See what’s APPening in
math and science
What’s
APPening
Getting students interested in math and science may be a
challenge—and it’s never been more important. Apps are an
innovative way to teach and reinforce retention in science and
math. Plus, apps can help take learning to a whole new level and
they speak to the way students are studying, playing, and learning
in a more engaging way.
To get you started, we’ve curated a list of 63 math and science
apps that we hope you’ll find helpful. Get your students learning
and enjoying math and science—and building their foundation for
the future.
Download the interactive, digital version at:
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App availability and prices are subject to change.
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Featured
Math
Mega Subtraction 1 - 100 FREE
Algebra 1: Linearity, Slope &
Direct Variation
Microsoft Mathematics 4.0
Algebra Course Assistant
Appolino Number and Amount
– single
Motion Math: Fractions!
Calculus Course Assistant
Multivariable Calculus Course
Assistant
Carmen Sandiego
Adventures in Math
Motion Math: Hungry Fish
Pre-Algebra Course Assistant
CK-12
Precalculus Course Assistant
Core Score
ScootPad
Dragonbox Algebra 5+
Statistics Course Assistant
Electric Company: Banana Blast
off!
WolframAlpha
FluidMath Online
Science
Geogebra
Geometry Circumference
and Arc Length
Linear Algebra Course Assistant
Math Flashcards!
AC Biology
AC Life Science
AC Biology: Mendel’s
Experiment
Math Grade 3
AC Biology: Structure and
Function of the Cell Membrane
Math Worksheet Generator
Anatomy Atlas – Junior
Mega Addition 1 - 100 FREE
Biology & Body Anatomy
Mega Division 1 - 100
Biology: Introduction to
Photosynthesis
Mega Multiplication 1 - 100
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Microsoft Mathematics Add-in
for Word and OneNote
Chemistry Add-in for Word
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Chemistry, Organic Chemistry,
Biochemistry
Corinth Classroom B
Corinth Micro Engines
Earth 3D
Tools for Math
and Science
ChronoZoom for Windows
Office Mix
Essential Anatomy 3
OneNote Class Notebook
Creator
Heart Decide
Windows Movie Maker
How Stuff Works
Human Anatomy Atlas
Kodu
Mars Rover: Curiosity
My Incredible Body
NASA Be A Martian
NOVA Elements
Physics: Electric Current &
Resistance
Physics: Series and Parallel
Circuits
Project Tuva
Star Chart
SkyMap
TouchDevelop
Weird but True by National
Geographic Kids
Worldwide Telescope
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APPLICATION
DESCRIPTION
CATEGORY
AGE/GRADE
Pre-K K-5
PRICE
6-8 9-12
AC Biology
From genetics to ecology, microorganisms to biological
molecules, and more, this app lets students explore a variety
of scientific concepts within virtual environments.
Science
FREE
AC Biology: Mendel’s
Experiment
Students can investigate the results of cross-pollinating
pea plants as they replicate Gregor Mendel’s experiments,
and learn how a pair of alleles can control the expression of
traits.
Science
$1.99
Using a cell model, learn about cell transport methods
and how they are grouped into two categories: those that
require energy expenditure by a cell and those that do not.
Science
FREE
Students can work in virtual laboratories to investigate
photosynthesis or study people’s genetic characteristics,
perform tests to understand how mold grows or create
suitable habitats for pandas and sea turtles.
Science
FREE
Algebra 1: Linearity,
Slope, & Direct Variation
Helps students begin their experience with Linearity, Slope,
and Direction Variation through highly interactive visual
explanations, game-like simulations, and exercises.
Math
$2.99
Algebra Course
Assistant
Helps students evaluate any numeric expression, solve
equations and simplify fractions, convert units of length,
area, volume, and weight, expand any polynomial, and
much more.
Math
$1.99
Anatomy Atlas – Junior
Helps students explore the human anatomy, identify organs,
and learn where these organs are located and what they do.
Science
FREE
Appolino Number
and Amount – single
This action-oriented app helps younger students enjoy
learning to arrange, build, and complete numbers through
hands-on interaction.
Math
$4.99
Biology & Human Body
Anatomy
This app provides a quick summary of essential concepts in
Biology and Human Body Anatomy via easy to grasp snacksized chapters and flashcards.
Science
FREE
Biology: Introduction to
Photosynthesis
Students can use this app to investigate different scientific
experiments, discover what makes plants grow, explore the
impact of chemicals on photosynthesis and much more.
Science
$2.99
Calculus Course
Assistant
Math
$2.99
Wolfram Group LLC
This app covers how to solve specific calculus problems
and key topics applicable to Calculus, AP Calculus AB, AP
Calculus BC, Calculus I and Calculus II.
Carmen Sandiego
Adventures in Math: The
Great Gateway Grab
The student become ACME’s best agent and must find clues
using math to outsmart the villains. Aligned to Grades 4 and
5 Math Common Core Standards.
Math
FREE
Adaptive Curriculum
Adaptive Curriculum
AC Biology: Structure
and Function of the Cell
Membrane
Adaptive Curriculum
AC Life Science
Adaptive Curriculum
Adaptive Curriculum
Wolfram Group LLC
Focus Medica
Lehrmittelverlag St. Gallen
WAGmob
Adaptive Curriculum
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
*PRICE reflects the price to download the application from the Windows Store.
Additional subscription or other fees may be required to make use of the service.
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APPLICATION
DESCRIPTION
CATEGORY
AGE/GRADE
Pre-K K-5
PRICE
6-8 9-12
Chemistry Add-in for
Word
Gives students and teachers an easier way to insert, modify,
and present chemical symbols and data sources within the
familiar Microsoft Word environment.
Science
FREE
Chemistry, Organic
Chemistry, Biochemistry
Students can get a quick summary of essential concepts
in Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry by
following snack-sized chapters.
Science
FREE
ChronoZoom for
Windows
A powerful tool for teachers and students to help put
historical events in perspective from the Big Bang to the
time of dinosaurs, to the present.
Tools for Math
and Science
FREE
CK-12
Students can practice and learn 5000+ Math and Science
concepts ranging from Arithmetic to Zoology in over 15
different modalities so they can learn in their preferred style.
Math, Science
FREE
Core Score provides students with practice math questions
created for Math Common Core Standards, and the
instructor is able to monitor student performance and
usage.
Math
FREE
Corinth Classroom B
This presentation app integrates with Microsoft Office to
help teachers and students bring presentations to life with
immersive, interactive, 3D content.
Science
FREE
Corinth Micro Engines
This 3D interactive app offers a wide variety of facts about
engines, in a visually outstanding, easy-to-understand
experience.
Science
FREE
Dragonbox Algebra 5+
By turning the rules of math into the rules of a game, this
app helps give young learners the opportunity to get
familiar with the basics of equation solving.
Math
$5.99
Earth 3D
An interactive 3D globe app with over 800 photos features
wonders of the world, political and geographic maps, and
fascinating facts about our planet.
Science
$2.99
Electric Company:
Banana Blast Off!
A multi-player collaborative game app that brings kids
together to solve a galactic problem that puts math and
adventure at the center of the experience.
Math
$1.99
Navigate 3D imaging of the human body with 10 complete
systems and 4,000 highly detailed and accurate anatomical
models in a valuable app that is used by medical
professionals as well as educators and students.
Science
FluidMath Online enables teachers and students to create,
solve, graph, and animate math and physics problems
in their own handwriting and is applicable to pre-algebra
through calculus courses.
Math
Microsoft
WAGmob
HikingHomeschoolers
CK-12 Foundation
Core Score
Kaplan Educational Centers, Inc
Corinth s.r.o.
Corinth s.r.o
WeWantToKnow AS
3Planesoft
Sesame Workshop
Essential Anatomy 3
3D4Medical
FluidMath Online
Fluidity Software, Inc.
$24.99
FREE
*PRICE reflects the price to download the application from the Windows Store.
Additional subscription or other fees may be required to make use of the service.
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APPLICATION
DESCRIPTION
CATEGORY
AGE/GRADE
Pre-K K-5
GeoGebra
For all levels of education, this app brings together
Internationales Geogebra Institute geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics, and
calculus in one easy-to-use package.
“IGI”
PRICE
6-8 9-12
Math
FREE
Students can explore geometry, focusing on circumference
and arc length in an engaging and interactive environment.
Math
FREE
Heart Decide
A multi-sensory learning tool for medical students,
healthcare specialists and their patients with interactive 3D
animations to explore and explain anatomy.
Science
FREE
How Stuff Works
This app covers explanations on thousands of topics from
engines to lock-picking to ESP with video and illustrations.
Science
FREE
Human Anatomy Atlas
For medical students or anyone interested in the human
body, this app is a 3D reference and learning atlas with over
4,000 anatomical structures for 12 body systems.
Science
$34.99
Kodu
Kodu is a visual programming language made specifically
for creating games, designed to be accessible for all ages.
Science
FREE
Linear Algebra Course
Assistant
Helps students learn linear algebra concepts and solve
specific algebra equations, find dimensions, calculate a
matrix product, compute linear transformations, and much
more.
Math
$4.99
Mars Rover: Curiosity
Students can explore the NASA Mars Rover Curiosity and
learn about the mission and the tools that it will use to
explore the Martian landscape.
Science
FREE
Flexible flashcard app helps students study and test
themselves on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and
division. The teacher can administer the test and generate
test reports.
Math
FREE
Engaging, real-life math problems for third grade students
help build math fluency in numbers & operations, fractions,
decimals, money, geometry, measurement & data and
graphs & statistics.
Math
$4.99
Math Worksheet
Generator
This app creates multiple math practice problems, from
basic math to algebra, in seconds. Students provide a
sample math problem and the Math Worksheet Generator
does the rest, then gives them an answer sheet.
Math
FREE
Mega Addition
1 - 100 FREE
Kid-friendly interface helps young students learn addition
through games with rewards like stars and collectible
stickers.
Math
FREE
Geometry
Circumference and Arc
Length
Adaptive Curriculum
Orca Health
Discovery Communications, LLC
Visible Body
Microsoft Studios
Wolfram Group LLC
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Math Flashcards!
3Mb Solutions
Math Grade 3
eduPad
Microsoft
DÜSE AppLab
*PRICE reflects the price to download the application from the Windows Store.
Additional subscription or other fees may be required to make use of the service.
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APPLICATION
DESCRIPTION
CATEGORY
AGE/GRADE
Pre-K K-5
PRICE
6-8 9-12
Kid-friendly interface helps young students learn division
through games with rewards like stars and collectible
stickers. Plus teachers and parents can check the student’s
progress.
Math
$2.99
Mega Multiplication
1 - 100
Kid-friendly interface helps young students learn
multiplication through games with rewards like stars and
collectible stickers. Plus teachers and parents can check
the student’s progress.
Math
$2.99
Mega Subtraction
1 - 100 FREE
Math
FREE
DÜSE AppLab
Kid-friendly interface helps young students learn
subtraction through games with rewards like stars and
collectible stickers.
Microsoft Mathematics
4.0
Helps students visualize math concepts to promote better
understanding.
Math
FREE
Microsoft Mathematics
Add-in for Word and
OneNote
Adds new equation, computation, and graphing options
to Word and OneNote on the Mathematics tab so students
and teachers can solve math equations and plot visual
graphs in 2D and 3D.
Math
FREE
Motion Math: Hungry
Fish
Students practice mental addition and subtraction with
this learning game where they “feed” their fish by pinching
two numbers together. Six levels and 18 difficulties for all
learning levels.
Math
$3.99
Helps young students learn four key forms of fractions:
numerator over denominator, percents, decimals, and pie
charts. Beginner, medium and expert modes track to their
level.
Math
$2.99
Multivariable Calculus
Course Assistant
This app helps students solve specific multivariable calculus
problems, providing step-by-step guidance for limits,
derivatives, integrals and much more.
Math
$4.99
My Incredible Body
Students can learn about human anatomy using videos,
interactive tours, and 3D anatomy models that they can
dissect.
Science
­$4.99
NASA Be A Martian
This app lets students experience Mars as if they were there
with mission images and videos of the Mars spacecraft and
up-to-the-minute news of Curiosity’s journey.
Science
FREE
Discover why the periodic table is shaped the way it is, what
gives each element its own unique set of properties, or even
how elements combine to make everyday objects such as a
cup of coffee with this interactive app.
Science
FREE
Office Mix was designed to enable teachers to take a
PowerPoint document, and mix it into an interactive,
playable online lesson that can be viewed on almost any
device, anywhere with an internet connection.
Tools for Math
and Science
FREE
Mega Division 1 - 100
DÜSE AppLab
DÜSE AppLab
Microsoft
Microsoft
Motion Math
Motion Math: Fractions!
Motion Math
Wolfram Group LLC
Visible Body
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NOVA Elements
WGBH Educational Foundation
Office Mix
Microsoft
*PRICE reflects the price to download the application from the Windows Store.
Additional subscription or other fees may be required to make use of the service.
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APPLICATION
DESCRIPTION
CATEGORY
AGE/GRADE
Pre-K K-5
PRICE
6-8 9-12
OneNote Class
Notebook Creator
OneNote Class Notebook Creator lets a teacher quickly set
up a personal workspace for every student, a content library
for handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and
creative activities.
Tools for Math
and Science
FREE
Physics: Electric Current
& Resistance
This app helps students explore the world of physics
relating to electricity like electric current formation and
measurement, conductors, and interesting facts about Ben
Franklin.
Science
$2.99
Physics: Series and
Parallel Circuits
Investigate the difference between series, parallel, and
complex circuits, explore Ohm’s law, calculate the amount
of current moving through a circuit and more with this
interactive app.
Science
$2.99
Pre-Algebra Course
Assistant
Helps solve students’ specific pre-algebra problems,
including finding divisors and prime factorizations of
a number, calculating the GCD and LCM of numbers,
evaluating expressions and more.
Math
$1.99
Precalculus Course
Assistant
This app helps answer students’ specific precalculus
problems, including solving equations, vector arithmetic,
statistics, and more.
Math
$1.99
Project Tuva explores core physics concepts and theories by
presenting videos centering on seven classic physics lectures
by Nobel Laureate Dr. Richard Feynman, recorded in 1964 at
Cornell University.
Science
FREE
An adaptive learning platform for Grades K-5 aligned to
Common Core Standards that allows students to practice,
complete, and review homework online, and lets teachers
track progress and proficiency.
Math
FREE
A planetarium app allowing you to point a Windows device
at the sky and see what stars, constellations, planets, or
deep space objects are out there in real time.
Science
$1.49
Students can explore the entire universe and deep sky from
their desktops or engage in real-time astronomy with their
Windows device pointed at the sky to identify what they are
seeing.
Math
FREE
Statistics Course
Assistant
Covers key topics applicable to statistics and introduction
to statistics like charting sets of data, finding the mean,
median, mode etc. of datasets, and calculating and
computing probabilities.
Math
$1.99
TouchDevelop
A new approach to teaching programming using a touchbased code editor. Anyone can write programs with this free
and easy to use Windows Phone application.
Science
FREE
Kid-friendly wacky facts and trivia for students and teachers
alike based on the highly popular department in National
Geographic Kids magazine.
Science
FREE
Microsoft
Adaptive Curriculum
Adaptive Curriculum
Wolfram Group LLC
Wolfram Group LLC
Project Tuva
Microsoft
ScootPad
ScootPad Corporation
SkyMap
Deneb Soft
Star Chart
Escape Velocity Limited
Wolfram Group LLC
Microsoft
Weird but True by
National Geographic
Kids
National Geographic Society
*PRICE reflects the price to download the application from the Windows Store.
Additional subscription or other fees may be required to make use of the service.
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APPLICATION
DESCRIPTION
CATEGORY
AGE/GRADE
Pre-K K-5
Windows Movie Maker
Microsoft
WolframAlpha
Wolfram Group LLC
Worldwide Telescope
Microsoft
PRICE
6-8 9-12
In just minutes, you can turn photos and video clips on any
subject into interesting movies with special effects, sounds,
and captions. Then share them with your class, on the Web,
or DVDs.
Tools for Math
and Science
FREE
This app uses a vast collection of algorithms and data to
compute fast answers and generate reports for students
in topics such as math, statistics, physics, chemistry, earth
science, and much more.
Math
$2.99
Engage students of all ages in astronomy, physics, general
science, and more with detailed 3D tours of the night sky
right from your classroom.
Science
FREE
*PRICE reflects the price to download the application from the Windows Store.
Additional subscription or other fees may be required to make use of the service.
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math and science
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