Addition Math Game
Madison, Wisconsin – Independent software developer Steve Glinberg is pleased to announce the release of KidCalc Valentines Math Fun 1.11, a Valentines Day themed version of his popular math app for iPhone and iPod touch. This new version of KidCalc includes a new learning activity, Math Flash Cards Champion, which challenges users to solve 10, 25, 50 or even 100 math problems. KidCalc is now 7-apps-in-one, including counting games and flash cards, animated math operation flash cards and drills, an animated calculator, and a number tracing learning activity.
KidCalc Valentines Math Fun is currently being featured by Apple on their What’s Hot list of Apps For Valentines Day.
Created with the help of public and private school teachers, as well as parents homeschooling their children, KidCalc helps teach crucial math skills to children ages 3-8 years. This timely Valentines Day themed version of KidCalc engages children with Valentines Day icons including hearts, diamonds, rings, pink cupcakes, chocolates, and more.
“When I saw my 2 1/2 year old daughter pick up my new iPhone and use it with absolutely no instruction, I realized that the iPhone’s touch interface, especially when combined with engaging animations and sounds, held unprecedented potential as a platform on top of which an entirely new class of teaching tools could be built,” said Steve Glinberg, KidCalc’s developer. “I decided then to build KidCalc, to teach children how to visualize the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of sets of objects. With the addition of number tracing into this new release, KidCalc has become even more fun, engaging and effective at teaching numbers and math than it already was.”
KidCalc’s puzzle games and flash card learning activities challenge children to complete a series of math problems. When a puzzle is complete children are rewarded with sounding trumpets and a full view of a picture they worked to reveal – one of 72 brightly colored still life and action photos that KidCalc includes.
KidCalc is now 7-apps-in-one, including:
* Math Flash Cards Champion (NEW)
* Number tracing
* Counting puzzle
* Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division math drills
* Animated calculator
* Animated math flash cards
* Animated counting flash cards
KidCalc’s animated flash cards feature counting from 0 to 1000 in increments of 1, 2, 3, on up to increments of 100. KidCalc’s flash cards are fully configurable, providing children a powerful tool for learning numbers and math at their own pace. Some of KidCalc’s other user selectable themes include an outer space theme with planets, martians, UFOs, and moons, as well as a sports theme with basketballs, baseballs, footballs, and hockey pucks.
Device Requirements:
* iPhone and iPod touch
* Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later
* 8.0 MB
Pricing and Availability:
KidCalc Valentines Math Fun 1.11 for iPhone and iPod touch is available on sale for $.99 (USD) in the App Store in the Education category. Review copies are available upon request.
KidCalc 1.11
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Located in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin, Steve Glinberg is an independent software developer, iPhone enthusiast, and dad who is passionate about finding simple and effective ways to teach even advanced concepts to young children. All Material and Software (C) 2010 Steve Glinberg / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, and iPod, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Prompt #27: The computer has become a most important part of everyone’s life. Most of us have difficulty imagining what it could be like to live without it. Write an essay explaining how the American family uses it for business, pleasure, and emergencies. Assume that this will be published as a part of an encyclopedia article.
Garrett E
“Oh no! The computer isn’t working. What am I going to do?” The average American family uses a computer over 2 hours a day. What would we do if computers were never invented? I don’t know. But three of the reasons people use computers today are for businesses, for emergencies, and just for pleasure.
To begin with, one of the reasons Americans use computers is for businesses. If you want a job these days, you have to know how to use a computer. In a business, computers are useful because they can store information and do almost a whole job at once. None of the people in America could do 30 multiplication facts at once and in a business something has to be able to do that and a computer can. Sometimes business managers pay more for a computer to use to do a job than they would pay a person. But there are always flaws in having only computers to remember things. One example is if you lose power, and you don’t have a generator to give you power, you wouldn’t be able to do any business. Now in a time when you don’t have power to a computer, there has to have been some type of emergency.
In addition, another reason most Americans use computers is in emergencies. As you know, normally when you need something the most, like a phone, you won’t be able to find it. So a computer is a good backup plan for an emergency. Even though computers aren’t the best in fires or robberies, they are good for a family emergency. If you want you can email someone which, unless the person you are emailing is on the computer when you click send, will normally take at least a couple of hours. In other cases, you might want to talk something over with someone live. All you have to do is get on an online chat room or a live web cam. Now the final reason most American families use a computer is the one everyone likes. So read on and find out.
Last but not least, most American families use computers for pleasure. One of the favorites is for computer games. There are many websites that have games on them, and there are also many games that come on discs. The games can be anywhere from playing hide and seek with Barney to extreme sports like skiing away from an avalanche. Another way people use computers for pleasure is for e-mailing each other. On an e-mail, you can say or talk about almost whatever you want. One more good thing about communicating by e-mail is that it’s free. One last thing people do on a computer for pleasure is read and write forums. There are fishing forums, sport forums, how to build boat forums and more. It would only take one computer to do all this and more.
In conclusion three of the reasons most American families use computers are for businesses, emergencies and pleasure. Now you have seen just a few of the reasons most Americans use computers.
Avalois T
TYPE, TYPE goes the computer keys. American families use the computer for many reasons. Some people like to play games such as kids, or check income, such as adults. There is a lot of ways to use the computer. Some people use it for emergencies, business purposes, and some just for pleasure.
To begin, people use the computer for emergencies. Why not? People may have to find where the nearest hospital is. Say for instance, a girl is choking. The family doesn’t have a phone, so they can’t call 911. All they have is a computer. They have to use the computer to know where to go to save her life. Some other emergencies is that somebody could have forgotten a number and do not have a phonebook to look it up. They would go on the computer and look it up.
Secondly, people also use the computer for business purposes. Some people work as accountants at banks where they need the computer. They have to put in the exact amount of money somebody is withdrawing or depositing. Other people use the computer to check income. If they are the manager of a store they have to use the computer to see how much they are earning on a certain product.
Finally, people just use the computer for pleasure. About 90% of kids go on the computer to have fun. Kids mostly play games, some watch movies, videos, or check their mail. When kids get grounded they can only use the computer for homework. The least popular thing to do on the computer is check mail. Some kids are too young for them to have an email address. They should wait until they are about 6 years old to get one and know how to use a computer.
Many American families use the computer for emergencies, business purposes, and for pleasure. Computers are a great way of having fun and getting some information fast. That’s why everybody should use a computer.
