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Autodesk Digital STEAM – 5 iPad Games for Simple Physics Lessons

March 29, 2013 by admin

Screen Shot 2013-03-29 at 7.52.28 PM Autodesk Digital STEAM Applied Mechanics is a free iPad app that contains five simple games. The games are designed to let students experiment with five connected physics concepts. The concepts in the games are energy and work, force, power, loading, and mechanisms. In each game students control one variable to see how changing that variable affects other aspects of the equation.

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The five games that students can play are Energy & Work, Forces, Power, Loading, and Mechanisms. In Energy & Work students control how much hot air is pumped into a hot air balloon as it is pushed along by the wind. Students have to manage the rate at which fuel is burned so that the balloon doesn’t run out of hot air before the end of the game. The Forces  game has players using a catapult to lob meatballs (at least that’s what they look like to me). In the Loading game students use a crane to correctly distribute weight to waiting trucks. In Power players control the thrusters of a spaceship to navigate obstacles and safely land at a destination. And in the Mechanism game students maneuver a helicopter by controlling the ration of the gears powering the rotor.

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Autodesk Digital STEAM could be a good app for introducing elementary school students to some basic physics concepts.

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Matchmatics – Math Puzzles for Your iPad

March 1, 2013 by admin

Screen Shot 2013-03-01 at 11.23.12 AM Matchmatics is an iPad app that presents mathematics puzzles in the form of matchsticks laid out on a canvas. The challenge of Matchmatics is to move one matchstick to make an incorrect equation correct. Points are awarded based on how quickly you can correct the equation. The puzzles get progressively more difficult as you work through the app. Matchmatics has a timed mode and an un-timed mode. The full version of the app costs $0.99 USD. The free version of the app contains ten problems that you can try before upgrading to the full version.

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Filed Under: Elementary School Tagged With: addition, arithmetic, free ipad apps, ipad apps, Math apps, Mathematics, mathematics apps, Maths

4 Dice Helps Students Learn to Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide Fractions

December 11, 2012 by admin

4 Dice is an iPad app designed to help students learn to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions. The app was developed by the same people that built the popular 5 Dice app that helps students learn the order of operations.

In 4 Dice students are shown a fraction and they have to drag four dice into position to complete the arithmetic that will result in the fraction that they were shown. It’s kind of like the Jeopardy concept applied to fractions mathematics. There are five modes in 4 Dice. There are the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division modes as well as a challenge mode that randomized the problems. At any point in a series of problems students can pause and use the whiteboard to work out possible solutions to a problem.

 

4 Dice does ask for an email address, but doesn’t ask users to confirm that email address. If your students don’t have email addresses you can use the Gmail+1 trick to create dummy addresses for them that you can monitor.

4 Dice costs $0.99. This app is appropriate for elementary and middle school students.

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Filed Under: Elementary School, Middle School Tagged With: Fractions, Math, Mathematics, Maths

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