IPAD Apps to support Early Numeracy

10 Frame Fill – Provides children with practice with recognising additive “10 Families” (e.g., 1 and 9, 2 and 8 etc.) Set the 10 frame to fill in sequence or randomly. Use contrasting colour chips to fill the 10 frame as you determine the answer. Select to show a corresponding number sentence.

Free

Hunderd Board 100 This Hundreds board helps children count and recognise numbers from 1-100. The board and tiles in the app are exact replicas of the classic classroom pocket charts. You can have a numbered board or a blank board. The task is to transfer the scrambled number tiles on the right side to the board in the correct order by drag and placing the tiles into position. There is the option to assist students with tiles coloured in sets of 10 at time. Students can also create skip counting patterns. Every number can be heard aloud when placed into position, reinforcing the name of each for the student.

Free +in app purchases

Hunderd Board 101-200 – This Hundreds board helps children count and recognise numbers from 101-200. The board and tiles in the app are exact replicas of the classic classroom pocket charts. You can have a numbered board or a blank board. The task is to transfer the scrambled number tiles on the right side to the board in the correct order by drag and placing the tiles into position. There is the option to assist students with tiles coloured in sets of 10 at time. Students can also create skip counting patterns. Every number can be heard aloud when placed into position, reinforcing the name of each for the student.

Free +in app purchases

Number 1-100 Numbers 1-100 for identification and pronunciation. You can also extend the multiples of 2, 3, 5, 10, and odd, even, and digits. Available in Chinese and English versions.

free

100s Board A digital 100's board that can show and hide all of the numbers to 100. Numbers can be pressed to change from black to red. All numbers can be hidden or shown at the same time, or in rows / columns of ten. Ten ‘draggable’ counters are also included for even more fun and games!This is a great educational K-12 app for helping children with their mathematics, making sense of numbers to 100. 100's Board can be used for counting in 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's or can be used for any number of math games such as 'squeeze' or 'guess my number'.

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Tens Frame A tens frame is a simple yet very effective tool for playing with numbers up to five, ten and on the iPad up to twenty. This app provides a tens frame and ten counters, five blue and five green.

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Fiends of Ten Little Monkey Apps Friends of Ten is an activity to be used in the early years of schooling to introduce an early understanding of numbers to ten, counting objects to ten, subitising - recognising a collection of objects without counting them, counting on from a higher number, partitioning of objects and the combinations that make ten 8+2, 2+8, 1+9, 3+7 etc. These skills underpin mental addition and subtraction.

The importance of recalling number combinations that make ten are that students use strategies for addition, that is, knowing that 7+3 is the same as 8+2. This introduces the idea of patterns and compensation (one up, one down). These activities develop the concept that addition and subtraction are linked.

The App is broken up into a number of sections. A teaching module and independent tasks to reinforce skills.-a blank form with counters to be used with teacher interaction-Show me task to create a given number on the Tens frame-How many? -Friends of Ten -How many less?-How many more?

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Subitising Flash Cards Little Monkey Apps subitising provides beginning counters the opportunity to practice and test their subitising knowledge to quickly recognize small groups of objects without counting.When you look at a die, you don’t need to count the dots. This immediate response is called subitising. Students can then build on this knowledge of standard patterns (die patterns) to look at non-standard patterns, mentally and visually manipulating the position of the objects and subitise the objects present. Subitising provides opportunities for students to ‘trust the count’ which links to early addition and subtraction, counting on and counting back. Subitising allows students to see and interpret patterns and part-whole relationships such as 2+1+2=5 on a die. 

-Flash card -Flash cards with non-standard positioning of images up to twelve. Double click screen to show matching numeral. Swipe to move onto next card.-Dice -Flash cards with standard presentation of die dots. Swipe to move onto next card.-Doubles Dice -Flash cards with standard presentation of dice dots on two dice. This is useful to extend subitizing into addition facts. Swipe to move onto next card.-Ten frames -Flashcards with standard and non-standard presentation of dots in a ten frame. Double click screen to show matching numeral. Swipe to move onto the next card.-Number Match -A simple Game in which you are asked to click the numeral to match the group of images presented.-Teacher Tool -Create your own subitising card then use the pencil tool to show groups or move the position of objects. Useful for demonstrating thinking or for demonstrating metacognition skills.

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Dominoes Addition builds upon early subitising skills and extends this into early addition skills. Dominoes are used to teach basic sums, fill the gap sums and equal sums (equations) using the familiar dot pattern found on dominoes.

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Number Lines helps to introduce the concept of number lines to young students through the use of cute little frogs that make steps and leaps. When introducing basic mathematical skills such as counting, ordering, addition and subtraction, it is important to use a variety of models such as a counters, drawings and number lines to explain and physically model problems.Number Lines aims to students to visualise numbers for rote counting and ordering and to see the physical position of a number linking patterns and relationships. Unlike counters, which model counting, a number line also models measurement, which is why the number line begins with zero as you would see on a ruler. Students are also exposed to different vocabulary for addition and subtraction such as step forward or jump back to physically suggest the movement of the frog along the number line. Little Monkey Apps Number Lines can be used for a variety of purposes including simple counting, to make jumps or leaps, to model addition and subtraction, for a group of students to demonstrate their thinking visually, to practice skip counting and to demonstrate simple multiples. 

Free +in app purchases

Dino Math – the objective is to get five dinosaurs in a row by correctly answering maths problems. There are four modes: add, subtract, multiply, divide. Choose from 3 difficulty levels

Ten Frame Mania – Play and learn number sense. This app helps with understanding cardinality of numbers and how different numbers work together. The goal of the game is eliminate numbers moving on a pathway. To eliminate them, you have to make them using a ten frame. As you progress through the levels, the numbers will enter the pathway sooner and will move faster through it. Can you make them fast enough and before they reach the end of the map? Can you go faster by using the shortcuts to fill the 5 or 10 frames, hence making the numbers more quickly?

There are six levels, each containing three rounds. As you progress through the levels, the range of the number and the amount of numbers are bigger. And the challenge grows too!Also available on desktop- http://gregtangmath.com/tenframemania

Line ‘em Up Designed to promote mastery of number order. This app replicates a simple classroom activity in which children place number tiles in order from least to greatest. 

Options include using 10, 15, or 20 number tiles and designating a range of beginning numbers. Includes options in the iPad version to designate the beginning number as well as setting options to worth with hundreds and negative numbers.

Free

Number Rack facilitates the natural development of children’s number sense. The movable, coloured beads encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens, helping them to explore and discover a variety of addition and subtraction strategies.FEATURES• Display 1 to 5 rows of beads, 10 beads per row. On the iPad, display up to 10 rows.• Hide beads with the resizable shade, which allows teachers or learners to model subtraction or difference problems. • Reverse the colours of rows 6 to 10 to distinguish (or not) groupings of 25 beads.• Use the drawing tools to annotate work and show understanding• Write equations and expressions with the text tool.

Free

Number Line helps students visualize number sequences and demonstrate strategies for counting, comparing, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. Choose number lines labelled with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, or negative numbers. Or use a blank number line, with or without tick marks. Describe intervals between points on the line using forward or backward jumps above and below the line. Jumps can also be labelled with their values or left blank. Add custom tick marks to the number line to show equivalence or compare number values. Show strategies with drawing and annotation tools.Hide elements of the sequence shown on the number line, which challenges students to use what they know about number relationships and computation to identify those missing elements. 

FEATURES• Mark the number line with multiples of whole numbers, fractions, or decimals. In addition, hide or display negative values.• Use the Go To feature to move to locations on the number line beyond the scrolling limits.• Add and manipulate forward and backward jumps, above or below the line.• Label jump bars, automatically or manually, to show intervals or hide labels altogether.• Add custom tick marks and values to the blank number lines.• Hide and reveal numbers on the number line.• Use the drawing tools to annotate work and show understanding.• Write equations and expressions with the text tool, including stacked fractions.

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Hungry Fish Practice mental addition and subtraction with Motion Math: Hungry Fish, a delightful learning game that's fun for children and grownups!

Your fish is hungry for numbers. You can make delicious sums by pinching two numbers together – instant addition! Keep feeding your fish to win a level and unlock new colours and fins.The app is free to try, with In-App purchase for an addition level and two subtraction and negative levels. (Plus purchase anything and you'll get bonus fish colours and fins.)

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Number Magic 2 Help strengthen 1-10 number concept while having fun!.In this app children can enjoy two different modes of number play:A.)Matching quantities to quantities using 4 types of counters.B.)Matching Numerals to quantities using 4 types of counters.

Know Your Math Facts is an educational app to help children memorize addition and subtraction math facts with sums/differences to 20. A math triangle and fact families are used to help children understand the relationship between addition and subtraction and enable children to learn multiple related facts at once making recall easier and quicker. In this fun game, children solve math facts by dragging a number into the corner of a hand-drawn math triangle. There are 15 levels targeting a specific group of math facts. Each level has a fun colourful theme that will keep children engaged. There is also a timed test component which allows children to test their knowledge. A summary page is also provided with the time spent and facts to study.1st Grade Math -Splash Maths1. Addition - Add numbers within 20 using various methods with the help of pictures and models2. Subtraction - Subtract numbers within 20 using various methods with the help of pictures and models3. Advanced Addition - Add three numbers within 20 and solve word problems involving addition4. Advanced Subtraction - Subtract to compare and solve word problems involving subtraction5. Mixed Operations - Fact families and missing numbers in addition and subtraction equation6. Place Value - Work with basic concepts of place value involving amounts of tens and ones in two digit numbers7. Counting and Comparison - Count to 120 and compare and order numbers two digit numbers based understanding of place value8. Time - Read and set time in hours and half-hours using clocks9. Measurements - Measure lengths of objects using smaller objects and order three objects based on length10. Addition Facts - Add 1, 2, 3...9 to another number11. Subtraction Facts - Subtract 1, 2, 3...9 from another number12. Data and Graphs - Analyse and organize data in up to three categories using charts and picture graphs13. Geometry - Recognize shapes based on defining attributes and partition circle and rectangles into halves and fourths

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14. Money - Identify coins and their values and count money using coins

2nd Grade Maths1. Place Value - Extend place value understanding to hundreds place. Read and write three digit numbers in various forms2. Number Sense - Compare and order three digit numbers. Practice skip counting and recognize even/odd numbers3. Add within 20 - Fluently add within 20 including word problems4. Subtract within 20 - Fluently subtract within 20 including word problems5. Add within 100 - Use place value understanding to add two digit numbers6. Subtract within 100 - Use place value understanding to subtract two digit numbers7. Add within 1000 - Add two three digit numbers based on concepts of place value and using models8. Subtract within 1000 - Subtraction involving two three digit numbers based on concepts of place value and using models9. Time - Read and set time to 5 minutes using analogue and digital clocks10. Money - Work with money coins to count money and solve problems involving money amounts11. Measurements - Measure and estimate lengths of objects in customary and metric units12. Data - Represent and interpret data in up to 4 categories using line plots, picture graphs and bar graphs13. Geometry - Identify two dimensional shapes including pentagons and hexagons, partition shapes into halves, thirds and fourths

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Make 10 Plus Have fun while doing math! Students will learn and improve math skills with simple, fun and engaging play. Your goal is to Make 10 as fast and often as you can by tapping the tile that adds up to 10 before the wall of tiles reaches the top.Knowing how to Make 10 is the key for adding bigger numbers in your head. Teachers call this mastering the Make 10 fact families.

DIFFERENT LEVELS:Emergent/Perceptual -- Not yet ready for adding numbers? Start with dots and count them to Make 5. Start at Level 0 to enjoy a slower speed.

Perceptual/ Figurative/Counting on and Back-- Already a champ at Make 10? Try different challenges. Start at a faster level or find out how fast you can make change for a dollar by setting to 'Make 100.' How about how many minutes until the hour? Set to 'Make 60.' Or set to randomly change the 'Make sum' after each level.

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Finger Glove Counting Help young children practice counting 1 to 10. This app is patterned after the common “finger gloves” worn by students. The images in the app are shown in the same orientation as if viewing the back of the user’s hands. 

• Counting begins with the pinky of the left hand. • Increase or decrease the display one finger at a time. Or, tap the “puzzle piece” button to display a random set of fingers. Options include:• Displaying hands with or without numerals on fingertips. • Displaying or hiding a 10-frame that fills to match the number of fingers displayed.• Setting to have the numbers spoken aloud.

Free

Domino 10 Frame Practice representing the pips from a domino in a 10-Frame. Uses dominos up to 9, 9 and one or two 10-Frames.

You have the options to show dominos so that the pips total 10 or less, 11 to 18, or 2 to 18. You also have options to show the number represented by the pips of the domino by dragging chips representing the pips to a 10-Frame or by dragging the pips themselves to a 10-Frame.

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Skip Counting Mobile Montessori is happy to bring to you our most popular Hundred Board extension: Skip Counting! This preschool math or kindergarten math app will help children who have mastered counting from 1 - 100 to expand their understanding of the sequencing of numbers. Schools around the world are currently using this app among in their curriculums of math apps for kids!Skip Counting will help children to grasp the concept of skip counting and the patterns they create! Skip Counting includes counting by:Twos,Threes,Fours,Fives,Sixes,Sevens,Eights,Nines,TensThe control numbers can be toggled on or off to assist children in counting out the next number in sequence. Use either the "Touch Only" or the "Drag & Place" method.

Free +in app purchases

Skip Counting is a game that helps children learn and practice skip counting. Skip Counting is a mental math strategy used to help with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It is a strategy that is built into the new common core starting as early as kindergarten.

This game helps provide skip counting practice for 1s, 2s, 3s, all the way up to the 10s. There is built in flexibility within the game to meet your child/student’s needs. You can select the number to count by, the amount of tiles in the number sequence, the minimum and maximum start value as well the number of hints. For an extra added challenge, you can also choose whether you would like to count by common multiples or uncommon multiples.

This game can also be used in the classroom for either whole group instruction or small group learning. It is a great way to practice the concepts taught in school.

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Maths Facts-Number Bonds will help you to learn your Number Bonds and Facts Families and your addition and subtraction facts and your multiplication and division facts. With a collection of fun and easy-to-play games you can quickly start exploring addition, subtraction, multiplication and even division facts.Maths Facts has a number of different games that allow you to focus on specific number bonds, or explore different facts families, addition facts, subtraction facts, and even multiplication facts and division facts. These games are quick to play and perfect for a short car journey.By default you can play with facts up to 10, but from the main menu you can also enable facts up to 20, to make the games a bit more difficult.

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Dice simulates accurately up to 7 (and 21 on iPad) dice simultaneously. Shake, or touch the screen to roll the dice. The side bar allows you to put some dice aside, and re-roll the others. If you need further settings, you can assign a colour to each die. An easy, but complete, set of features: • Shake to roll• Or simply tap anywhere on screen to roll• Each die can have its own colour (and even a random one)• Up to 7 dice on iPhone, 21 on iPad• Save dice in the side bar• Two fingers left swipe to move all dice to the side bar• Drag dice anywhere on screen to order them• Tired of the default background ? Pick an image from your own library

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MathTappers: Find Sums is designed to help learners to master basic addition and subtraction facts with understanding and then to encourage them to continue playing to develop efficient strategies and eventually improve their recall speed (fluency). This app doesn’t rely on the ‘magic’ of flash cards but rather presents useful models to support learners as they make sense of addition and subtraction. Although the game appears to be focused only on addition – subtraction is an inherent part of their activity and learning. Learners using this app are developing a sense of the relationship between two addends and a sum - providing them with opportunities to master both addition and subtraction facts concurrently. You cannot really understand that 7+3=10 or 3+7=10 without also understanding the rest of the fact family – i.e., that 10-7=3 and 10-3=7. It is expected that working with groups of fact families that share a common sum (e.g., sum to 10) will help learners to make connections between these families and synergistically enhance their mastery process.

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Ten Frame Mania The goal of the game is eliminate numbers moving on a pathway. To eliminate them, you have to make them using a ten frame. As you progress through the levels, the numbers will enter the pathway sooner and will move faster through it. Can you make them fast enough and before they reach the end of the map? Can you go faster by using the shortcuts to fill the 5 or 10 frames, hence making the numbers more quickly?

There are six levels, each containing three rounds. As you progress through the levels, the range of the number and the amount of numbers are bigger. And the challenge grows too!

Free

MathTappers: Number line is a learning game that challenges players to find the locations of numbers on a number line. This game allows players to develop their understanding of our number system and their proportional reasoning skills by giving them an opportunity to consider the relative positions of whole, integer and real numbers on a number line.

Free

PopMath Lite is the free version of the award winning PopMath Maths PlusIt is a fun way to practice basic math: 6 pairs of bubbles with numbers float on the screen above beautiful backgrounds. Each bubble contains a number, like 7 and 3+4: pop the right pairs!As you progress through levels, numbers increase. End of levels greet you with your time for that level, a message personalized to your performance, and the number of mistakes you did.This free version is limited to additions. The full version PopMath features additions, subtractions, multiplications and divisions, including the choice to practice a given operator for even better drills. It also contains many more background images for more fun.

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Counting Ants Lite is a great app for early learning and emergent counters - perhaps the best way to help your emergent students practice counting to ten. This app features adorable ants that zip around in their cars, while teaching children the basics of counting. The app automatically rotates through five minigames to keep them engaged while they learn to count. Minigames include: • Count the ducks • Count the fish • Count the fruit • Count the train cars • Find the numberCounting Ants Lite includes both English and Spanish and also offers support for additional languages via in-app purchase. Supported languages include Chinese, Japanese, Russian, French, Italian, Hungarian, Ukrainian and German.

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5 Dice Math Game -A math game intended for facile students that helps students enjoy practicing their order of operations. The game encourages students to use higher order thinking to solve the "target" number by working backwards given the answer but not the equation. KEY FEATURES:- Multiplayer (Bluetooth) Math Game! You can use up to 2 devices and play against your classmates or parents- Higher order thinking game (not a drill and kill game)- A whiteboard built into the game to make a way for students to work out problems- Easy to extend beyond the one player game to a classroom setting.

Are you the best shot? Can you solve problems involving multiple steps and multiple operations? A fun interactive game to help upper elementary and middle school students master and understand how the order of operations in math work.

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How to write numbers and letters - This app helps children learn how to write numbers and letters. Free

An Ocean Counting Game for Children to learn and play with Marine Animals  - Free

A Farm Counting Game for Children to learn and play with Animals of the Barn Free

Kids Calculator - Go2play - "Kids Calculator" is a calculator for kids to use, simple addition and subtraction, multiplication and division functions and adorable panda sound.

Free

Maths Splat -Math Splat is a simple number based app aimed at helping the user improve their mental math abilities. The aim of the game is to splat the answers to all the questions as fast as possible. Each game is timed and up to 3 incorrect answers per game are allowed however each incorrect answer will result in a 3 second penalty being added to the final time.Choose from 2 modes depending on age, ability and which math skills your child needs to practise.Level Mode- Choose from Easy, Medium and Hard- Save multiple games – Perfect for sharing at home and in the classroom.- Solve +, -, x and ÷ sums which gradually increase in difficulty.- Earn awards and personalised certificates to encourage children which can be saved to your camera roll for printing and emailing.Custom Mode- Create your own levels to practise the math skills your child needs to improve at.- Suitable for all ages and abilities as you choose the type of sums and the size of the numbers used.- Perfect for the classroom to let children practise the basic but most important math skills learned in lessons.

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- Choose to practise +, -, x, ÷, number bonds or doubling.Bubble Math! This app will test your maths skills, starting with simple sums through to more complex addition and subtraction. There are 25 questions per level. For every correct answer you get a star, with the aim to get all 25 correct. Complete one level to unlock further levels until you have completed them all.

Free

Number Bubble – Addition and Multiplication This app contains two games--Addition and Multiplication - Addition: Select number bubbles whose sum is equal to the target number.- Multiplication: Select two number bubble whose product is equal to the target number.

There are three game mode in each game.- Time Mode: Get as many points as possible in a limited time.- Survival Mode: Be careful!!! If you make a certain number of mistakes, game over.- Child Mode: Time mode with more time and lower difficulty

Free

Mathtopia The free version gives you access to the early levels of addition for free. Mathtopia +, the full version, costs $3.99 and includes levels for all operations (+, -, x, and ÷), multi-player challenges in the Game Centre, and the ability to unlock secret levels.

Free and paid

Number Flash Helps children transition from counting to number understanding.A ten frame with dots flashes on the screen (you can choose the number of seconds it appears on the screen).Then the ten frame disappears. Children need to choose the number of dots they saw in the ten frame.They can’t count because the picture has disappeared.

Free

Numbers Logic Puzzle Place digits next to each other so that their sum makes up 10. The number can be collected vertically or horizontally. If the sum is correct the digits disappear and you unlock the field tiles.. Try a number of free levels and unlock new ones to enjoy addictive gameplay!

Free - Offers In-App Purchases

Kris Graham Aug 2018 – Please email me with any other apps you find which could be added to this list to keep updatedKristine.graham@det.nsw.edu.au