Week 6: Mobile Apps

Week 6—What mobile apps are available for your subject area? List and describe at least 4 apps that could be used on a smartphone, iPod, or iPad in the classroom. 


Middle School Mathematics Apps in the Classroom:

1. Cure for the Common Core: Cure for the Common Core is a collection of blog posts from the last two years of preparing for and implementing the Common Core Standards. This app offers insights and actionable strategies for teachers aligning their curriculum to the new standards.
2. Motion Math: Motion Math follows a star that has fallen from space, and must bound back up, up, up to its home in the stars. This game involves moving fractions to their correct place on the number line to return home. Using this app allows learners to improve their ability to perceive and estimate fractions in multiple forms.
3. Alge-Bingo: This app allows students to develop your algebraic equation solving skills through playing a Bingo game. This game will take you step by step through the process of learning how to solve the most basic equation up through multiple-step equations by way of 13 different levels and it will allow you to choose from a variety of Bingo games from straight-line Bingo through multiple patterns of Bingo all the way up to Black-out Bingo if you choose.
4. Math Quizzer: This app is an interactive and fun way to, not only learn, but also to boost skills in; Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division. It offers an easy to understand chalkboard visual, which keeps track of your "score" as you progress.