App-of-the-Week: Algebra Touch
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Price: $2.99
Age Level: 12+
Description: This app is not your ordinary algebra app. Algebra Touch focuses on learning the concepts of factorization, order of operations, distribution and basic equations in a visual and interactive way. The app features algebra lessons and randomly-generated practice problems.
Why Students Love it: The graphics and visuals may not draw your student in, however this app is (secretly) a likable tool for those students who are kinesthetic and visual learners. Students can drag to rearrange, tap to simplify, and draw lines to eliminate identical terms. If a lecture doesn’t grab your student’s attention, these touch-based techniques will.
Why We Love it: This app was discovered by an ArborBridge tutor and “ooh”ed and “aah”ed by our directors. Finally an algebra app that lets students explore the concepts of algebra, without time constraints or mental math, and manipulate the numbers and variables until the answer is correct. We recommend Algebra Touch for homework help, and practicing a specific skill, and, with the option to make your own problem sets, checking the solutions to assigned problems.
