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Efficient learning hinges on essential skills. Use these apps and tools daily to develop key skills.

(1) Visual-Spatial Awareness, Perception, Reasoning, & Orientation

• • Play SHAKE THE STATES (iPad & iPhone)

  • Play with Tangoes (2-players race to make objects with Tangrams

  • Play with Tangram Apps.

  • Geography Games

  • Use Google Maps and Google Earth to navigate and explore.

  • Lumosity.com Games

  • Search App Store for: Tic Toc Time, Visual, Spatial, Reasoning, Compass

(2) Sequencing, Positioning, Pattern Recognition

Search app store for:

• • Visual Perception & Sound Discrimination Bundle

  • Montessori Bundle: Counting, Number Sequencing, Skip Counting, Roman Numerals, 100s Chart+

  • Number Sequencing & Skip Counting app

  • Chalk School apps: Alphabetical Order, Skip Counting, & Shapes

  • Number Sequencing game (iPad): customizable patterns, small to large numbers

  • Dice Apps: Number Dasher (put in order); Dice Math; Dice Fractions; Match Sums

  • Dominoes: Dot Pattern Recognition; Dot:# Match; Add/Subtract; Dot Sums/# Match; +-x/Bundle!

  • Learn the Decimal System / Place Value with Money

  • MathIsFun.com

  • Math Antics

(3) Auditory, Sound Discrimination, and Processing

• • Phonetic Birds - Practice distinguishing sounds: pitch, loudness, sound matching.

  • Listen Hear 1-5: Phonetic Discrimination & Numbers

  • Fast ForWord: proven remedial software for Auditory Processing Disorder & Reading. Free 4-month Trial for Schools: Fast ForWord, Reading Assistant, Build English Fast (ELL).

  • Minimal Pair Pack App

  • Phonological Processes

(4) Symbols - Recognition & Writing: Letters, Numbers, Shapes

• • Fun with Math app: Game for > < =, comparison, skip counting

  • KidsDoodle app: a fun neon backboard writing & drawing environment; records a screen movie for playback.

  • My-Blackboard app by AKRIO: with sound, colored chalk. Backgrounds: blank, math, grid, music, lines, sports.

  • Cool Kids Math Games app: Trace & Write Numbers

  • Writing app bundle: Trace & write letters, numbers, shapes, mazes, & games.

  • Math Symbols app: a game to learn common symbols for math operations

  • Math Symbols & Terms app: Basic to College Levels

  • Stop Letter Reversals w/ LetterReflex app

(5) Math Language Development

• • Read these Math Handbooks and Use these Remedial Programs

  • Math Vocabulary App bundle: Grades 1-3

  • Math Slinger app: practice the vocab of math operations (sum, difference, product, quotient...)

  • Math Vocabulary Cards K-5 (iPad)

  • Mathletics Dictionary Illustrated, animated math terms and concepts.

  • Number Prefixes: Metric, Greek, Latin, Binary (Milli to Giga)

  • Illustrated Math Language Lessons by Dyscalculia.org

  • MemBean Word Tree List: Ex. uni-, mono-, bi-, tri-, cent, , sub, multi, fact, poly.

(6) Counting & Addition

• • The Power of 2! app: play to quickly learn the sum of any number doubled.

  • Use Money to count from 1 cent to Quadrillions. Teaching Money & Place Value Chart.

  • Skip Counting by HAVOC (skip counting is multiplication)

  • Math Upgrade: musical, illustrated math lessons by grade

  • Money Counting Apps & ABCya Money

(7) Onscreen tools for doing math work in a digital environment

• • iPad with Apple Pencil support

  • OneNote with Mathematics Add-on & Ink to Shapes and Ink to Math

  • Panther MathPaper

  • ModMath is a free app to help people with dyslexia and dyscalculia do math onscreen using drag and drop.

  • Kidspiration (K-8) & Inspiration (Grades 7+): Drag & drop math manipulatives, money, mind maps, timelines.

  • NumBlox virtual rods and cube blocks for math reasoning, write on screen, drag & drop rods on graph paper.

  • Search Visual Math apps for your device.

(8) Reading (Decoding) and Spelling (Encoding)

• • Search App Store for: sight words, vowels, consonants, syllables, dyslexia, spelling

  • Spelling Phonetically w/ Simplex Spelling bundle

  • Orton-Gillingham: 80 Phonograms; 74 Phonograms by Logic of English

  • MemBean.com See associated word trees: prefixes, roots, suffixes. Nom (name) example.

Games to remediate Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, & Dysgraphia

MATH GAMES

• • The Number Race & The Number Catcher (Numeration & Basic Operations)

  • More 4 Monkey: Develop Number Sense (based on research at Johns Hopkins University)

  • KarisMath (Visual Math- basic to Algebra)

  • National Library of Virtual Math Manipulatives

  • Reflex Math (Math Fact Automaticity)

  • Learning Upgrade / Math Upgrade (Multisensory, sequenced, online math, gr. 1-8, Algebra)

READING-WRITING-SPELLING GAMES

• • Reading Upgrade: Memorable songs and video animations teach reading skills.

  • Search for Orton-Gillingham, Phonics, Dyslexia

  • Lumosity.com - Brain Training Games improve memory, attention, speed, problem solving.

DYSGRAPHIA - PENMANSHIP TOOLS

• • Search App Store for Writing, Penmanship, Tracing

  • SnapTypePro: Complete worksheets on iPad

  • Reversals for Dyslexia App

  • Doodle Write, Writey, Writing Wizard, LetterSchool, Number Workbook, Letter Cross Tracking

  • StarFall.com