Free and On Sale Apps, 6/26 Edition

Quiet day but some gems. Learning time for iPhone went free. The Audubon Guides - A Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Wildflowers and Trees went on sale. It combines all of their great guides. A true deal. The book "The Wild Swans" went free. And the iPad Explain Everything went on sale. Very cool and popular. As always, check pricing and happy learning!

iPad-Only Free and On Sale Apps:

Explain Everything - MorrisCooke

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!

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. 

Touch Calc - Free App of the Day

A Universal App, Touch Calc is a useful scientific calculator app means that your iPod Touch or iPhone can serve double duties in the classroom. The app offers all the basic calculator functions like addition and subtraction, but also includes a scientific mode, a statistical mode and a bit/integer mode. Colored keys are added to help you distinguish between the different functions, and preferences can be set for each mode. All in all, this is a powerful and useful free app to have.

Playful Minds: Math (5-8 years old)

Playful Minds: Math (5-8 years old) is a fun and appealing educational application that provides your child with a gradual and in-depth understanding of math. Your child will enjoy learning and progressing freely through the math program. 

A GENUINE AND EFFICIENT LEARNING TOOL 
• A complete review of the US and UK math programs for ages 5 to 8. 
• More than 300 exercises covering 5 different categories: Algebra, Geometry, Data Analysis, Measurement and Numbers & Operations. 
• The difficulty of the drills is adaptable to ensure a smooth and steady learning curve. 

YOUR CHILD WILL WANT TO LEARN AND PROGRESS ON HIS OR HER OWN
• All directions and explanations are both displayed on-screen and voiced to guarantee easy comprehension.
• Exercises are designed to never be discouraging as all mistakes are explained. This guarantees targeted lessons for your child. 
• Follow your child’s progress thanks to complete score charts in all categories. 

COME TO THE ISLAND WHERE LEARNING IS FUN!
• Your child will create his or her own personalized avatar that will journey to a tropical island full of animated animal professors.
• Fun and enjoyable rewards will motivate your child to continue along the journey.
• Bonus 3D exercises offer a whole new dimension to lessons for even more fun.

A SAFE & SECURE MULTIPLAYER MODE FOR DEEPER LEARNING 
• Select up to 5 of your child’s friends to play with online and improve social and communication skills.
• Playing with friends or with you allows your child to benefit from a sense of challenge, boosting confidence and encouraging progress.
• Various mini-games cover the 5 categories of the program.

Good at Math

For the iPad only: Good doesn’t like math and is nervous about her big test tomorrow. But OH NO! Good has fallen asleep while studying! Follow our heroine Good as she enters a dream world with wizards, robots and zombies lurking at every turn - only YOU can help her defeat these adversaries through quick thinking and mathematical cunning!

Features:
✓Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills.
✓Draw your answers directly on the screen.
✓Six levels of play that will increasingly challenge you.
✓Never play the same game twice! New math problems appear each time you play.
✓Ability to learn on your own time from anywhere.
✓Ideal for children who want to practice their math skills in or for adults who enjoy a fun brain teaser.

"Good at Math" allows you to choose between practicing addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, or all four skills at once. As Good battles the bad guys using her math moxie, the math questions increase in difficulty. In each level you reach, you will be given less time, challenging players of all ages in a fun and exciting way. Just like Good, you will be able to improve your math savvy each time you play and feel more confident with each new triumph.

Do you need more help with basic math like subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, times tables and percents? GCFLearnFree.org's online math education program is designed to provide quality, innovative online learning opportunities for anyone who wants to improve their math skills. Our basic math tutorials and learning interactives make learning math easier, and allow you to practice basic math skills at your own level and pace.

GCFLearnFree.org® creates and provides quality, innovative online learning opportunities to anyone who wants to improve the technology, literacy and math skills needed to be successful in both work and life. By delivering over 750 different lessons to millions of people in over 200 countries and territories ABSOLUTELY FREE, GCFLearnFree.org is a worldwide leader in online education.

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.

Math Drills Lite

Graphically rich and fun environment allows a single student to learn basic math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Explore solutions to problems using number lines, wooden blocks, facts and hints. Solve nine-times problems using your fingers!

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.