Comparison

Math Slide vs Running Record Calculator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Math Slide

This game helps children master basic math facts through engaging multiplayer challenges. Players slide tiles to match equations, images, or answers, making learning addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division fun and interactive. It offers a progressive difficulty curve across 20 distinct games.

Highlights
  • Multiplayer modes (1-4 players)
  • Competition and Collaboration modes
  • 20 games for basic number facts
  • Unlimited gameplay
  • Progressive difficulty
  • Focus on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
Features
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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.

About

Running Record Calculator

This app helps educators calculate and track student reading data, including age differential and words per minute. It simplifies the process of recording running records and viewing student progress across terms.

Highlights
  • Calculate age differential
  • Calculate words per minute
  • Store and track student data
  • Create and manage classes
  • Quick Stats for progress overview
  • Benchmark result calculation
Features
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Are you ready to move to an app that allows you to calculate, store and track student data? If you answered yes, this app is for you! Users can create a class or multiple classes, add and move students, calculate age differential, words per minute, and by inputting the running records data you’ll be able to calculate the benchmark results in a flash. Are you tired of having a list and looking through it, to see who you’ve tested and who you’ve still got left to test? The Quick Stats feature makes this task so simple across the four terms in a year. Wow! Our Running Records Calculator is designed by teachers for teachers. It certainly cuts down on the administration side of storing and recording reading records. This app has so many great features right at your fingertips.

Screenshots

Math Slide4 screens
Running Record Calculator3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Math Slide at 33% against Running Record Calculator's 0%. Math Slide also leads on price ($2.99 vs $3.99) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 26.0). Running Record Calculator's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Math Slide costs $2.99 and Running Record Calculator $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Math Slide ships an update every 3 months, Running Record Calculator every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Math Slide versus Running Record Calculator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMath SlideRunning Record Calculator
Price$2.99 — better$3.99
Rating2.6 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMath AdventuresBinary Hub Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Math Slide

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Running Record Calculator

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Math Slide

No in-app purchases

None

Running Record Calculator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Math Slide free?
Math Slide costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Running Record Calculator free?
Running Record Calculator costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Math Slide or Running Record Calculator have ads?
Neither Math Slide nor Running Record Calculator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Math Slide or Running Record Calculator?
Math Slide ships an update every 3 months, and Running Record Calculator every 10 days. Most recently, Math Slide was updated on October 4, 2026 and Running Record Calculator on September 17, 2026.

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