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Math Champ Challenge [iOS App News]

Jul. 31, 2013 – SAN FRANCISCO — Math Champ Challenge is a new app from award winning INKids Education and contains 2500+ questions mapped to Common Core State Standards.

The app – like many others – is designed to help strengthen understanding of mathematical principles. Uniquely though, Math Champ Challenge uses Game Center (Apple’s social gaming platform) to dish out awards, achievements and even merit badges for proficiency in specific curriculum areas – all mapped directly to Core Standards.

During play questions are randomly selected from within each Standard (providing a balanced mix of content from all Domain Standards for each grade). Every game is different, but will always include a suitable mix of content comparable from game to game (and player to player).

At the end of each level, revision is encouraged and players can practice any “Cluster” or questions and then re-take each challenge (each grade contains 5 levels from EASY through to
SUPER NERD / MASTERY). The first level is available for free, and all levels can be unlocked with a single in-app purchase.

“The app is designed to engage with a younger generation of players who are used to competing with Game Center in other casual games” said John McCann, the Director and Product Manager at INKids Education.

“We created Math Champ Challenge as way to make take a standard math quiz more fun and have tried to do something unique in the marketplace by matching the players achievements with standards from the new Common Core State Standards Initiative”.

Math Champ Challenge (which is available for iPhone and iPad) has already had over 5,000 downloads since it’s release in late July and is sure to be a hit with teachers heading back to school at the end of Summer holidays. With Common Core assessments being rolled out in 2014-15 this app will no doubt  provide a fun way for students to study for exams and test their skills against other players.

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Omni Study – Student Planner App [iOS]

Omni Study is an elegant student planner app that helps students manage their classes, assignments, events, and grades. Omni Study will help you prioritize your tasks and get ahead.

With the app you can :

  • Add classes, teachers, and class times
  • Create repeating events (such as lectures or study sessions)
  • Create assignments and customize assignment types and weights on a per-class level
  • Get push notification reminders for classes, events, and assignment due dates
  • Omni Study can intelligently predict the best time to begin an assignment, and send a push notification to remind you
  • View and track individual class grades as well as your overall weighted and unweighted GPA
  • Omni Study will tell you what grade you need on your next assignment to either achieve the next letter grade, or to maintain your current grade
  • Add notes and URLs to events and assignments
  • Sync with all your devices via iCloud
  • Omni Study has a “night mode” that activates after 7 PM and dims the colors and background of the app for easier viewing
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Developer: Nicholas Doherty
Price: Free+
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Finding the Best Apps for Learning

If you are looking for some great educational apps for your kids, I recommend you try AppoLearning.

AppoLearning is a website that pulls together and provides reviews for educational apps for the iPad. I have had the honor of writing for them and the system is very well done.  The folks behind AppoLearning have initially focused on apps for the iPad but the Android version is coming soon ( How do I know? I have already written up a few reviews.)

Well AppoLearning has just come out with its iPad app, which will allow you to search while on the run. You can learn about the app here.  Techcrunch put together a nice piece about it:  AppoLearning For iPad Helps Parents & Teachers Find The Educational Apps Worth Buying.

I have downloaded a copy of the app and it works really well. It pulls data from the website and you can search by age group, subject matter, articles, and author.  Take a look at the video and then head over to app store to get your copy.

The app was not found in the store. 🙁
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Education Travel & Local

Civil War Driving Tour, Alexandria VA [Android]

App Name: Civil War Driving Tour, Alexandria VA [Android]

Cost: Free

Developer: Tour Buddy, LLC

App Market: Download Page

Description:

“Many hamlets and towns have been destroyed during the war. But of all that in some form survive, Alexandria has most suffered,” wrote a New York Herald correspondent in 1863. “It has been in the uninterrupted possession of the Federals for twenty-two months, and has become essentially a military city. Its streets, its docks, its warehouses, its dwellings, and its suburbs have been absorbed to the thousand uses of war.”

Explore Civil War Alexandria and discover how Robert E. Lee’s hometown of Confederate loyalists became a major operations center for Union forces while thousands of African Americans came to the town seeking freedom and security behind Union lines. Alexandria’s unique Civil War heritage gives visitors today the chance to see a Union fort, Confederate memorial, and museums dedicated to African American history. Check out more than two dozen distinctive sites and learn why Alexandria’s position as an occupied city made its Civil War experience unlike any other town in America – and why today Alexandria embraces its diversity as well as its past!

To learn more about Alexandria, visit www.historicalexandria.org .

Enjoy this interactive tour experience with a historic photo of each stop created by the City of Alexandria’s Office of Historic Alexandria. Choose your own route or follow our recommended tour route that leads you through Alexandria’s historic sites, museums, and shopping and dining options. Just tap each stop to hear narrated stories and navigate the content through the stop menu and GPS tour map.

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Education

Math Is Fun Game [iOS]

App Name: Math Is Fun Game [iOS]

Cost: Free

Developer: 4Enjoy

App Market: Download Page

Description:

“Math Is Fun” is a puzzle game for adults and children. The main goal of the game is to fill in empty spaces of the puzzle. This logical game will improve skills and will train brain. The notepad in cells, where the action of the game takes place, introduces the creative game atmosphere for the player. The game has no time limits that`s why the player need to use the skills and abilities instead of the rush.  The game is also available for Android devices.

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Education

Instalator – Multi Translation [Android]

App Name: Instalator – Multi Translation [Android]

Cost: Free

Developer: Jatt Code

App Market: Download Page

Description:

Talking to a new foreign student at school, having visiting colleagues from Korea, buying food at the local Chinese store, or simply traveling somewhere out of town. Knowing a little of another’s language is often the key to breaking barriers, especially when the other party feels you are trying your best.

Instalator (aka Instant-Translator) is a instant translation app that translates phrases to many languages in one click. It is multi-featured in a single screen, including Google voice recognition, and text-to-speech capabilities etc.

 

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First Step – Fun and Educational Game for Pre Schoolers and Kids [iOS]

App Name: First Step – Fun and Educational Game for Pre Schoolers and Kids [iOS]

Cost: Free

Developer: LogTera Inc.

App Market: Download Page

Description:

Educational Game for toddlers and kids aged 0-6 years keeping fun and early learning in mind. It is designed such that even a 2 year old toddler can play it independently, and at the same time it will equally charm older kids too. It has images and sound effects which will keep kids engaged and happy.

Features:
-Teaches about Fruits, Vegetables , Colors & Shapes
-Easy to play & learn
-Helps develop memory and concentration.
-It provides the kids a sense of achievement.
-Helps develop sound and visual recognition skills in younger kids.