Posts Tagged ‘Smarten Up’

Friday Findings

Discover Your Body HD – Discover Your Body HD is a funny and educational application for kids and adults. It allows you to explore the human body and learn about its organs and parts. The body of a boy or a girl will be displayed and you and your little one can explore different body [...]

 

Jixu Math

Jixu Math combines Math practice with a strategic board game. The board game itself has been designed for two players, not one versus the iPad. This way children can play with each other like they would a regular game. The game has five different levels and the way you move the pawns and the strategy [...]

 

Middle School Math 7th Grade

Those of you with middle school aged children (around 11-14ish) have probably noticed the shortage of apps for that age range. They’re really not well represented in the App Store at all. I see plenty of apps for toddlers and preschoolers and a good number for elementary school kiddos but not many for the older [...]

 

Flashcards! – Math fact practice & quizzing anywhere

Flashcards! is an educational app for testing your basic math skills. You can do problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division or a mix of all types. There are two modes – practice and quiz. The practice is untimed and has a button that lets you check your answer. The quiz mode gives you ten seconds [...]

 
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DigitZ & KidgitZ

DigitZ and KidgitZ are fast paced Math based games that can really help your children (and you) polish up their addition skills. I’ll give you an overview of each app. KidgitZ – In this game number tiles are falling down from the top of the screen. Your child must tap on the tiles that will [...]

 

AlphaBubbles Multilingual

AlphaBubbles – AlphaBubbles was created by an American mom who has been living in Moscow since 2005. After watching her children struggle with a new language she and her husband decided to create an app that would help children learn foreign languages. AlphaBubbles has a simple premise – tap bubbles with different letters, numbers, shapes, [...]

 

iDinobook

iDinobook is something else! This app is quite the dinosaur reference and I’m in awe over all the content that’s been included. I’m also in awe over how artfully the content has been handled. There are two versions of the app, one for iPad and another (just released!) for the iPhone. Each app handles the [...]

 

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Epic Math

Elementary School children can practice their Math skills with Epic Math. The game provides practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills. As children solve the problems they earn points and “Epicoins”. Surrounding the math problem on the screen are tiny pegs and as the coins drop down your child can guide them through the [...]

 

Geo Walk & Contest

The Geo Walk -3D World Fact Book is from the same development company behind Star Walk and Solar Walk. Geo Walk has over 500 interesting facts about people, places, animals, plants and the history of our world. It’s presented in a dynamic interface that’s extremely appealing and I found myself sucked in reading about things [...]

 

NewtonApples

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 [...]

 
 
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iOS 5.01 Released: Includes Fix For iOS 5.0 Battery Life Issue

iOS 5 Gets Its First Update Thanks to my husband Zack for getting this post out about the new iOS 5.1 release. I’ve yet to install the update…but I’ll be following his instructions below. Shortly after the iPhone 4S hit the market a bug was discovered that severely impacted battery life on those new devices. [...]

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I review iPhone apps for moms. I have a decent grasp of techy things but the technical guts (for lack of a better word) of how the apps work are beyond me. So my reviews will be practical and purely subjective. Reviews for moms by a real life, actual mom. My kids will vouch for me.