Wednesday 30 January 2013

All iDevBooks Multiplication Apps. Information and a Giveaway




Today our Developer of the Week - iDevbooks are featuring their very cool multiplication apps. I have tried a few of these apps with my children with excellent results. We also have a giveaway for Long Multiplication so don't forget to enter while you are here...


Long Multiplication

By Esa Helttula





This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • $3.99
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Nov 10, 2012
  • Version: 2.4
  • Size: 1.1 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Esa Helttula
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description

The Long Multiplication math app allows the user to solve a long multiplication problem step by step and animates all the steps. In the steps the user will multiply or add. The correct answer will fly to the right place. If the user presses the wrong button the answer will appear above the keyboard but it will not move.

Features:

-The multiplicand can have up to 5 digits
-The multiplier can have 1 or 2 digits
-You can set your own problems
-The current operation for each column can be hidden
-The operands for the current operation can be highlighted
-Regrouping above or below the equations
-Three different themes
- Native interfaces for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad 


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Visual Multiplication Table

By Esa Helttula




  • $3.99
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Mar 27, 2012
  • Version: 2.0
  • Size: 3.4 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Esa Helttula
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

Description

Explore and learn the multiplication table in a visual way. Wired.com: "I highly recommend it for any kid who is learning their multiplication tables".

Four different ways to study the multiplication table:

- Table: Explore the multiplication tables.
- Groups: See the multiplications as visualizations.
- Multiples: See how each number has an unlimited number of multiples.
- Solve: Scramble and solve the multiplication table.

Highlighted by Apple in US Education "New & Noteworthy" and "Staff Favorites" lists.

Lattice Multiplication

By Esa Helttula


This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • $3.99
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Oct 05, 2012
  • Version: 2.2
  • Size: 1.4 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Esa Helttula
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description

This app can be used to teach and study the ancient lattice multiplication method. Solving lattice multiplication problems is also excellent times tables practice. The app is very easy to use and it has an intuitive interface with customizable colors and other settings. The user can solve custom and random multiplication problems with small and large numbers.

Reviewed by Wired.com:

"This was one form of multiplication that I’d never done before, but the app taught me very clearly. It makes multiplying large numbers easier, and allows you to see it all visually"

Partial Products Multiplication

By Esa Helttula



This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • $3.99
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Oct 09, 2012
  • Version: 2.2
  • Size: 1.6 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Esa Helttula
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description

This math app can be used to teach and study the partial products multiplication method. The app is easy to use and it has an intuitive interactive interface with customizable colors and other settings.

Endorsed by teachers

R. Zeni, Ecole Sandy Hill Elementary, Abbotsford, BC, Canada:

"The math apps by Esa Helttula allow students to practice and reinforce the specific computation strategies taught in class, with as much or as little scaffolding as necessary. They also provide individualized feedback to each student, with an immediacy that is not always possible through pencil and paper practice. Being able to adjust the level of difficulty to suit their needs is also very motivating for the students. I am so glad to have come across this great educational tool!" 

Grid Multiplication

By Esa Helttula


This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • $3.99
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Oct 15, 2012
  • Version: 2.1
  • Size: 1.6 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Esa Helttula
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description

This math app can be used to teach and study the grid multiplication method. The app is easy to use and it has an intuitive interactive interface with customizable colors and other settings.

The grid multiplication app is the latest app in the set of 17 math apps that was reviewed by Wired.com: “A Set of Excellent iPhone Math Apps for the Older Child”.
The Grid Multiplication Method

The grid multiplication method is a two-step process. In the example 39 x 24 the numbers are first broken up into 30 + 9 and 20 + 4, and written on a grid. Multiplying the row and column headers then solves each cell of the grid. Eventually the partial products 600, 180, 120, and 36 are added together.

The App is Easy to Use

The numbers are aligned automatically so that the user can concentrate on solving the operations for each column.

After you solve the operation for each partial product the correct answer will fly to the right place. If you press the wrong button the answer will appear above the keyboard but it will not move. 

Ancient Egyptian Multiplication

By Esa Helttula


This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • $3.99
  • Category: Education
  • Released: Dec 22, 2011
  • Version: 1.0
  • Size: 0.6 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Esa Helttula
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

Description

This app can be used to teach and study the ancient Egyptian multiplication method.

The Ancient Egyptian Multiplication Method

Ancient Egyptians were able to multiply any two numbers by using just the ability to multiply by 2, and to add.
Settings and features:

- The multiplicand can have up to 1 -¬ 2 digits
- The multiplier can have 1 - 2 digits
- Custom and random problems
- The current operation for each step can be hidden
- The operands for the current operation can be highlighted
- There are 3 different themes
- The speed of the animations can be set
- Different interface on iPhone and iPad
- Works in portrait and landscape orientation on the iPad

Russian Multiplication

By Esa Helttula


This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • $3.99
  • Category: Education
  • Released: Jan 08, 2013
  • Version: 1.0
  • Size: 1.5 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Esa Helttula
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description

This math app can be used to teach and study the Russian multiplication method. The user can solve random or custom multiplication problems. The number of digits in the numbers can be set.

The Russian multiplication method is also called the Russian peasant multiplication or the Ethiopian multiplication method.

The Russian multiplication method

In this method is the the only multiplication facts we need to know are how to double and how to take half of a number. The method has been used by Russian peasants into the 20th century. It has also been used in ancient Ethiopia.

Features and settings:

-Problems can be random or custom
-The current operation for each column can be hidden
-The operands of the current operation can be highlighted
-Colors of the interface can be changed
-The speed of the animations can be set
-Different interface on iPhone and iPad
-Works in portrait and landscape orientation on the iPad 
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