Clover TechFest 2014
Math Tool Kit: Common Core State Standards Apps
Jeremy Eller
Common Core Standards
A great reference for students, parents, and teachers to easily read and understand the core standards. Quickly
find standards by subject, grade, and subject category (domain/cluster). This app includes Math standards K-12
and Language Arts standards K-12. Math standards include both traditional and integrated pathways (as
outlined in Appendix A of the common core) and synthesizes Language Arts standards with the Corresponding
College and Career Readiness Standards.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/common-core-standards/id439424555?mt=8
Best Sand Timer
Digital sand timer with artistic design. Time flows and does it stylishly.
This digitized hourglass can be used to time anything for up to 60 minutes. It's like having a nice looking visual
indicator of how much time is left on your task.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/best-sand-timer/id501940934?mt=8
MyScript Calculator
With MyScript Calculator, perform mathematical operations naturally using your handwriting.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myscript-calculator/id578979413?mt=8
Sushi Monster
Meet Sushi Monster! Scholastic’s new game to practice, reinforce, and extend math fact fluency is completely
engaging and appropriately challenging.
Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target
sum or product. Earn points with each correct answer… but watch out for distractions! To be successful, plan
ahead and strategically select numbers from the sushi counter.
Meets Common Core State Standards
Extend fact knowledge to support strategic reasoning and computational flexibility in addition and
multiplication.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sushi-monster/id512651258?mt=8
Math vs. Zombies
Save Yourself from a Zombie Attack using Math as Your Weapon! The world is overrun with zombies. You
are a part of a squad of highly trained scientists who can save us. Using your math skills and special powers you
can treat infected zombies to contain the threat.
Zombies are attacking your house and only you can stop them... with your math-powered super powers!
Four Awesome Worlds with Twenty Eight exciting levels let you sharpen your addition, subtraction,
multiplication and division skills along with having loads of fun at the same time!
The Math vs Zombies game contains visually rich environments and extremely fun and addictive game play to
keep players engaged for a long time!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/math-vs-zombies-math-games/id470896560?mt=8
Oh No Fractions!
Practice and explore fractions with this elegant and simple visual app.
Swipe left or right to answer if the fraction on the left is LESS, GREATER or EQUAL than the one on the right.
Peek at the visual solution before committing your answer or wait until later to prove it.
Tap above each fraction to see if they can be reduced/simplified.
Check the statistics of your practice runs.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oh-no-fractions!-curious-hat/id593418681?mt=8
Long Division Touch
Learn the mechanics of long division with a touch interface. Drag digits down, slide the decimal into the correct
position, and tap to identify repeating decimals.
Say you have 8)256. Drag 8 into ‘25’ and find the correct multiple. Then drag the 6 down and finish the
problem! Learning long division can be enjoyable when you’re not slowed down by pencil/paper or lost
without instant feedback.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/long-division-touch/id574226151?mt=8
Interactive Telling Time Lite
This app was made for you by artists and educators, with the help from school teachers and mother’s groups to
bring you the best app in learning to tell the time for young beginners. We understand the many challenges
faced by parents when explaining concepts to young children and that is why Interactive Telling Time balances
the need for learning with fun and interactive games. Interactive Telling Time is great for kids from ages 3 to
12 and comes in 5 difficulty levels so that it helps kids master telling time progressively.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/interactive-telling-time-lite/id482452233?mt=8
ScreenChomp
Share a great idea... Explain a tricky concept... Help kids with their homework...
ScreenChomp for iPad helps you do it all. A simple doodling board, markers, and one-click sharing tools make
spreading your ideas and know-how easy and fun!
Just - Record It. Sketch It. Share It. - to create a sharable, replay-able video that tells your story clearly.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/screenchomp/id442415881?mt=8
Educreations Interactive Whiteboard
Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as
touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your
photos... Diagram a sports play...
With voice recording, realistic digital ink, photos and text, and simple sharing through email, Facebook or
Twitter, now you can broadcast your ideas from anywhere.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/educreations-interactive-whiteboard/id478617061?mt=8
Math Term Glossary
MathTerms is an illustrated glossary of mathematics terms in English and Spanish. The app includes almost
1,000 entries for middle- and high-school mathematical concepts. Millions of students have had access to this
glossary, and its colorful, annotated illustrations, for over the past five years.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mathterms/id430508413?mt=8
Whiteboard Lite
Collaborate with friends and family with Whiteboard, the easy-to-use collaborative drawing app! Two users
can create pictures together over local Wi-Fi or over the Internet. Create unique collaborative art.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whiteboard-lite-collaborative/id301962306?mt=8
Khan Academy
Khan Academy allows you to learn almost anything for free. Our iOS app is the best way to view Khan
Academy’s complete library of over 4,200 videos.
We cover a massive number of topics, including K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and
physics, and even the humanities with playlists on finance and history.
Spend an afternoon brushing up on statistics. Discover how the Krebs cycle works. Learn about the
fundamentals of computer science. Prepare for the upcoming SAT. Or, if you’re feeling particularly
adventurous, learn how fire stick farming changed the landscape of Australia.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/khan-academy/id469863705?mt=8
LearnZillion
LearnZillion (learnzillion.com) is an online learning platform that helps teachers and parents meet the
educational needs of every student. We provide teachers and parents with high quality video lessons and
teaching materials--produced by top teachers from around the country. Each lesson highlights a Common Core
standard and can be assigned directly to students or used to plan high quality lessons. LearnZillion for students
allows students to complete assignments on their iPhone or iPad. Students can also manage their classes, search
through the entire video library, and review their scores on past assignments.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learnzillion-for-students/id627486931?mt=8
Geometry Pad
Geometry Pad is a dynamic geometry application for iPad.
With the Geometry Pad you can create fundamental geometric shapes, explore and change their properties and
calculate metrics. The shapes are displayed on a scrollable and zoomable workbook with a rectangular
coordinate system.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geometry-pad/id517461177?mt=8
Graphing Gala
Pick the correct coins on the correct coordinates to earn money to design a Gala animation.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/graphing-gala/id642412704
Math Graph
An interactive iPad app for graphing circles, ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas
Are you interested in learning about graphing common geometrical equations? Do you have trouble
remembering the formula for a circle, ellipse, parabola or hyperbola? This iPad app allows you to interact with
these equations in a dynamic intuitive way. Use sliders to dynamically modify the formula's and see the graph
update to reflect your changes. Got it down pat? Try the Quiz Me mode and to answer questions about your
formula by touching the right point on the graph. Need a hint? Switch back to the Show Me mode or bring up
the list of point values.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mathgraph/id494113780?mt=8
Tangram Free
The tangram is a classic dissection puzzle originated in China. It consists of seven flat shapes, called tans. The
objective of the puzzle is to form a specific shape using all seven pieces, which may not overlap.
The game includes 60 puzzles. 60 interesting shapes all can be formed by the seven pieces of Tangram. You
will be amazed by the magic of the Tangram.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tangram-free/id400629406?mt=8
Grid Drawing Lite
With a sheet of paper, a grid and a template, your children will be able to draw 32 drawings on iPad, 16 on the
iPhone in the Lite version, more than 120 (60 on iPhone) in the full version.
Copying a drawing is not as easy as you think, it takes a lot of concentration and attention to the children.
While playing copying the templates, your children will exercise their observation and their logical skills with
the game modes "copy", "move" and "symmetries", with 2 levels of difficulty
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grid-drawing-for-kids-lite/id581373862?mt=8
Protractor 1st
Protractor 1st is a must-have tool in your pocket. More than that, it is not just a protractor, it is a CONVERTER!
1 degree equals to 0.0174 radian! Having to convert between degree and radian or vice versa, you will need a
calculator next to you when using normal protractors. Protractor 1st deletes this annoyance by combining all
angle units measurements in one finger point.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/protractor-1st/id331027151?mt=8
Number Pieces
Number Pieces helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation
skills with multi-digit numbers. Students use the number pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add,
subtract, multiply, and divide.
This virtual version of the manipulative is an open-ended educational tool, ideal for elementary classrooms and
other learning environments that use iPads.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/number-pieces-by-math-learning/id605433778?mt=8
K12 Equivalence Tiles
K12 Equivalence Tiles lets you compare the values of fractions, decimals, and percents up to 1 by using
draggable tiles of varying values.
Fractions, decimals, and percents are used in everyday life—this app is a quick way for students to understand
how they relate simply by dragging and dropping tiles of equivalent value. K12 Equivalence Tiles is not a
calculator; it is a tool for students who have trouble understanding rational number equivalence (for example,
0.5, 1/2, 50% are all equal). This tool also allows students to visually perform simple operations like addition,
subtraction, comparison, and ordering.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/k12-equivalence-tiles/id598262632?mt=8
Reading the Ruler
A kid friendly and easy way to learn how to read the Inches and Metric rulers.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reading-the-ruler/id494493744?mt=8
Geoboard
The Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle
grades. Learners stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about
perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more.
This virtual version of the manipulative is an open-ended educational tool, ideal for elementary classrooms and
other learning environments that use iPod Touches, iPhones, or iPads.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geoboard-by-math-learning/id519896952?mt=8
Thinking Block Apps
Addition and Subtraction: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thinking-blocks-addition/id668450919?mt=8
Multiplication and Division: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thinking-blocks-multiplication/id669725575?mt=8
Fractions: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thinking-blocks-fractions/id670767677?mt=8
Ratios: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/thinking-blocks-ratios/id670448325?mt=8