Times Tables vs Math Slide

Little Monkey Apps Times tables provides the repetition required for the mastery of times tables with innovative presentation and delivery. No more 20 out of 20! Little Monkey App Times tables presents students with a random grid of 81 spaces asking multiplication questions from numbers 1 through 12. Unlike flash card methods, individual tables or multiple choices, students must use their knowledge to commit to a specific answer. Students complete each answer using the monkey calculator, promoting calculator skills as a bonus. Little Monkey Apps Times tables endeavours to provide support to students' individual capabilities. The pencil corrector enables them to 'peek' at the answers if they wish to measure their progress throughout the game. Beginning students will find this useful to check if they are on the right track. This feature also encourages self-correction and checking of answers. More confident students are able wait until they finish all 81 tiles. Little Monkey Apps Times tables measures progress through the achievement of speed and more importantly, accuracy. Students and parents can track progress through accuracy percentage and improvements to time, meaning improvements can be monitored on an individual basis rather than comparison to others. Little Monkey Apps Times tables challenges students to remain engaged to beat their own personal record through the acquisition of badges. Specific badges are awarded for targeted milestones such as speed, accuracy and 'not peeking'. Every student will want to continue to play to beat their own personal record and achieve these badges. Little Monkey Apps Times tables is an interesting, alternative delivery of mastering times tables content. You can now also play smaller grid games! A new practise game has also been added. This allows students to practise on a table at a time. Students simply tap the '?' beside the question to see the answer. Note the practise activity does not record badges. Times tables can be fun!

Math Slide: Basic Facts is a multiplayer game helping children to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication & division basic number facts. Players play and learn by sliding tiles into the center to match an image, answer or equation. To progress and succeed at mathematics children need to be able to easily recall basic number facts. Math slide is a fun way to learn and practice this key skill. This School Edition can be used with Apple’s Volume Purchasing Program for Education VPP and contains the same games as Math Slide: add & subtract and Math Slide: multiply & divide. Features • Multiplayer game, suitable for one, two, three or four players • Games can be played in Competition Mode or Collaboration Mode • 20 games all focused on basic number facts • All games can be played unlimited times • Each game is a little harder than the previous game • The app focuses on a critical math concept vital for success How to play 1. Select Competition Mode or Collaboration Mode 2. Select a game to play 3. Players join the game by pressing the ‘Join’ button 4. Press ‘Start Game’, wait for the count down, then play 5. Slide a tile into the center to match the image, answer or equation 6. Once tiles are used the game ends Math focus of each game Addition & subtraction Game 1 – representing doubles & pairs to 10 Game 2 – doubles up to 10, pairs that equal 10 Game 3 – doubles up to 10, pairs that equal 10 Game 4 – representing number facts up to 10+10 Game 5 – addition facts up to 10+10 Game 6 – subtraction facts up to 10+10 Game 7 – addition & subtraction facts up to 10+10 Game 8 – number facts with answers to 20 Game 9 – pairs of number facts: 6 + 7 = 8 + ? Game 10 – triples of number facts: 6 + 5 + ? = 15 Multiplication & division Game 11 – 2x, 5x, 10x number facts Game 12 – 2x, ÷2, 5x, ÷5, 10x, ÷10 number facts Game 13 – 3x, 4x number facts Game 14 – 3x, ÷3, 4x, ÷4 number facts Game 15 – 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, x ÷ number facts Game 16 – 6x, ÷6 number facts Game 17 – 7x, ÷7 number facts Game 18 – 8x, ÷8 number facts Game 19 – 9x, ÷9 number facts Game 20 – 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, x ÷ number facts Maths Adventures Limited is a New Zealand company helping children learn mathematics. We develop apps that focus on the key concepts that need to be fully understood to progress and succeed in mathematics. Our apps range from learning to count up to understanding and using fractions and decimals, with each app focusing on one key concept. We believe: • Everyone can learn mathematics • Playing educationally rich games and apps improves understanding • Learning math should be fun and exciting, a rewarding adventure Math Slide is part of our ‘play and learn’ series, which are games high in educational value where children learn as they play. Our apps are research based and classroom tested to make sure they help children learn. We use the power of the iPad and technology to empower teachers and help children understand and learn key math concepts and to unravel misunderstandings.