recommended ** 

Are you feeling delighted? Astonished? Anxious? “Feel Electric!” explores all these emotions and more! Part of the Military Families “Finding the Right Word” initiative, this app offers engaging tools that use content and curriculum from The Electric Company to provide opportunities to explore emotional vocabulary and self-expression. Hosted by Electric Company cast members Jessica Ruiz and Danny Rebus, “Feel Electric!” features three fast-paced games, a digital diary to record daily moods, a zany story maker, and more.



Feel Electric! - Sesame Street

Apr 26, 2012

Number Line

Number Line is an educational game app to help students learn about fractions, decimals, and percents by ordering equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents on a number line. The app features multiple levels where the player must drag circles with either a percent, decimal or fraction onto a number line in the correct sequence. A score is earned based on the time it takes to put all the circles in the correct order (faster is better), plus points for each correct placement, minus points for each error.

Number Line - Todd Bowden

Apr 24, 2012

TanZen HD Lite - Relaxing tangram puzzles

Available for iPhone and iPad, find your Zen with this updated version of the classic tangram puzzle game with nearly 50 puzzles for free.


The iPhone version of TanZen has captured the hearts and minds of puzzle players around the world. This app has been enjoyed by nearly 4 million players and has been in the Top 100 Puzzles list for more than three years.


Just choose a puzzle to solve and try to fit all seven game pieces within the shaded puzzle area without overlapping. TanZen will recognize when the puzzle is finished.

TanZen HD Lite - Relaxing tangram puzzles - Little White Bear Studios, LLC

Apr 20, 2012

Play 123


PLAY123
PLAY123 for iPad is a learning application where your kids can play with all shapes, colors and numbers of their imagination, using various functions of the pad. They can throw, draw, roll, stack, turn, and more.

Forms, shades and sounds make kids play with their senses of sight, hearing and touch in such creative ways that help their imagination run freer. Kids can learn about shapes, colors and numbers autonomously as well as enjoying the time with the parents.


PLAY123 - CJ Educations

Apr 19, 2012

Tayo the Little Bus's Garage Game


Tayo the Little Bus's Garage Game
Go play the Garage Game with Tayo the Little Bus! Made for both iPhone and iPad, ‘Tayo the Little Bus's Garage Game’ is an educational entertainment application. Children can virtually visit the parts of the garage in the TV animation ‘Tayo the Little Bus’ including the central garage, repair shop, car wash, charging station, and video education center through participating in various mini games and activities. You can move to specific destinations to enjoy parts of the game if you select the practice mode on the main menu and you can issue a driver’s license and experience the full realistic game if you select the start mode.

 -Main functions and activities-
1. Repair shop : replace parts, fill up the tires
2. Car wash : soap, water, wipe water off from the windows
3. Charging station : charge CNG, charge engine oil
4. Video education center : traffic safety quiz
5. Drawing : color pictures of Tayo, draw pictures
6. Driver’s license : issue a driver’s license, choose a license, collect badges, check for level-up

Play the fun Garage Game with Tayo the cute little bus and enjoy a fun filled adventure!


Tayo the Little Bus's Garage Game - ICONIX ENTERTAINMENT

Apr 18, 2012

Motion Math Zoom


Motion Math Zoom
An animal adventure through the world of numbers! Give your child a chance to play with numbers - they'll have a blast zooming through the number line as they master place value.

Brought to you by the creators of Motion Math, the award-winning educational iPhone and iPad app, featured in the Wall Street Journal, Children’s Technology Review, Wired.com, TechCrunch and many more.

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. 

Features:
* Starts at basic numbers and moves into negatives and decimals
* Helper character - gives hints when you need them 
* High scores, stats, and Game Center integration
* Great graphics and animations
* Fakeouts and for advanced learners, a timed challenge featuring...The Needle


Motion Math Zoom - Motion Math

Apr 17, 2012

Curious George at the Zoo for iPad


Curious George at the Zoo
Developed by one of the world’s largest providers of educational materials for Pre-K–12 learning, Curious George at the Zoo is a fun, engaging and entertaining app that will also support your child’s learning and development along the way. 

Is your child curious about animals? Curious George is! George has been asked to help out at 
the zoo. George needs your child’s help to wake, clean and feed the animals.


In the pop-up menu, your child can explore the zoo and listen to audio narration by the Man in the Yellow Hat. Within the animal enclosure, visit animals, wake them up, learn what food they like to eat and develop hand-eye coordination by dragging, tapping, rubbing and more. There are also videos where kids can watch movie of each animal in its natural habitat. There are also games that work on memory skills, sorting ability and reasoning skills.

Must be connected to WiFi for initial download.

Curious George at the Zoo - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Apr 16, 2012

Toca Kitchen Monsters


Toca Kitchen Monsters
Ever wanted to play with your food? Now you can! In this Monster edition of the super-hit Toca Kitchen you can cook and play with food for two hungry monsters. Pick any ingredient and prepare it in your own way! Slice, boil, fry, cook, microwave or mix? And wait for the response from the hungry monster...


Toca Kitchen Monsters is not a game - it's a toy where you and your kids get to explore cooking. What happens if you mix a carrot and then fry it? What do Monsters like to eat? Why do the Monsters spit some food out if it is over-seasoned? Toca Kitchen supports free play for iPhone and iPad for all ages and is a great way to use your imagination.

Toca Kitchen Monsters - Toca Boca

Apr 15, 2012

Basic Math


This is an application based on the drill-and-practice instructional strategy. Similar to memorization, such a strategy presents the tasks to be completed repetitively to build up the foundation skills for more meaningful learning in the future.


This application provides exercises covering basic mathematical skills like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The exercises are targeted for children under 12 years, and sometimes even adults, with varying degrees of difficulty depending on their age.


Basic Math - Explorer Technologies