by Eva Glettner | Best Apps, Educational Apps
A lot of readers ask us about great math apps for kids. (Cut The Rope only counts sort of) I’ve found a great one that’s equal parts science lesson and math course with a sprinkling of cool graphics thrown in for good measure. My kids are digging this...
by Eva Glettner | Best Apps, Educational Apps
If you’re like me, if you’re plunking down cash for an app, you really want it to be worth it. So an app with four games in one has my name all over it. And when all four games are educational for the kids, my heart swoons. Smash Party is just...
by Cool Mom Team | Back to School Tech
With so many of our big kids using tech gadgets on a daily basis, it seems only natural that they’d use them school. So for our final installment in our Back to School Tech series, we’ve rounded up some of the best educational apps for big kids, tweens,...
by Eva Glettner | Best Apps
I am all about tools that transform math problems into games that keep you engaged and thinking. So I am digging this new math app, Go Sum, because it is just perfect for kids that may be a bit math-phobic, while still keeping it interesting for the children that...
by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps
My kids have used their fingers and toes to help them understand numbers and counting from the days of 10 Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed through basic addition. And now there is a new app that uses technology to help reinforce these concepts with your iPad though,...
by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps
Believe it or not, summer brain drain is a real phenomenon. Bill Nye the Science Guy even said so recently on Kids Place Live (yes, the de facto radio station on in my car) and he mentioned that math and science are the first subjects to go. While I want my...
by Christina Refford | Uncategorized
It’s time for those lazy days of summer, when our kids just want to swim, eat ice cream, and make sand castles. . .and not spend one moment thinking about math facts. But, when there are a couple of apps that sneak math practice into a really fun—and...
by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized
Even though geometry might have been my worst subject in school, that doesn’t mean I can’t get a kick out of this hilarious onesie that might just be the ultimate gift for your favorite expecting math geek. The I’m Acute Baby onesie from Geekling...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Holiday Picks
For the geek who has everything, we’ve finally found the alpha and omega of custom gifts. Anyone can have a star. Anyone can have a diamond (at least, a little one). But now you can name a unique mathematical theory after your special someone. And...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment
Raise your hand if Schoolhouse Rock is the reason you know the definition of a noun, and the preamble to the constitution. (Me!) I’m eagerly awaiting the day that one of the networks picks up the brilliant They Might Be Giants Video and runs them between shows,...