I saw Tribbs Lite reviewed on the Appitic site under Multiple Intelligences, and decided to give it a try. For students who love math, this free app for the iPad is a great brain exercise. Â I am putting it in the Grades 3-12 category because, as an adult, even I found it addictive. My third graders tested it out today, and enjoyed the challenge. Â Basically, you are given a target number, and have to find three numbers that will make that target number by using any of the operations. Â The number choices are in a grid, and you have to choose numbers that are neighbors. Â You get more points the faster and more accurately you solve the puzzle.
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My Favorite Sites for Educational App Reviews
Did a child in your family get an iDevice for Christmas? Â Or, are you a teacher who is desperately trying to find appropriate educational apps for the classroom? Â It’s difficult to weed through all of the apps listed as “Educational” in the official iTunes App Store, but there are a few other resources you can use. Â Here are my top three Favorite Sites for Educational App Reviews:
#3: Â Mindleap – this site, though relatively new, allows you to choose a category or specific grade level to search.
#2: Â Famigo – specifically designed for the user to find family-oriented apps, and allows you to search in a variety of ways (free or paid, age level, highest rated, most popular, etc…)
#1:  Appitic – this site, produced by Apple Distinguished Educators, allows you to browse for apps by: Preschool, Themes, Multiple Intelligences, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Tools.  I love that it offers apps based on MI and Bloom’s, encouraging higher order thinking skills.
For my original posts on each of these sites, and some other suggestions not listed here, you can click here and here.
APPitic
The website describes its purpose best:  “APPitic is an directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.”
On this site, you can browse for apps by: Preschool, Themes, Multiple Intelligences, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Tools.
Each reviewed app of the over 1,300 gives a thorough description, and many have personal comments from the Apple Distinguished Educators who have used them in their own classroom settings.
APPitic is a good resource for teachers, especially when used along with some of the other app review sites mentioned in my Educational App Reviews post.