Snakes and Ladders is known to me as “Chutes and Ladders”, a game where players move on a game board, climbing up ladders or sliding down chutes. In this version the chutes are replaced with snakes that will be slid down. This app version of Snakes and Ladders supports from one to four players. One [...]

Today I’m taking a look at two apps from Knowledge Adventure, the company behind the brands Jump Start and Math Blaster. -MathBlaster Space Zapper – In Space Zapper players must help protect the space station by blasting away asteroids. To do this they’ll solve math problems and then shoot down the asteroids showing the correct [...]

Voxel is a free universal app that is “like Legos in space” according to the App Store. With a few taps on the screen you can create a 3D model that will rotate and spin on your screen. A grid can be turned on for guidance or blocks can be placed anywhere on the screen. [...]

Fancy a lesson in history and science while you play a fast paced finger tapping game? Check out NewtonApples. As in Sir Isaac Newton, he who discovered the laws of motion and gravity and has a history intertwined with the apple tree. In NewtonApples Sir Newton sits underneath the apple tree, thinking scientific thoughts while [...]

If you have an Elementary or Middle Schooler then I hope you have one of Dan Russell-Pinson’s apps on an iDevice. He’s the developer behind Stack the States, Rocket Math and the brand new app Stack the Countries.

I’m probably one of the least musical people you’ll ever meet but mScribble had me feeling like a semi-accomplished composer. This is an app that lets you improvise your own musical composition, just by using your finger on the touch screen. You begin by selecting background accompaniment. Where you tap, or scribble, determines what your [...]

Geo Bees is a geography game where you are given a question and then shown several bees who are holding different answers. Hence the name of the app, GeoBees. Your job is to answer the question by tapping on the bee with the correct answer. The app will count down the time and keep track [...]