Fun Educational Apps for Kids: Reviews, Daily Deals and Giveaways

Pizza Factory - A Tasty Top Pick Game App for Kids!

Move over baking apps, the Pizza Factory has come to town.  Slice, dice, roll, and create your own custom pizzas as you move through the game board unlocking secret ingredients in this new Top Pick.  Adults and children alike will love this tasty app. Fun Educational Apps TOP PICKS

Timbuktu - An Interactive Children's Magazine App for iPad

Timbuktu bills itself as an interactive magazine for children.  With animated components and a monthly subscription, this app brings new content  that's both fun and educational to your fingertips.

Write About This: Outstanding Writing App for Teachers and Student

While it seems like a simple idea, Write About This is a top pick as an educational app because of the sheer volume of writing prompts it provides and the ease of use.  Teachers and parents alike will love this app and the instant idea generators provided by the images and prompts provided. Fun Educational Apps TOP PICKS

Yodel Oh! Math Mountain- More Fun Than Flashcards -Top Math App Review

Throw away your math flashcards, we’ve found something much better.  Not only is Yodel Oh! Math Mountain more fun than boring drills, it holds kids’ attention. Fun Educational Apps awards it a Top Pick because of the way it keeps kids, age 6-12, practicing their facts longer than flashcards ever could. Fun Educational Apps TOP PICKS On sale at $0.99/£0.69/€0.89 for a limited time!

4 Dice: Fraction Games Top Math App for Kids

After 5 Dice: Order of Operations Game - a Fun Educational Apps TOP PICK - Developer Justin Holladay  just added another top app in his math app series for middle school and upper elementary students - 4 Dice: Fraction Game - This time your kids will add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions on their own or challenge friends using the Bluetooth feature! 

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Eweclid - A Common Core Based Math Skills App for Kindergarten - Third Grade

Eweclid is a brand new app developed to give students practice with Common Core Math skills.  Students move through chapters as they master essential math skills in an engaging and fun app.

Doubting Dasha- A Story App Featuring a Brave, Young Heroine

Within the past few years, a new theme has begun to appear more frequently in children’s literature and movies.  Stories about young girl adventurers have become popular as a new generation of girls looks for role models to emulate.  Doubting Dasha is a new story app (available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch).  Fun Educational Apps awards it a Top Pick for the combination of creative storytelling, interesting characters, challenging games, and an affirming message. Fun Educational Apps TOP PICKS

10 Great Apps to Celebrate Earth Day - 22 April

Get ready to celebrate Earth Day  2013!   To help you raise your kids awareness Fun Educational Apps has selected 10 great apps to help you and your kids discover and learn how to protect our planet.

 

Top Five Math Apps for Tweens and Teens

This is the time of year when parents start to take stock of their child’s math performance over the past school year.  Maybe the grade has slipped from a B- to a C- or a C+ to a D, or maybe the student is just not very confident in math.  Whatever the reason, the App Store offers a wide variety of math apps geared toward older students.   Fun Educational Apps has reviewed many of these apps, and we have put together our Top Five Math Apps for Tweens and Teens:

 

Touchable Earth- Children Teaching Children About Themselves - App Review

With curiosity comes interest; with interest comes knowledge; with knowledge comes understanding; and with understanding comes respect.  Touchable Earth is an app that lets children from around the world share information about their countries and their lives in their own words. This is important because until we understand other people and how they live, we cannot work effectively with them to solve the world’s problems.   Fun Educational Apps awards Touchable Earth its latest Top Pick because it honors these children as voices for their cultures.  Fun Educational Apps TOP PICKS

Discover Paris: A Must Have Travel/Educational App for Kids Ages 6 to 10!

Are you planning a family trip to Paris? ... Before you go, don't forget to download Discover Paris on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch! Discover Paris - the latest app from Seven Academy - is a top educational/ travel app for kids and a must have for a visit to Paris. Very kids friendly it comes in three languages - English/ French / Spanish- and features the 12 most visited sites in Paris via a top engaging and interactive interface where kids learn about art, music and history of the “The City of Lights”!  Fun Educational Apps TOP PICKS

Mushrooms - Great Encyclopedia of Fungi - Top Reference App

Are you looking for a detailed app about mushroom? Look no further ... Mushrooms - Great Encyclopedia of Fungi for iPad, iPhone and iPod is all you need. It features a wealth of information through an impressive database of 160 different species with more than 800 photos and illustrations via a colorful, easy to use and state of the art educational app. Fun Educational Apps TOP PICKS