Useful Apps

MindShift has published some useful apps and a brief description of them. Please click here to visit the page.

Geoboard

 

Geoboard

Children can stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons. They can make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles and fractions. This can be used with young children who are still doscovering properties of shapes, right up to intermediate phase children who are learning about congruence and angles.

Mental Maths

 Emma's Mental Maths

This is a fun way to improve mental maths skills! There are multiple levels to move up and you are only able to move up to a new level once you have mastered it. This is a great tool for early finishers in the classroom.

Fractions

 

 

K12 Equivalence Tiles

This is a very useful whole class teaching tool, or small group teaching tool.
The tiles let you compare the the values of fractions, decimals and percents up to 1 by using draggable tiles of varying values.

3D building blocks

Tap tap blocks

This is a great app to use as a whole class or in small groups. From an early age, children can build on the concept of perimeter and area.
Simply tap any block to add a new block to add at that spot. Rotate your 3D blocks with just one finger.

Investigating 3D shapes

Our Grade 5 maths class have been working with 3D shapes.  Have a look at their site to see how their teacher led them through a discovery process, reinforced their learning and provided resources.

Graph Book

Graph Book is a collection of 2D, 3D and 4D interactive graphing examples

Math Ref

Math Ref is a math reference with 1300 helpful formulas

Jumbo Calculator

Jumbo Calculator is a free calculator app.