Best Math Apps for Kids

Kid Mode: Play + Learn - Basic number skills

Android, Kindle Fire

Grades PreK-3

Kid Mode: Play + Learn is an all-inclusive award-winning app designed for use by children from age 2-8. Familiar cartoon characters engage kids in games to help them learn their numbers, counting, shapes, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, place value, and telling time. Characters from PBS Kids, Disney, Thomas the Train, Teletubbies, Blues Clues and Winnie the Pooh help to keep the kids engaged and the learning fun. This app has lots of great activities for reading skills too!

Rocket Math Free - Multiple math skills

iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Grades preK-6

Take a space adventure to learn many math skills with the award-winning Rocket Math app. You design your own rocket and fly to the stars, learning about numbers, counting, money, telling time, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, 3D shapes and even a bit of algebra.

Kid Math Games - Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division

Android, Kindle Fire

Grades preK-5

The Kid Math Game app helps kids practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in an arcade-type game. Kids match equations to the correct number. You can play solo or against another child or parent. And you can choose to include negative numbers in the mix.

Hungry Fish - Addition, subtraction

iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Grades K-4

Experience life under the ocean with the Hungry Fish app by Motion Math. Practice your addition and subtraction skills by finding all the combinations of numbers that combine to equal the number on the fish. As you swallow up all the correct combinations, you get to customize your fish. There are 18 levels from the simplest addition combinations to double digit positive and negative numbers.

Let's Do the Math

Android, Kindle Fire

Grades K-5

Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with Let's Do the Math app that has the look and feel of a math worksheet. Unlike a worksheet, it's customizable for difficulty level and types of skills practiced. In addition to basic operations, there are comparisons (<,>,=) and simple word problems for which your child writes out a math sentence and solves. To customize, you select the number of problems in each problem type, range of numbers and grade level.

Peter Pig's Money Counter - Coin counting

Android, Kindle Fire

Grades K-5

In Visa's Peter Pig's Money Counter app you count and sort coins into jars to earn virtual money. Learn some facts about money while you play.

Counting Coins and Bills app - counting money

iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Grades K-5

In K12's Counting Coins and Bills app kids get lots of practice with money skills. In addition to counting money, kids make change as cashiers, and they calculate equivalent amounts, using different valued coins. The difficulty level ranges from the most basic counting up to $20 to more complex problems, making change up to $99. Students can see just the front or the fronts and backs of bills and coins.

Motion Math Zoom - Place value

iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Grades 3-5

Learn place value with the Motion Math Zoom app. Fill in the missing numbers on the zoomable and stretchable number line. There are motivating animal animations and sound effects to hold your child's attention. The free version has six levels, starting with whole number, then negatives and decimals.

Factor Samurai - Factoring, Division

iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch app

Grades 3-6

Practice factoring with the Factor Samurai app by Third Rail LLC. Your sacred duty as a samurai warrior is to cut all numbers down to their prime. Learn times tables and factoring by taking a slice at non-prime numbers.

Quick Graph - Calculus

iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Grades 10-12+

The Quick Graph app from KZ Labs is a visual graph calculator. It plots 2D and 3D mathematical expressions for calculus. Rotate, translate, enlarge and shrink your plotted diagrams. Customize colors and shading.

iFormulas - Algebra, calculus, geometry, trigonometry

iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Grades 8-12+

The iFormulas app by Brendan Winter is a good quick reference. It has over 380 formulas, definitions, laws, and properties for algebra, calculus, chemistry, geometry and trigonometry.

Free Graphing Calculator - Algebra, calculus, geometry, trigonometry

iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch

Grades 9-12+

The Free Graphing Calculator app is a scientific and graphing calculator by William Jockusch. It includes a unit converter and constants for scientific calculations. There's also a reference lookup for formulas in algebra, differential and integral calculus, geometry, trigonometry, vectors, vector calculus, and classical mechanics.

Math Ref Free - Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, probability & statistics

Android, Kindle Fire

Grades 9-12+

The Math Ref Free app, by Happy Maau Studios, has formulas for algebra, geometry, trigonometry, probability and statistics, and financial. There are 600 helpful equations and notes. The app also includes multiple examples, a quadratic equation solver and a z solver.

Looking for more free Math games?

LearningReviews lists more than 400 interactive math learning games and websites for kids. Most of those listed here are free. They are organized by topic areas which include Number operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide), fractions, decimals, percentages, geometry, measurements, pre-algebra & algebra, pre-calculus & calculus, telling time, data handling, patterns, symmetry, money & finances and business accounting.