Good Free Apps of the Week - AppTutor for Grades K-5

You know StudyPad makers of Splash Math and eduPad makers of iTooch Math. Now welcome Padstar to the SAFK family. Today we have all seven of their math apps free for teacher appreciation week. That's one app free for each day of the week hence our first GFAOTW. These are regularly $3.99 each so save $28 and your sanity since these apps teach as well as reinforce core math skills for elementary school students.

If you homeschool your kids, grab a Venti Latte, sit back and relax. These apps are jam packed with content and will do your job for you. Check out the topics covered by grade:

• K - counting up, addition, using objects, ways to make numbers, word problems
• 1st - addition, strategies, hundred chart, regrouping, word problems
• 2ndA - addition strategies, picture addition, word problems, input/output table, long addition
• 2ndM - terms & symbols, skip counting, repeated addition, arrays, properties & pictures, multiplication table
• 3rd - terms & repeated addition, arrays, patterns, unknown numbers, word problems
• 4th - terms & patterns, particular products, word problems, long multiplication, word problems & variables
• 5th - order of operation & expressions, functions, properties & strategies, long multiplication, decimals

There's also printable worksheets for teachers that don't have classroom sets of iPads, and kids can print diploma-like certificates once they complete topics.

If you would like to download one or more of the AppTutor series (Free iPad/iPhone) please support Smart Apps for Kids by using these link buttons:

Grade K                   Grade 1                 Grade 2 Addition     Grade 2 Multiplication

   

 

Grade 3                    Grade 4                 Grade 5

  

** Only the app's developer can control when an app is free or not. All apps that we post as Good Free Apps of the Day are verified to be free at the time of this post. We make no guarantees otherwise. **

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From iTunes:

Welcome to AppTutor Grade 2 Addition. Not just another quiz or worksheet app, this 2nd Grade learning tool TEACHES the Common Core State Standards skills required for your child to excel in 2nd Grade Addition! Three distinct teaching modes encourage comprehensive conceptual understanding of required Common Core Grade 2 skills in a fun and easy to understand style.

✔ Full app is included - No in-app upgrades
✔ No advertising
✔ One purchase will load on your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

✔ Grade 2 Addition Overview – This app teaches students how to find numerical solutions up to 1000 using concrete models to solve equations and how to solve multi-step word problems based on properties of operations.  G2A encourages students to become fluent with addition skills and to add within 20 using several mental strategies. Covers all Common Core Skills required for 2nd grade Addition.

★ Great for use in classroom or tutoring environments - teachers & reviewers see our note below. ★

App includes:

✔ Five skill-based animated Learn Lesson videos which utilize both visual and auditory learning styles to reinforce comprehension. Specific Grade 2 Addition Common Core skills are introduced in each of these lessons:

• Addition Strategies
• Picture Addition
• Word Problems
• Input/Output Table
• Long Addition

✔ Five fun, interactive Try Modules to practice & reinforce Common Core skills presented in the Learn Lessons utilizing a kinesthetic learning style:

• Function Factory utilizing random Input + Rule = Output equations
• Long Addition random equation training module
• Word Problem interactive step-by-step training module
• Over 100 Flash Cards with answers
• AppTutor Quick Challenge timed recollection tool

✔ 2nd Grade Addition Test Section verifies conceptual understanding of every Common Core skill addressed.

★★★★★ Additional Grade 2 Addition Features ★★★★★

✔ Full functionality in iPad, iPhone and iPod devices
✔ Supports three named students plus a guest user
✔ Tracking includes independent progress status for each user
✔ Design fully supports the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI).
✔ One-click detailed audio instruction available throughout
✔ Always available Scratch Pad encourages counting and creative reasoning
✔ Hints Sheet for handy reference, emailing and printing
✔ 34 pages of targeted-skills Worksheets covering over 550 unique questions for extra practice with answer key
✔ Comprehensive skill-based testing to verify conceptual understanding of all Common Core skills addressed
✔ Intra-test wrong answer feedback to enhance recollection of key concepts
✔ Random test question generation ensures equal testing and grading for all Common Core skills addressed
✔ Printable Certificate of Training upon completion in both AirPrint and email format
✔ Over 1,500 unique problems throughout the app

Grade 2 Addition Common Core State Standards addressed include:

➢ 2.OA.1  Use addition within 100 to solve one and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, putting together, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions.

➢ 2.OA.2  Fluently add within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

➢ 2.NBT.5  Fluently add within 100 using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.

➢ 2.NBT.7  Add within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, and properties of operations.

➢ 2.NBT.8  Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900.

➢ 2.NBT.9  Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.


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Every day we pick what we affectionately call the Good Free App of the Day, an app that we have downloaded, tested and certified: It can't have a ton of ads or just a little content with a ton of in-app purchases.

It also has to be good.

We then present them to you to read, download, and share and, based on which ones got the most hits, here are your Top 100 Favorite Free Apps! Enjoy!

We've done our best to only include apps that are permanently free, but sometimes developers do change their minds so please leave a comment if you find an app that's no longer free.


Please also see our Top 10 Preschool Apps (staff picks), Top 10 Free Apps for Learning Letters, Deanne's Top 10 Free Apps for ASD Kids, Top 12 Apps for Mom, Editor's Top 10, Reader's Choice Top 10, and Top 10 Addition Apps.

(** indicates that the app contains in-app purchases or is very closely tied to a purchase)
1) Educreations Interactive Whiteboard (students/teachers can make whiteboard videos)
2) LEGO App 4+ (build a vehicle and then use it in activities)
3) Open Wide Snap (we rated five stars)
4) ** Toddler/Preschool Flash Cards (warning! now has ads!)
5) Disneyland Explorer
6) National Geographic Explorer
7) Toy Story Read Along
8) The Lorax
9) Hide Run Growl (we rated five stars)
10) Peggy Storybook 1
11) Play 123
12) ** Storylines for Schools
13) Little Stars - Toddler Games  (letters, numbers, shapes, colors, words)
14) Disney's Where's My Water - free
15) Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Road Rally Appisode
16) ** Playful Minds: Math (5-8 years old)
17) ** Build a Word Express
18) ABC Alphabet Phonics
19) Rover (flash-enabled web browser for kids)
20) Lego Star Wars - Battle Orders
21) Little Writer - Tracing Letters, Numbers, Words and Shapes (awesome app)
22) Disney's Jake's Never Land Pirate School
23) Learning Games for Preschool to Kindergarten
24) Scholastic's Sushi Monster (addition and multiplication)
25) NASA App HD
26) I Can Write 2 (make sentences about images)
27) Khan Academy (educations videos for adults and older children)
28) PBS Kids Video (all their favorites, U.S. only)
29) ** Draw Something (Pictionary online! Older kids/adults only)
30) ** Brain Quest (from the people that make those card thingees)
31) Miss Spider apps (Bedtime Story and Tea Party)
32) Super Duper's Using I and Me
33) ** Thomas & Friends - Engine Activities
34) ShowMe (virtual whiteboard app, shared education videos)
35) ** Goodnight Safari (baby animals!)
36) Toca Kitchen Monsters (all kids need Toca Boca)
37) Rocket Speller
38) ** Scribble Press (make an book!)
39) ** Toontastic (we rated five stars)
40) ** Puzzingo
41) Little Finder
42) Lego Duplo Jams
43) Touch the Sound
44) Color Uncovered (please don't let your dog drive)
45) The Elephant's Bath
46) ** Spy Mouse
47) Bluster! (McGraw-Hill)
48) Songs for Kids 1 and 2
49) ** Math Vs. Zombies
50) ** Let's Color (drawings come to life)
51) Chugginton - Be Safe
52) ** Alphabet Tracing
53) ABC Mouse Zoo Sets 1, 2 and 3
54) ** BrainPop Featured Movie (No. 1 on our Editor's Choice list) 2133
55) Easy Bake Cupcakes
56) ** Articulation Station (lite version, only one letter free)
57) Kids Learning - Photo Touch Learning Concepts
58) ** Clockwork Brain (mind-training puzzles for older kids/adults, has ads)
59) Rocket Math Free (free version of one of our Top Picks)
60) ABA Flash Cards & Games - Emotions
61) 6-in-1 Children's Games (lite version)
62) ** Sock Puppets
63) Green ABCs (previously cost $30)
64) ** Monkey Drum
65) iTunes U (go to college on your iOS device/older kids & adults)
66) Sprout's Doodle Dots
67) ** MeeGenius (six ebooks for free!)
68) DialSafe Pro (we gave five stars, kids learn to dial emergency numbers)
69) Whole Foods' Awesome Eats
70) Creatures of Light (bioluminescence!)
71) Feel Electric (The Electric Company is back!)
72) Tim and Tom
73) Lego Duplo Zoo
74) Hookitty-Tookitty-Tah
75) Cool To Be Clever
76) Sprout's Good Night Star (nighttime routine, brusha! brusha! brusha!)
77) ** Booksy (one of our Top Picks)
78) Language Lab: Core Words
79) Hannah Habeebee McHats
80) Jeff the Mis-Fish
81) Kids Learning - My First Numbers Counting Game
82) SpellingCity
83) Screen Chomp (virtual whiteboard)
84) Chipper's Rainy Day Adventure
85) Jack and the Beanstalk (modern version of the classic tale)
86) ABC Mouse Grand Canyon
87) Lego Star Wars Funzone
88) Super Duper's Let's Name Things
89) ** BrainPop Jr. Movie of the Week
90) Stewie The Duck Learns To Swim
91) Google Earth
92) Fisher Price's Laugh & Learn Animal Sounds
93) Disney's Where's My Perry Free
94) Real Fireworks Artwork
95) ** Motion Math - Hungry Fish
96) Squiggles (bring scribbles to life, one of our Top Picks)
97) Little Stars - Word Wizard
98) Adventures of the 7Wonderlicious Girls (girls doing their best, helping others, being brave, learning and feeling good about themselves)
99) The Lorax Truffula Shuffle (U.S. only for some reason)
100) Scooby-Doo Whos Are You? by Hallmark (Zoinks!)


We've done our best to only include apps that are permanently free, but sometimes developers do change their minds, so please leave a comment if you find an app that's no longer free.
(** indicates that the app contains in-app purchases or is very closely tied to a purchase)

Comments

[Cynthia]

Thank you!

[Jillian A]

Just downloaded the kinder app and it is great! Many different modalities and very visual and tactile. Thank you for the heads up!

[Karen Tolman]

Thank you so much !

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