Top 13 Best Math Apps Parents May Consider Installing For Their Kids (Part 1)

Along with the powerful development of technology, education in the 21st century has had a lot of changes, which are clearly shown in the technology application in the classes. It’s time for both parents and teachers to find out the best math apps for their kids.

Development Of Math Apps

Along with the appearance of radio in the 1920s, students started making acquaintance with learning many different types of knowledge remotely.

In 1951, they moved to the next step with videotapes that brought a variety of more lively and modern instructional methods.

In 1972, pocket calculators were invented and helped students solve calculations much faster than ever.

In June of last year, the Educational App Store listed that about 500,000 apps were available in the "Educational" category.

With such the massive volume, parents, as well as teachers, may face a lot of difficulties to realize what apps are a good choice for their kids, especially in some indispensable subject like math.

Take a quick look at the 13 following best math apps if you are looking for a tech app that can help your children learn math better.

1. Prodigy

Prodigy must be the first name in the list of the best math apps for kids. The math game’s success can be easily seen via the number, as well as the diversity, of its users. Until now, the free app is downloaded by 3 million parents, over 1 million teachers, and about 50 million students.

With Prodigy, users can learn all of the major topics in math, and possess more than 1300 skills for students from the first grade to the eighth grade. The app instructs users how to study math via duel games in which they will have to compete with in-game characters by answering a series of questions.

For users as teachers, they can leverage these questions as helpful learning materials. Developers also apply differentiated instruction and adaptive learning principles into the app to ensure the content is suitable for all students.

Instant reporting tools including Usage Reports and Progress Reports are another plus point of Prodigy, allowing both parents and teachers to update rapidly the content their kids are following, and therefore, they can customize it more suitably!

Prodigy is now available on Google Play Store, iTunes App Store, Web and Amazon Appstore. It aims at users from 6 to 14 years old.

2. Elephant Learning Math Academy

As one of the best math apps, Elephant Learning Math Academy helps kids learn the knowledge of mathematics within only three months, instead a full year if they spend 30 minutes per week on this app.

The app’s algorithm creates reports in real-time and allows parents to know the content their children are following, as well as their progress via an abundant repository of math activities.

However, the Elephant Learning Math Academy platform, in fact, is said to be unsuitable for school curriculums though developers claim it is designed to “focus on concepts rather than procedures” and compatible with general education curriculums.

Parents whose kids are under the age of 2 to 16 years old can download the app on Google Play, App Store or Web. Elephant Learning Math Academy costs $35 a month.

3. DoodleMaths

Co-founders Tom Minor and Nicola Chilman claim that the DoodleMaths app can be compared with a good tutor. It is developed based on the latest education technology – Adaptive Learning – that provides math content via so-called “7-a-day” activities according to both strong points and weak points of students.

Parents can easily control what content their kids are studying, as well as what content they need to improve via the Parent Dashboard feature.

Despite being developed in the United Kingdom, the app is built pursuant to the Common Core State Standards of the United States. It is now available on Google Play and App Store, and suitable for kids under 4-14 years old. Users can choose one of the three packages as below: $7.91 per month, $73.94 per year, or $224.49 for the whole life.

4. CK-12

As a non-profit organization in California, CK-12 aims to help more and more users to approach customizable and free open resources in the educational field.

CK-12 provides a lot of free and helpful lessons for those who are keen on STEM subjects. With it, students don’t need to follow boring traditional textbooks because it brings a variety of easy-to-understand concepts via flashcards, practical experiments, photo galleries, textual descriptions, multimedia simulations, and video lectures.

CK-12 is now available on Google Play, App Store, and Web and developed for kids between 4 to 18 years old. This app is completely free to download.

5. Khan Academy

Its developers call Khan Academy “global classroom” with a diverse resource that is suitable for almost all ages. The content of this app is built by math specialists and ranges from instructional videos to practice exercises.

Also, its adaptive learning technology allows users to realize their advantages, as well as to overcome their knowledge gaps.

The purpose of its developers when creating this app is to “inspire a lifetime of learning and discovery.”

Khan Academy is now free to download and available on Google Play, App Store and Web.

6. Buzzmath

Designed for middle school students, Buzzmath provides multiple missions in which they will have to save the chaotic Mathlantis along with an inventor called Alfred by restoring the math knowledge of the population in this land.

During the adventure, children will have a chance to travel through many various timelines and get acquainted with lots of renown mathematicians. Also, their major missions are recovering these mathematicians’ lost knowledge, as well as turning Mathlantis into its inherent appearance.

Similar to other math apps in this list, Buzzmath mainly focuses on kids from 3rd grade to 8th grade. Additionally, the activities of the app are built based on the TEKS and common core curricula.

It is now available on both App Store and Web and includes three packages as follows: $20 per month, $40 per month, and $60 per month.