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In Jungle Math Bingo children solve math problems and click on the answer on their bingo card in order to try to get five in a row for a BINGO!
Bingo is generally played with at least a fairly large group of people, but the excitement of getting a bingo (and being able to yell it) certainly seems to carry over to the one-player version for my kids. “I’ve got a wait...BINGO!”
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Math Crash combines simple touch-to-move hand-eye coordination with multiple-choice multiplication and division questions in a very unique way.
The app presents a problem and the student must avoid the objects with the wrong answers and crash into the correct one. Math Crash includes the times and division tables from 2-12 which can be individually selected if, for example, the child needs to work on a specific number, or set to random. There is no setting to work on multiplication or division in combination.
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Learn Reading or "Learn To Read with Buba" (which I can only assume was meant to be Bubba) features two sections: learn and game.
In the learn section there are two options, words and letters. In words, the app simply presents a picture with a word that the child can click on to hear the word pronounced. That’s it...and, for some reason, the word isn't pronounced when it is clicked.
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PianoBall presents children with a small musical keyboard and four "pianoballs."
An instrument ball changes the keyboard sounds from piano to xylophone to drums to a saxophone. A rainbow ball turns the keyboard multi-colored. A color ball changes the keyboard to a specific color (and a computer-sounding voice speaks the name of the color if pressed) and a tune ball selects one of five songs for children to play by pressing stars in the order they appear on the keys.
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The Good: There are 15 different games in JumpStart Preschool Magic of Leaning, covering a wide range of toddler/preschool topics, for only $1.99. The games include alphabet matching, connect-the-number-dots, puzzles and a follow-directions-to-find-the-present game that is excellent and unique.
Not So Good: The app seems to lack an overall sense of brightness and fun. (The screenshots are from my iPad 2 with the brightness all the way up.) Some of the 15 games are really the same with a variation of the theme. The reward system is a star per completed activity, to which Lily replied "I want stickers."
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Roxie's Doors uses amazingly detailed artwork from Roxie Munro's award-winning book "Doors" to create an excellent combination lift-the-flap, find-the-objects ebook.
On the left side of each page is a short description of a few of the things behind the door on the right and, when the door is opened, the child can find each object by clicking on it, with each item turning from red to green in the text on as it is found.
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