Math Practice Boards
By Dana Anderson,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Kids practice basic math in colorful doodles on free app.
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What’s It About?
Choose the operations (addition and subtraction and/or multiplication and division), a level (1-10), and a pen color. Problems appear either vertically or horizontally. Kids can doodle visual cues or draw answers, then they must tap the multiple choice answer. A green check appears for correct answers. The app provides the correct answers immediately if kids choose a wrong answer. Decent practice, fun doodles.
Is It Any Good?
MATH PRACTICE BOARDS can offer solid practice in basic math operations for free. That said, some kids may get frustrated if the level isn't set to their current ability, and even if it is set properly sometimes problems provided seem much more difficult than other problems on that same level. Another potential source of frustration is that if a kid answers a problem incorrectly, the app provides the right answer immediately with no option to give it another try. The best parts of this app are the colorful pens that kids can use to doodle their problem solving and answers. Younger kids can use them to write dots or other visuals to represent numbers, while older kids can draw the numbers, perhaps using different colors as cues for a concept they are learning, such as the one, tens, hundreds, and thousands places. For kids who like doodling, this app could encourage math practice more than other traditional type-in-the-numbers apps.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Set the level according to your kid's current math skills.
Talk to your kid about how to make educated guesses on the few aberrant problems in each level that may be beyond their current skill level.
App Details
- Device: Android
- Subjects: Math: addition, division, multiplication, subtraction
- Skills: Thinking & Reasoning: memorization, problem solving
- Pricing structure: Free
- Release date: June 27, 2012
- Category: Education
- Publisher: Math17
- Version: 1.12
- Minimum software requirements: Android 2.2 and up
- Last updated: July 13, 2020
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