Count Magic is a simple app designed to help your preschooler or kindergartener practice their counting skills. The app shows different scenes and each one has a floating basket in the middle of the screen. There’s a number on the basket and objects falling from the “sky”. For example: there’s a snowman with a basket [...]

The folks over at www.anusen.com have been very busy coming up with Math apps! Think Big is yet another title that they’ve developed. This app displays a screen full of numbers. Your child’s job is to tap on the biggest or smallest of the numbers on the screen. Sounds easy enough but if they wait [...]

I like the Word Magic app. On the screen you’ll see a picture, underneath is it’s name but with a missing letter. There will be four letter buttons on the screen. Your child needs to tap the correct letter to fill in the blank.  Simple enough but you can tweak the app to better suit [...]

Math Series wasn’t my favorite Math app from www.anusen.com. The app shows you a series of numbers with one number missing. Underneath will be four numbers and your child should tap the one that goes in the missing blank. If you tap the information button you can customize the number series that you see. You [...]

Another Math app from www.anusen.com – Math Magic. This is a flashcard app that allows your child to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It’s very straightforward. Answer a question and then move on to the next. The number of correct and incorrect answers are tracked at the top of the screen. You’ll also see [...]

Match ‘em Up Math asks your child to look at a math problem and then draw a line to the correct answer on the other side of the screen. If they get the answer right the line will stay in place. If they choose the wrong answer the iPhone will vibrate and the line disappears. [...]

Pocket Phonics is chock full of phonics fun and I love it. There are multiple sections to this app. Your child can listen to letter sounds and tap the letter they belong to. The letters are put in groups of six. (You can read more about why this is under the help section of the [...]

If you’ve got a preschooler in your house then you need to grab iWrite Words. This app will help your child learn to write their letters and numbers. In addition to entertaining all of you, I also teach preschool in my home. I know from personal experience that learning to write can be tedious for [...]

I’ve talked before about my math “limitations”. Limitations as in don’t ask me to add more than single digits in my head because you’ll see smoke come pouring out of my ears. Unfortunately some of my limitations have been passed down to my eldest daughter. Needless to say we are always on the lookout for [...]

Pop Geo USA Geography is the first geography app that I’ve tried out and I liked it. The screen shows a map of the United States. You can play in states, capitals, parks or cities mode. When you try states four markers will show up on the map. Now four state names will begin floating [...]