2011 iLounge iPod/iPhone/iPad Buyers' Guide

100 Essential Apps
2011 Buyers’ Guide
Kids, Continued
Park Math (iPhone/iPod touch)
Any one of Duck Duck Moose’s increasingly
numerous applications could be a kids’ app of the
year winner, but the recently-released Park Math is
its best effort yet: a charmingly illustrated collection
of math-teaching activities with a park and
playground theme. Blue Bear skates from area to
area, learning simple addition, subtraction, equality,
counting, and pattern completion, leveraging the
company’s wonderful classical music and colorful
original characters for every screen. Though an
iPad-specific version has yet to be released, this
one runs well on all of the iOS devices, and delivers
superb value for the low asking price. $2
Intro To Letters
Montessorium’s letter
teaching app includes
phonics, names, and
guided tracing for one or
two letters at a time, with
nice presentation. $5
Intro To Math
Using bars, dots, and
sequences of numbers,
Montessorium’s other
app teaches counting, big
and small, and tracing;
great UI design. $5
Old MacDonald Piano
Along with a separate
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
app, Old MacDonald teaches
the lyrics and piano notes
to a rhyme while it
happily sings. $2
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Pedlar Lady
For older children, this
3-D rendered book
tells a classic story
using dramatic and
changing camera angles,
animation, and text. $5
See ‘n Say
Prepare to be amazed by
this evolved classic Fisher
Price toy, with 12 animals
that each have multiple
videos to watch after the
arrow spins around. $2