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Algebra Touch
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- iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Windows app
- $2.99
- Education
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that Algebra Touch is an educational app that teaches and allows practice of procedural algebraic concepts. Kids learn to drag and rearrange single-variable polynomials so that like terms are together for easier adding. Then kids can tap the operator between the terms to compute answers. Terms can be factored or combined until the variable is isolated. Kids (or parents) can also create their own problems to rearrange and solve. The app saves the problems that were created for later use. Kids can contact others via email or Facebook to get help with problems. There's not much information in the privacy policy, which states that the app collects nonpersonal information.
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What's it about?
In ALGEBRA TOUCH, kids choose a lesson, and then a basic problem related to that lesson appears with a written explanation. Along with the explanation comes an instruction ("Tap the +") telling kids what to do next to make the answer appear. Practice goes beyond the expectation that kids will enter the final answer. Instead, kids tap the steps involved in solving the equation, and the app gives the answer. Tap incorrectly, and the image simply wiggles. Choose correctly, and the next step appears until kids arrive at the final answer.
Is it any good?
For procedural understanding of algebraic skills, this tool is a hit, but it doesn't teach concepts. It allows kids to manipulate and solve single-variable algebraic equations and terms in a very creative way. Kids drag their finger on the screen to move terms from one side of the equation to the other, or they can tap to factor or solve. Tapping will compute all the arithmetic automatically, except for division, since the app requires fractions to be fully reduced before the answer is correct. Students who want extra practice or a new way to approach procedures can find both in Algebra Touch, a unique supplement to basic algebra education.
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Families can talk about how technology can help with learning. Which other apps might be helpful?
For kids who seem to be ahead of the math curve in school, offer Algebra Touch as a way to allow them to dig deeper into the concepts and challenge themselves in a fun way.
Encourage kids struggling with certain areas of algebra to choose those specific topics on this app to approach the problems in a different way.
App details
- Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Windows app
- Subjects: Math: algebra, equations, fractions, functions
- Skills: Thinking & Reasoning: applying information, memorization, problem solving
- Price: $2.99
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Release date: December 11, 2015
- Category: Education
- Size: 7.60 MB
- Publisher: Regular Berry
- Version: 2.2.11
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 7.1 or later
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