Swedish Montessori Numbers vs Arithmetic Tutor

IMPORTANT NOTE: this app is *only* in Swedish. From the creator of the award-winning Montessori Crosswords and Word Wizard apps, Montessori Numbers is designed to help build sound mathematical foundations in children aged 3-7 by using a concrete, visually significant material inspired from the Montessori methodology. Montessori Numbers offers a sequence of guided activities that gradually help children reinforce their skills. Each activity offers several levels of increasing complexity. • Learn to count • Experiment with quantities and learn their names • Learn the numerals and their names • Associate quantities with numerals/numbers • Understand the decimal system and place value • Learn to trace numbers (new in v2!) Montessori Numbers builds on the iPad’s touch feature, and uses verbal feedback for more efficient learning. The app can pronounce any number between 0 and 1009 (American, British and Australian voices available). YouTube : http://bit.ly/numbersvideo & http://bit.ly/tracingvideo ___________ • Activities • ___________ • 1 to 20 This activity is designed to introduce numbers. 3 levels of difficulty: 0 to 5, 0 to 10 and 11 to 20. • Quantity In this activity, kids associate quantities to numbers by manipulating units, bars of 10, and squares of 100 to match a given number which is pronounced and optionally displayed. 3 levels of difficulty: 0 to 9, 10 to 99 and 100 to 999. • Numerals In this activity, number names are to be associated with numerals. As a number name is pronounced, kids are invited to build the corresponding numeral. Kids can freely experiment with numerals and hear the names associated with each numeral they build. The quantity representing the numbers built is also displayed to reinforce the association between quantity and numerals. 3 levels of difficulty: 0 to 9, 10 to 99 and 100 to 999. • Numerals (from Quantity) In this activity, a quantity is to be associated with a given numeral. The child must build the number that matches the quantity displayed. This is the most complex activity because the child must count the quantity displayed, and then build the number using the numerals. 3 levels of difficulty: 0 to 9, 10 to 99 and 100 to 999. • Building Block Game: A game can be started at the end of each activity (availability can be modified in settings). There is no “real” goal to this game - kids can play freely with the materials, thus becoming more familiar with them. Kids can add any material and numeral they want, and build whatever they want. • Number Tracing (New in v2) Learn to trace numbers with animations that follow the child's touch. Several options (size, difficulty, tracing style, show/hide model) are available to tailor the activity to your needs. ___ This app will help your child in learning the following Common Core State Standards domains: • Counting and Cardinality (K.CC) • Operations and Algebraic Thinking (K.OA, 1.OA.1/2/5) • Number & Operations in Base Ten (K.BNT,1.NBT.1/2/4/5/6, 2.NBT.1/2/3/5/8/9, 3.NBT.1/2). The app is great to deal with place value. --- KNOW WHAT'S INSIDE As a MOMs with Apps member, we follow the "Know what's inside" best practices for kids’ apps. We don't collect user data, there is no in-app purchase and there is a parental gate for all external links.

Arithmetic helps your kid master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Carefully planned drills and hints ensure that the child really understands how these operations work. You pick the operation and the drill set (for example, addition within 10), select the drill (for example Add 1, 2, or 3) , and the child answers 60 questions. At the end, if he makes mistakes, he has to do a wrong answer quiz that will give him hints to fix them. The hints assume that he already mastered the previous drills. After that, you can check his work. You’ll see the time that it took him to take the quiz, the mistakes that he made, and the time that it took him to correct them. Once your child can consistently do a drill in less than 5 minutes with no mistakes, he is ready to move on to the next drill. Here is an example. Say your child is on the drill where he adds 1, 2, or 3. This means that he already mastered adding 1 and 2. If he makes a mistake adding 3, during the wrong answer quiz, the app will ask him to add 2 first, and then ask to add 3 (If he makes a mistake adding 2, the app will ask to add 1 and go back to adding 2 after getting the right answer). This way, your child will be able to answer the questions based on what he already learned earlier.