A Sample of Apps for Teaching Mathematics

Geometry apps

Price Name Icon Description

Euclid is a game in which you start with primitive tools and learn to do increasingly $0.99 Euclid difficult constructions: bisectors, duplicators, regular polygons, lunes, etc. Solving puzzles unlocks tools for future constructions. Geometry construction and exploration app Free Sketchometry designed for gestures.

Geometry Geometry Designer allows you to construct and $2.99 Designer measure geometric figures.

Construct shapes in a rectangular coordinate system. Measure length, angles, area, Free GeometryPad perimeter, intersections, distance between points.

The paid version includes parallel, perpendicular and tangent lines; midpoint; $5.99 GeometryPad+ persistent snapping; and persistent measurement windows. Sketchpad Explorer app allows you to interact with any document created in Geometer’s Sketchpad Free Sketchpad, but without access to construction Explorer tools and menus. Create your own sketches and students can explore them on the iPad. Easily manipulate the 7 tangram pieces to fit Free Tangram XL into a variety of different puzzles. Isosceles: Construct in Classical and Cartesian modes and Free Geometry add text notations to sketches. Sketchpad Isosceles +: Paid version includes isometric mode and $2.99 Geometry allows you to create and manage more than Sketchpad two sketches.

Compiled by NCSU Noyce and PTMT teams Last updated: 5/27/14 Rotate, fold, and unfold 63 different 3D solids. $0.99 Unfold Can animate or control with pinch and zoom gestures. Players move puzzle pieces to a goal by applying geometric transformations: translation, reflection, dilation, and rotation. $0.99 Flexigons Widgets can manipulate shapes either visually or numerically, giving both left and right brained thinkers a way to play. Build a cross-section of each available polyhedra by your defined plane (Defined by three points (taps) on polyhedron faces). The application supports regular polyhedra $0.99 iCross (Platonic solids), Pyramids, Prisms, Anti-prisms and Archimedean solids and duals. Polyhedrons are displayed in 3D representation, which allows you to rotate it in any direction.

Data Analysis & Probability apps

Data Analysis is a general purpose app for Free Data Analysis plotting and analyzing data formulated as x,y pairs. View and explore JMP data tables (in .jmp JMP Graph format) on iPad. Can download some data sets Free Builder directly from their website. Drag variables to graph. Share via email, dropbox, etc. Tableau Connect to Tableau server and create a variety of Free Mobile unique visualizations. Statistics Visualizer for iPad (StatViz) is a comprehensive statistical data analysis tool for Statistics Free professionals and researchers. Includes dynamic Visualizer graphs and statistic calculations with explanations. An electronic laboratory for exploring probability. Flip a coin, spin a spinner, roll a die $0.99 ChanceLab from one to thousands of times, and examine results in a table, bar chart, pie chart, or line graph.

Compiled by NCSU Noyce and PTMT teams Last updated: 5/27/14 Includes six probability devices: dice, coin, Free Undecided spinner, straw pull, random number generator, and rock, paper, scissors.

Algebra apps

Price Name Icon Description Easy to use graphing calculator, with 2D Free QuickGraph and 3D graphing. Advanced features available for $1.99.

Paid version includes implicit functions and $1.99 QuickGraph+ tracing capability. Wolfram|Alpha uses its vast collection of Wolfram $2.99 algorithms and data to compute answers Alpha and generate reports for you. The most downloaded graphing calculator Graphing $1.99 for the iPhone/iPod is now available for the Calculator HD iPad. Create functions with parameters to $0.99 Math Flyer explore effects of changing parameters. Change values in a linear equation and dynamically update the graph. Compare Free Slope Slider multiple lines graphically and use the "trace" feature to see the whole family of lines generated by changing a parameter.

Drag, tap, swipe to solve equations and $3.99 Algebra Touch simplify expressions.

$1.99 TouchyMath Tap and drag to solve equations.

Solve math problems using dragging, $4.99 Mathination pinching, squeezing. $29.99 TI-Nspire Import images from the iPad camera or photo library and overlay graphs and equations. Observe how equations change when you touch, grab and interact with shapes, graphs and objects on the screen. Graph functions, inequalities, implicit

Compiled by NCSU Noyce and PTMT teams Last updated: 5/27/14 functions, conic sections, scatter plots, statistical plots and regression models, 3D graphs, parametric, polar and differential equations.

$29.99 TI-Nspire CAS Includes CAS.

Game that introduces algebraic rules progressively through different levels. Free version has limited levels. Focus on $5.99 DragonBox+ understanding the equals sign, isolating variables, and manipulating basic equations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Powerful hand-writing recognition for Free FluidMathFree solving and graphing equations and functions. Hand-drawing recognition for lines, parabolas, and ellipses. Can dynamically Free Sketch2Graph adjust graphs and see what happens to equation.

MyScript Calculator that uses hand-writing Free Calculator recognition.

Graphbook is a collection of interactive 3D Free Graphbook graphing examples from MathStudio.

MathStudio is the most comprehensive $19.99 MathStudio graphing calculator available for iPhone and iPad.

Measurement and Utility Apps

Price Name Icon Description GPS logger (tracker), displays real-time data, elevation and speed charts, log history and Free TmwMobile statistics. Follow your workout live on a map with automatic panning.

Compiled by NCSU Noyce and PTMT teams Last updated: 5/27/14 Take a video of an object in motion, mark its position frame by frame, and set up the scale using a known distance. Video Physics then Vernier Video $4.99 draws trajectory, position, and velocity graphs Physics for the object. You can take your own videos with an iPad 2 and analyze immediately or import videos to analyze on an iPad1. MultiMeasure application allows iPhone and iPad users to create a blue print of very accurate Multimeasure Free measurements using photos, by providing one Free reference measurement. You can update to a more advanced version for $1.99. Take pictures of your rooms and the app measures and draws a floor plan. Get your floor Free MagicPlan plan in PDF, JPG and DXF format or publish an interactive floor plan. Use your iPad 2 or iPhone to measure angles in Angle Meter Free your world. [needs camera to do the FREE measurement “live”]

Free MeasuresLite A unit converter utility that is quick and easy.

Photo Measures allows you to save measures on Photo Free your own photos on iPhone, iPad and iPod Measures Lite Touch!

Virtual Manipulatives

Virtual Virtual fraction, decimal, percent bars and Free Manipulatives wedges.

Virtual Geoboard. Stretch bands around pegs to form line segments and polygons and make Free Geoboard discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, etc. Virtual balance and pawns that can be moved Hands-on Free around to solve equations. There are also paid Equations Lite apps that have more advanced levels.

Four activities: Play rods, Filling the cup, Free Fill the Cup Balance, and Multiply Balance

Compiled by NCSU Noyce and PTMT teams Last updated: 5/27/14 Fraction Three games involving manipulating fraction $0.99 Circles wedges.

Digital Storytelling apps

Price Name Icon Description Create iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad using a Free* Mac. Start with an Apple-designed template. (Mac Add your own text and images with drag-and- app, iBooks Author drop ease. Use Multi-Touch widgets to include not interactive photo galleries, movies, Keynote iPad) presentations, 3D objects, etc. Preview your book on your iPad. Submit your finished work to the iBookstore. Create your own iBooks right on the iPad. Read Book Creator $4.99 them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or for iPad submit them to the iBookstore.

Animoto Turn your photos into professional-quality Free Video Maker videos, complete with music and text.

General Teaching apps

Price Name Icon Description Dropbox is a free service that lets you save files across devices. After you install Dropbox Free Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your devices and even the Dropbox website. Write, talk, and record on a whiteboard. Can Free Screen Chomp import one figure from photos. Does not allow multiple pages. Write, talk, and record on a whiteboard and ShowMe share online. You can import multiple images Free Interactive from your camera roll or the web. Share via Whiteboard email or web.

Compiled by NCSU Noyce and PTMT teams Last updated: 5/27/14 Write, talk, and record on a whiteboard. You can import multiple images from your camera Free Educreations roll or the web and create multiple pages. Embed in websites or blogs or send as email. Write, talk, and record on a whiteboard. You can import multiple images from your camera Explain roll or the web and create multiple pages. $2.99 Everything Requires NO account. Most extensive capabilities in terms of importing and exporting. Can import videos. Instantly send and receive updates about your Free Twitter class. Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you. Flip Free Flipboard through your Facebook newsfeed, tweets from your Twitter timeline, photos from your Instagram feed and much more. Annotate images and documents with arrows, stamps, shapes, text, and more. Use Skitch to Free Skitch mark up a PDF, snap your screen, annotate a photo, or draw something new. Read and annotate PDF documents. Annotate $1.99 Neu.Annotate+ with drawings, highlighting text, text notes, photos and stamps. Splashtop 2 Allows for Remote control of any desktop or Remote laptop computer which is connected to the $4.99 Personal same internet signal; Computer must have Desktop – Splashtop Streamer (free) installed; can have Personal control of any computer for monthly fee. Genius Scan is a scanner in your pocket. Genius Scan – Free Quickly scan your documents on the go and PDF Scanner export them as JPEG or multi-page PDF files. Combining screencasting, desktop control, and an interactive whiteboard in one app, you’ll never have to turn your back to the class or Free Doceri audience again. Doceri does it all! You also will need to instal the Doceri Desktop for PC or MAC to remotely present your Doceri projects. More info at http://doceri.com/.

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Compiled by NCSU Noyce and PTMT teams Last updated: 5/27/14 Games

Free CubFree 3D Tetris!

Form equations on a board (similar to $0.99 Numbler scrabble).

Form sums on a board (similar to scrabble) Free Five-O-Lite that are multiples of five.

KenKen Similar to Sudoku but with mathematical Free Classic operations included.

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Compiled by NCSU Noyce and PTMT teams Last updated: 5/27/14