Kids Learning - My First Numbers Counting Game ... - Free App of the Day

Features:

* A great and exciting introduction to learning numbers 1 to 20. 

* Learn to count fingers, quantities (e.g. 5 apples), and learn to recognize your first numbers (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.)

* Add your own cards - record own voice and add own pictures!

* Includes 100+ gorgeous photographs that are carefully hand picked and selected

* Fun & engaging voice artist keeps kids engaged

* 6 different play modes to show the flashcards anyway you like. Play modes include (image only, word only, flashcard only, word then flashcard, word then image)

* 4 super fun game modes where you either match the picture to the words or the words to the pictures

* Fully customizable font size, font color, spelling (upper case, lower case, etc.)

* Infant mode - includes ability to select extra large font size and red font color (ideal for babies less than 12 months of age)

* Don't want to teach your baby a given word? No problem, just delete the card

* Multi-sensory learning tool - combining audio, voice, and written words

Alphabet Tracing - Free App of the Day

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Fun train, truck and worm animations come to life for children to follow, while showing the proper way to write alphabet letters and numbers. 

Trace with your finger, try the color palette and textures. Use as a doodle pad.

Add-On Feature : Create colorful alphabet tracing worksheets in PDF format
1. letters, numbers and words, add your own words and pictures
2. Parental control screen built in to the buying process to prevent accidental purchase by children. 
3. Email directly from your Application.

iTouchiLearn Numbers for Preschool Kids Free - App of the Day

iTouchiLearn Numbers combines core early learning number skills with interactive fun. 

Each iTouchiLearn Numbers activity features: 

★Colorful animation, interaction and virtual rewards to motivate and focus attention 
★Fun games that teach core curriculum counting skills 
★Activities that reinforce number recognition, counting, addition and subtraction 
★Audio instructions to enhance learning for toddler, preschool and special needs kids 
★Ideal for kindergarten preparation and post kindergarten review 
★Bonus animated sing-a-long number song 

iTouchiLearn Numbers sequentially builds your child’s understanding of early learning number skills and enables them to apply what they learn to real world situations. 

iTouchiLearn Numbers is most effective when you begin by playing with your child and guiding him or her through the activity. As they become more familiar with the structure of the games, children can play alone and build early learning and number competency skills. 

Free and On Sale Apps, 6/21 Edition

Puss in Boots Fun Pack went on sale as well as the Finding Nemo Puzzle Book. Meanwhile Alpha Hippo went free as did the interactive book Striding Bird. 

    

As always, check pricing before purchasing. Happy learning!

iPhone, iTouch and iPad Universal Free and On Sale Apps:

If you would like to purchase or download any of the apps listed, please use the links above. It gives you the same great deals, but allows me to keep finding you specials!

Motion Math Zoom - App of the Day

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
* Free to try 6 levels
* 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

Super-engaging? Check. Supported by research? Indeed: the game teaches place value, a fundamental concept that will allow learners to develop flexible mental computation, numerical estimation, and quantitative judgment. Recent research suggests that understanding the number line has a profound impact on a children's future math ability. 

"My child absolutely loves this learning app...I would much rather load my iPad with these types of games than the next bubble popping game or Angry Birds." - Rob Rosen, parent

Play with numbers – play with Motion Math Zoom! Recommended Ages: 4-7, 8-10, 11-12

iPad-Only Free & On Sale Apps, 6/19 Edition

There are four iPad-only apps that went on sale today, and they are all winners. As always, check the pricing before purchasing. Happy learning!

If you would like to purchase or download any of the iPad apps listed, please use the links below. You get the same great deals, but it allows me to keep finding you great specials!

iPad ONLY Free and On Sale Apps:

School Writing – Learn to write the ABC, numbers, words and more. - demografix pty ltd

iLuv Drawing Dinosaurs HD - Learn how to draw dinosaurs step by step - MyVijan LLC

Spirit of Math Drills - Spirit of Math Schools Inc.

Pirate Ph.D. Full Edition - Bear-Eco Technologies, LLC

Motion Math: Hungry Fish

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 ages 4 and up (there's even advanced levels to challenge grownups!) 

How it Works: 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. 


From the award-winning creators of Motion Math and Motion Math Zoom comes an intuitive way to visualize addition: as the bringing together of two objects. Motion Math is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families. 
The app is free to try, with In-App purchase for an addition level and two subtraction and negative levels. (Plus purchase anything and you'll get bonus fish colors and fins.)

Phone for Kids - Free App of the Day

Phone for Kids – All in one activity center for children HD


This app is one of the top education app in the US, UK and most countries around the world. It was selected "New & Noteworthy" by Apple.


With 24 educational games and activities included, this app transforms your iPhone/iPad to a complete Child Safe Phone environment. Here they will find touch sensitive menus with no less than 24 unique educational games and activity design to interact, entertain and teach. Phone for kids includes easy to digest educational materials about: Colors, Numbers, Letters, Shapes, Directions, Days of the week, Animals, Drawings and much more. The perfect way to use your iPhone/iPad/iPod-Touch as a complete learning and playing experience for your babies, toddlers and children of various ages.


Note: The first screen is completely free including all 6 games and activities. Full version including amazing 18 more games and activities is available in a single in-app purchase inside the application.

Lobster Diver - Free App of the Day

Throw on your diving helmet, and head into the depths of the sea! Dive off the coast of Maine for lobster traps - you might even snatch the elusive blue lobster. But watch out for that pesky electric eel!

* Ideal for middle school and upper elementary students, grades 3-8.

* Addresses number and operations standards established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), including:

=> Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, and number systems.
=> Understand and represent commonly used fractions.
=> Understand fractions as part of unit wholes and as locations on numaber lines.
=> Compare and order fractions, and find their approximate locations on the number line.

* Developed as part of the "Math Snacks" initiative and Maine Cooperative Extension. Other free animations, activities, and games are available through the Math Snacks web site at http://mathsnacks.org.

* Developed by mathematics educators, researchers, and game developers at the Learning Games Lab at New Mexico State University. Games developed by the Learning Games Lab undergo a rigorous instructional design process, extensive user testing, and input from learners, teachers, and researchers. For more information about the NMSU Learning Games Lab, visit http://learninggameslab.org.

Pearl Diver was developed in part under a cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Education.


iPhone: Lobster Diver - Learning Games Lab, NM State University
iPad: Lobster Diver HD - Learning Games Lab, NM State University

Sam Phibian - Free App of the Day

Sam Phibian makes counting fun. 

Sam Phibian can only make it through the day by counting the bugs he eats. Eating too many bugs--or eating the silly things in his swamp that aren't bugs at all--will cause Sam to grow too big for his lily pad! 

Sam Phibian combines attractive graphics, fun game play, and just the right amount of absurdity to create an interactive experience that makes counting practice engaging for young (and old!) learners.

Freaky Friday - Apps On Sale and FREE, starting 5/25

Freaky Friday has started and, oh my goodness, an avalanche of apps have gone on sale or turned free.

Motion Math: Hungry Fish

**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 ages 4 and up (there's even advanced levels to challenge 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. 

The app is free to try, with In-App purchase for an addition level and two subtraction and negative levels. (Plus purchase anything and you'll get bonus fish colors and fins.)

"Our students were enthralled by this simple, yet brilliant game – polishing up on their number skills with smiles on their faces!" - Teachers with Apps

From the award-winning creators of Motion Math and Motion Math Zoom comes an intuitive way to visualize addition: as the bringing together of two objects. Most math worksheets and math games ask "3 + 4 = ?" Hungry Fish instead challenges players to find, for example, the many different ways to create a sum of 7.

Play 123

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.

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