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Brain Dots: A brain teaser of an app that proves you may not be smarter than fifth grader.

by Liz Gumbinner | Educational Apps For Kids

When the director of our ad team, Lisa, tells me to try a new app, I know it’s going to be a good one. She has good taste. And this time it’s Brain Dots (for iOS and Android) which happens to be fun, challenging, infuriating, and sometimes totally...

$Let kids be their own cake boss with the Motion Math: Cupcake! app$

Let kids be their own cake boss with the Motion Math: Cupcake! app

by Julie | Educational Apps For Kids

Since my kids have been out of school for over a month, I’m on the lookout for ways to keep their minds engaged. My latest find is the Motion Math: Cupcake! app, and it’s been a huge hit around here. We’ve lauded Motion Math apps before, and while...

Web Coolness: Cool online camps for kids, a new Facebook feature (again), and roasting coffee with your smart phone

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. The Death Star gets a Lego Friends makeover. Whoa. The Tonight Show’s XBOX With My Mom contest is cracking us up. Ever wonder how to add a location tag to...

$Making math fun: 8 ways to help get teens excited about math$

Making math fun: 8 ways to help get teens excited about math

by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks

If you have a teen in your household, as some of us do, you’ll know that their math homework is getting much more challenging and sometimes (we’ll admit it) frustrating. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t ways for making math fun in really...

The Counting Kingdom: Like Plants vs. Zombies using addition

by Julie | Educational Apps For Kids

It’s hard to believe that in many places around the country, we’re halfway through the school year. But if your kids are like mine, that also means they’ve been drilling their math facts for months, and they could probably use a change of pace. The...

Web Coolness: Big Instagram news, the ultimate Minecraft holiday gift, our new favorite YouTube channel for kids

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We’ve got lots of Minecraft gift ideas for kids you can still get before the holidays, like this cool shirt (above), or what we think might be...

Super cool, geeky holiday ornaments for trees that could benefit from chemistry or a sine curve.

by Julie | Holiday Picks

Our family Christmas tree is never going to be pictured in a design magazine, and that’s not just because I let the kids do the decorating. I like to let my family’s personality shine through our ornaments, which means all of those kid-created ornaments...

Tiggly Math: One of the best preschool tech toys of the year.

by Christina Refford | Tech Toys and Random Fun

Not every toy we buy our kids has to have some sort of “educational component” to it, though I love when I find a great toy that so brilliantly combines play with learning. Such is the case with Tiggly whose Tiggly Shapes was a favorite toy for us in 2013....

5 of our favorite tech Pinterest pins

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Are you obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out these 5 tech pins, plus lots more from our site and around the web. 1. We love finding awesome math apps for kids that are fun too. 2. Hide all those unsightly power strips before you start your...

$Math apps for kids that are fun and focused on learning? Goes in the plus column in our ledger.$

Math apps for kids that are fun and focused on learning? Goes in the plus column in our ledger.

by Nicole Blades | Educational Apps For Kids

We’re always on the lookout for the best math apps for kids that put some fun in the fundamentals, especially for the 3- to 7-year-old crowd. Getting kids excited and interested in math from an early age just makes good sense — good number sense, to be...

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