Cool Apps for Schools
A great site which features excellent educational apps for the primary age range, across the curriculum. The reviews can help you choose apps for home or school. Many are free too!
Dice
This is a virtual dice manipulative where you can choose dice with dots or numbers and seemly as many as you want. A useful tool especially for adding 3 single digit numbers.
Number Frames
Number Frames help students structure numbers to five, ten, twenty, and one hundred. Useful as a teaching resource on an interactive whiteboard.
Geoboard
A wonderful teaching resource for exploring shapes. Choose from three different geoboard designs and stretch out the bands to make your shapes.
Partial Product Finder
Partial Product Finder allows multiplication combinations to be represented as a rectangle, or array. Arrays up to 50 x 50 can be shown. The resource can be used to represent straightforward multiplication, as in times tables.
Pattern Shapes
Try making patterns, tessellations or pictures with shapes. Explore geometry and fractions or investigate symmetry. Great for demonstrating protractors and measuring angles in shapes.
Caterpillar Ordering
A flexible game for ordering numbers and for number sequences. Fantastic on an interactive whiteboard. Levels range from ordering and sequencing numbers to 5 up to decimals.
20 Bead Rekenrek
A great teaching tool for helping young children to understand numbers and learn strategies for addition and subtraction, doubling and halving.
Virtual Unifix
This is a manipulative which has virtual Unifix which can be snapped together. Better on desktop machines than tablets. Poor on iPad.
Spinner
Spinner is an interactive resource for generating random numbers up to 10. You can reduce the number of segments. Try this for generating equations.
