Math Apps (selected by Education.com to be both fun and educational)
Manic Math
Price: Free - $1.04
Grade: Fourth Grade
Platform: Apple, Android
Publisher: Bica Games
Educational Value: Wow! Highly educational, with many types of learning benefits offered to young players.
Fun Factor: Wow! Highly engaging; you'll have trouble tearing players away from this addicting app.
Skills: Multiplication, Division, Pre-Algebra, Factoring, Math Facts, Subtraction, Times Tables, Addition
What we like best: Gameplay is simple, but on-par with some of the most popular video games out there
today. Truly an app that makes learning fun.
What you should know: Manic Math's interface isn't quite as intuitive as it could be; it takes a few trial-anderror sessions to figure out how to navigate the app.
Review: The pressure's on! This supercharged math game is a fast-paced drill disguised as a classic arcardestyle game that kids (and even adults!) won't be able to stop playing.
Math Evolve: A Fun Math Game
Price: Free – $1.99
Grade: Second Grade
Platform: Apple, Android
Publisher: Zephyr Games (Apple); InterAction Education (Android)
Educational Value: Wow! Highly educational, with many types of learning benefits offered to young players.
Fun Factor: Wow! Highly engaging; you'll have trouble tearing players away from this addicting app.
Skills: Subtraction, Addition, Division, Multiplication
What we like best: In this app, the game play isn't a separate feature or intermittent reward—the learning is
completely integrated with the fun.
What you should know: Although this app is designed for ages 6 and up, the practice mode is insanely difficult
for young kids—even when the levels are set to beginner.
Review: This addicting space-themed math app is guaranteed to appeal to kids and adults alike. Take off on an
intergalactic mission into outer space, solving puzzles and shooting down alien crafts as you fly.
Rocket Math
Price: Free – $0.99
Grade: Third Grade
Platform: Apple
Publisher: Dan Russell-Pinson
Educational Value: Wow! Highly educational, with many types of learning benefits offered to young players.
Fun Factor: Great gameplay, interactivity and other engaging elements mean little learners will love playing.
Skills: Money, Time, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction, Number Sense
What we like best: An incentivized reward system motivates kids to complete challenges and earn money to
upgrade their rockets.
What you should know: This app flashes text quickly and doesn't supply a voice-over option, which can be
frustrating for slower readers.
Review: Earn money (and learn about money concepts) by solving math problems in this fast-paced
intergalactic app. Kids start by building a rocket to blast off into space and complete math-themed missions.
Park Math HD
Price: $1.99
Grade: Kindergarten
Platform: Apple
Publisher: Duck Duck Moose
Educational Value: Wow! Highly educational, with many types of learning benefits offered to young players.
Fun Factor: Great gameplay, interactivity and other engaging elements mean little learners will love playing.
Skills: Addition, Subtraction, Patterns, Sorting & Categorizing, Comparing, Counting
What we like best: Traditional equations are included right alongside the game, so kids can connect the
game's fun presentation with math concepts.
What you should know: The music may become grating after a while, but fortunately it's a simple one-touch
process to mute it from the main screen.
Review: Variety is the name of the game in this engaging yet educational app. With 7 sections to choose from,
kids learn addition, subtraction, counting and categorizing, all based around a relatable park-themed premise.
Motion Math: Wings
Price: Free - $6.99
Grade: First Grade
Platform: Apple
Publisher: Motion Math
Educational Value: Wow! Highly educational, with many types of learning benefits offered to young players.
Fun Factor: Great gameplay, interactivity and other engaging elements mean little learners will love playing.
Skills: Multiplication, Counting & Numbers, Number Comparison, Dot Charts
What we like best: Great for visual learners, this pre-multiplication app is engaging and teaches the concept
behind the skill with plenty of visual aids.
What you should know: There is no way to jump forward if your child has already mastered some of the skills.
Review: Forget Angry Birds—help your little one soar to the head of her math class with this avian-themed
pre-multiplication app. Instead of targeting green pigs, your little learner will aim her feathered friend at the
answer to a math problem.
Math Doodles
Price: $2.99
Grade: Second Grade
Platform: Apple
Publisher: Carstens Studios Inc.
Educational Value: Wow! Highly educational, with many types of learning benefits offered to young players.
Fun Factor: Great gameplay, interactivity and other engaging elements mean little learners will love playing.
Skills: Addition, Time, Fractions, Money, Subtraction, Angles, Rotation, Number Sense
What we like best: Great graphics and a completely new approach make this app unlike anything you’ve seen
before.
What you should know: The app definitely isn’t based on a traditional format, which might put off second
graders who like to stick to the script.
Review: This is a beautifully illustrated app—but it’s not an art app, or even an illustrated story. Math Doodles
is a brilliantly executed and educational math app.
Math Bingo
Price: $0.99
Grade: First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade
Platform: Apple
Publisher: ABCya.com
Educational Value: Wow! Highly educational, with many types of learning benefits offered to young players.
Fun Factor: Great gameplay, interactivity and other engaging elements mean little learners will love playing.
Skills: Subtraction, Addition, Division, Multiplication
What we like best: The added time challenge element picks up the pace and piles on the fun.
What you should know: Be sure to turn down the volume on your device because there's no other way to
silence the sounds—and the music can be grating.
Review: If it's not broken, don't fix it. It's no secret that using bingo to teach math concepts has been a
longtime teacher trick and a hit with the kids. But this app goes above and beyond to improve on the old
classic, with engaging interactive elements and game play that will have kids coming back for more.
Match-Up Math
Price: $2.99
Grade: Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade
Platform: Apple
Publisher: My Turn Mobile
Educational Value: Wow! Highly educational, with many types of learning benefits offered to young players.
Fun Factor: Great gameplay, interactivity and other engaging elements mean little learners will love playing.
Skills: Multiplication, Division, Decimals, Fractions, Subtraction, Addition
What we like best: Different modes and difficulty levels make the app appeal to several grade levels, and even
adults could use it for a quick math challenge.
What you should know: Math, math and more math—at heart this is a strictly educational app. The problem
solving element to the game takes a backseat.
Review: Match your way to math success with this educationally rich app. As in the classic matching games,
your mathematician clears tiles off the screen by matching problems and answers. For example, she clicks a
2+3 tile followed by a 5 tile to clear both off the screen.
Factor Samurai
Price: $0.99
Grade: Fifth Grade
Platform: Apple
Publisher:Third Rail
Educational Value: Great learning benefits; different types of educational activities mean a brain boost for all
types of learners.
Fun Factor: Great gameplay, interactivity and other engaging elements mean little learners will love playing.
Skills: Multiplication, Prime Numbers, Factors
What we like best: The samurai theme, complete with satisfying slicing sounds after correct answers, is great
way to interject some fun into fraction practice.
What you should know: Gameplay is very fast paced—players can blow up if they aren't quick enough.
Review: Little samurais have been tasked with slicing up factors, but they have to be quick to master this fastpaced math game! Players only get one chance to strike at digits flying by, which encourages budding
mathematicians to keep up with fraction practice.