Hands vs Make 10
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hands
This app provides a virtual playground for students to explore place value, addition, and subtraction with regrouping using interactive base ten blocks. It supports learning whole numbers and decimals through hands-on discovery.
- Virtual base ten blocks
- Place value exploration
- Addition and subtraction with regrouping
- Whole number concepts
- Decimal concepts
- Interactive learning
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Hands-On Math: Base Ten Blocks is a virtual math manipulative playground where students explore and discover place value concepts and also learn addition and subtraction with regrouping. Our Base Ten Blocks allow students to experience and develop math concepts through interaction and discovery. When first learning place value, blocks can be set to represent ones, tens and hundreds. Later, to introduce decimals, blocks can be set to ones, tenths and hundredths. Topics: Whole Numbers Reading and Writing Numbers Decimals Addition and Subtraction Regrouping A comprehensive instructor's guide is available at the app URL given below. Note to Reviewers: Use Settings options to control Sound and Decimal settings. iPad sound must be turned on in Settings and also the switch on the side of iPad must also be in ON position for the sound to work.
Make 10
This math game helps children practice addition skills by summing numbers to 5 and 10. It's designed for young learners in 1st and 2nd grade who are beginning to memorize sums.
- Practices summing to 5
- Practices summing to 10
- Aids 1st and 2nd grade math skills
- Focuses on memorizing sums
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Make 10 is a math game that practices summing to 5 and 10. Most children start memorizing sums to 10 around 1st grade and 2nd grade.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Make 10 at Free against Hands's $2.99. Make 10 also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.2). Hands's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0). On ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Make 10 is free to download; Hands costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hands holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Hands | Make 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ventura Educational Systems | Sharyn Efimoff |
Customer experience
Hands
Make 10
In-app purchases
Hands
No in-app purchases
Make 10
No in-app purchases
