TouchCounts vs Pi Le Fuchs

TouchCounts lets children use their fingers, eyes and ears to learn to count, add and subtract. By tapping and swiping and by using specially-designed gestures for adding and subtracting, children create and manipulate their own numbers, developing a stronger number sense as they explore the mathematical foundations of ordinality, cardinality, and arithmetic. As children begin to learn how to count with their fingers, TouchCounts is the perfect environment to solidify that learning and help them generalize beyond their fingers, “going past ten” into the endless world of larger values. TouchCounts allows children to focus on both ordered and operational views of numbers, inviting them to develop their number sense by creating and exploring coordinated number sequences tactilely, visually, symbolically and verbally. In addition, learners can explore how numeric quantities can be composed from–and decomposed into–other, smaller quantities. Neither a repetitive drill-and-practice worksheet nor an rigid "level-driven" game, TouchCounts is a mathematics exploration environment designed to allow students to discover, pose and examine their own questions and understandings. Sample activities on the TouchCounts website show parents and teachers how TouchCounts can support learners' conceptual understanding of: - number naming - counting and skip-counting - ordinality and cardinality - even and odd numbers - less-than, greater-than and equal-to relationships - subitization - addition, subtraction, and the foundations of division and multiplication. Based on contemporary research understandings of how children learn mathematics, and developed by the Tangible Mathematics Learning Project in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, TouchCounts is intended for use in school, pre-school and at home; and with small groups, with 1:1 pairings of a learner and a parent or teacher, or individually.

Pi Le Fuchs is a math app. The current version is suitable for children in preschool and first grade. Other levels will be offered in future versions.   Children in particular are involved in the development of this app. Each task has been carefully designed and developed.   Pi Le Fuchs works without an internet connection. Thus, the children can work without problems.   The application analyses the student's level and automatically adjusts the exercises. Regularly, an assessment of the student's level is carried out and presented. Parents can follow the development of the child's skills on the dashboard dedicated to them.   The application is continuously developed. Other levels will be offered.   Please leave us your feedback, we will appreciate it.   About Us: We firmly believe that with the help of digitalisation, children have many opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills. Our app is essentially based on the German school curriculum and was designed by children for children. Learning is the priority. We deliberately refrain from integrating too many playful elements that would disturb the child's attention.   Data protection: We take the issue of data protection very seriously, especially when it comes to children. That's why this app works without internet connection. This means that no data is collected or downloaded. All data remains on the device.