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Elementary Science 7-9 – I Know that!

  • July 12, 2010 7:16 am

Elementary Science 7-9 from Aimer Media is a great learning tool for your 2nd to 3rd grader. The questions are well done as is the gameplay which we will see more of in future reviews of the company’s apps. You can see that my 9 year old is having a pretty easy time with the questions, but she has left 3rd grade and is entering 4th, so still age appropriate. She has been a bit ill, but thought that she could play the game for a good 30 minutes at a time and would probably play it for 10 hours total – that is a lot!

After we shot a few videos she was left with my phone (3G in this case) and played for a good 20 minutes then asked if this was on “her phone too?” It is.

I give this one a 5 for learning, 4 for attention and a 3 for fun. As you can see from the reviews not all apps can be fun and learning. So far this score of 12 is really good. Well worth the purchase price.

The developer has different versions for the US as well as the rest of the world. We have another set of apps to review my Aimer Media and think they are doing an outstanding job! It is a great thing to build a learning application and provide it at a reasonable cost as a majority of our apps on this site have done. Thanks guys!

Spelling Toy by nKlein Software

  • March 22, 2010 7:47 am

Patrick Klein emailed me a month ago about his new app: iPhone Spelling Toy. I took a while to review it for two reasons: 1. I am very busy and my 9 year old was not available to test it out appropriately. 2. It seems to use a video for a portion of the display and I cannot record that :( So I am left using the programmers (authors?) video. Pretty good job anyway.

My 9 year old really liked the app. She spent a lot of time using it and thought it was rather fun/interesting. Some of the words are at my best guess made for 2nd grade and up. My daughter is in 3rd grade and she had no problem with the words, but all kids are different.

The app is well written, the graphics are well done and the options are useful.

Overall I give it a thumbs up, but here is the real breakdown:
Learning: 5/5
Fun: 3/5
Attention Capture: 4/5

Total: 12/15.

Link to the developers website: http://nklein.com/2010/02/spelling-toy-iphone-app-released/