Count up to Ten: Learn Numbers With Montessori
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This collection of leveled activities gives you plenty of content for your three bucks. There's counting, 1 to 1 correspondence, a numeral tracing activity and an augmented reality activity, with a cloud-based reward system designed to record progress and sync with other Seven Academy apps. Despite the confusing array of options and frequent encounters with an adult age-gate, the app is ideal for helping a child with activities that will develop "number sense." There are four collections of activities, each based around a different animal theme. A group of penguins introduces the numbers, a mole traces each numeral into the ground, a manta ray plays with the concept of quantities, and a team of elephants hold each other by the tail to form Montessori bars. There is also an Augmented Reality game where parents cut a page with printed labels (either downloaded from the Seven Academy website or emailed from the app). Rewards can be used in Seven Academy's Montessori Garden, a virtual vegetable garden located on the company’s website (https://www.sevenacademy.com/en/), that is designed to motivate and educate children, while they learn about the benefits of gardening. The app is available in 12 languages including: French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. The pedagogy comes from mathematician, Aurélien Alvarez.
$2.99, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch (iOS 6.1 or later)
Teaches: math, counting, fine motor skills, tracing, numerals (1 to 10), French
CTR Rating: 88%