This is a great tool for independent practice and assessment of math concepts taught in the classroom. You can set up a profile for each student, then create a syllabus of the content you want to assess for that student. It would be a great tool for individual practice or one-on-one instruction or interventions. With the reporting capabilities, you can even customize each child's profile to email progress reports to the parent (or to yourself) weekly.
Continue readingSplash Math Kindergarten gets kids practicing early math skills such as counting, comparing, adding, and subtracting with interactive practice problems. Kids touch counters on the screen as they would manipulatives for counting or arithmetic, and they hear the numbers counted aloud as well, reinforcing the counting sequence. Kids will move from working with pictures and images to working with numbers and operators as they develop their math skills and learn the language of math.
Each time they complete 10 problems, kids are rewarded with a wild animal or tree to place on a rotating Earth. They can learn more about that tree or animal and make it dance and move. Questions get progressively more challenging, and teachers can customize content and difficulty levels as well as see reports of progress and set daily practice goals.
Kindergartners will enjoy the hippo guide who encourages them when they get correct answers and offers a little guidance when they answer incorrectly on the first try. The subtitle of the app, "Fun Educational Worksheets for Counting Numbers, Addition and Subtraction," is accurate in that kids will find the work (and the reward of adding to their jungle world) fun. However, these aren't anything like traditional worksheets. Each question is on its own screen and is interactive. Kids can touch and hear numbers counted and identified. They are worksheets in the sense that there's no instruction; the app is best used as an assessment tool. The content is rich and fully aligned with Common Core Standards for kindergarten math. The quality and rigor of the questions, the depth and breadth of the curriculum covered, and the customization and reporting make this app well worth the somewhat high price tag.