iTooch Elementary School
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Looking for a "curriculum in an app?" iTooch Elementary covers the official Math, Science and Language Arts curricula for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders in France. Each app (called a "title") is sold as an in-app sale, contains "40-50 chapters" and includes "1000-2000 activities." I tried the first level and found it hard to get started. You have to create a student account, and then download a free trial of one of the titles. It was hard to know if the download was free, a free trial, or we were being charged $4.99. The presentation to be very much like a typical school test that has been nicely constructed although it was easy to find some sloppy problem construction. Take, for example, the photo of a jet flying with trees in the background, along with the caption "the jet is flying at 36,495 feet." It is easy to toggle between practice mode and test mode. Content include 10 titles that can be tested for free before being purchased for $4.99 (Grade 3: Math, Language Arts, Science; Grade 4: Math, Language Arts, Science; Grade 5: Math, Language Arts, Science). Each contains 40-60 chapters per title with lessons, examples, and figures and 1,500-4,500 questions per title with clues, detailed explanations and images. Features include Apple Game Center integration with 35 achievements to unlock, an embedded calculator, a virtual blackboard and a lesson summary attached to each chapter. This concept is certainly promising.
iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
Teaches: math, reading, science, language, fractions, money