Rad Educational Apps for Kids

Here are a few great educational apps that inspire kids of The Brigade. Some are focused on Math or Developement while others are more general. Check these out:

DragonBox (iPhone, iPad): MATH

An ingenious angle on teaching kids the mechanics of basic algebra through a simple game. By the end of the level-based progression, kids are solving real equations with the familiar x and y symbols.

Operation Math (ipad): MATH

Why solve problems on boring math worksheets when you can solve math problems in a game to save the world with Dr. Odd?

CargoBot (iPhone, iPad): DEV

This terrific game sets up a series of block-stacking challenges that kids need to program a robotic arm to complete. It provides very lightweight ‘function’ and looping abstractions on top of a few basic movement instructions. This game was built using Codea (made by the same developer).

Codea (iPad): DEV

A lua editor and runtime for building apps and games on the ipad. This is definitely for the older kid crowd and can actually be used to create native iOS apps.

Hakitzu (iPhone, iPad): DEV

This one lets kids write actual javascript code to control their robot and compete with other players. Its hampered a bit by a limited command set, slow text entry, and no single-player but updates are coming soon.

Stack the States (iPhone, iPad): EDU

Getting kids exposed to all 50 states (shapes, sizes, and facts) is the goal of this well packaged game. Kids answer fact questions to drop states on top of one another in an effort to pile them to the top. This developer has done a few similar titles like ‘Stack the Countries’ and ‘Presidents vs. Aliens’.