Apps for Learning Shapes
These apps help children learn the names and properties of 2D and 3D shapes. They also cover the concepts of symmetry and co-ordinates. Maths apps provide children with valuable practise and reinforce learning in a fun way either in the home or classroom.
Tap and Learn gives kids practice in the basic skills they need to build as a foundation for learning. They’ll match, sort, and count within the thirty different minigames using content such as numbers, shapes, and colours. The app is available on Android and iOS as a free download with nine active games. A free trial opens the app for three days; a single in-app purchase keeps it unlocked.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Baby Shapes & Colors contains fifteen minigames for preschool children to learn about sorting and arranging items by color and shape. These also include activities that introduce animals and what they eat. You can download the Bimi Boo Baby Shapes and Colors app for free on iOS and Android, with five of the fifteen games accessible. A single, one-off purchase unlocks the full fifteen games.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Makers Empire 3D is a versatile and powerful 3D creation platform. The application is rich with features and includes a simple platform that requires no advanced technical knowledge of 3D software. Create whatever you can imagine in 3D. Design solutions to real-world problems and unlock features and tools as you level up. Share your 3D designs with 1.9 million other makers. Makers Empire 3D is free to download on a trial basis with various packages available for a subscription based service. This application and is available for iOS, Android and Windows mobile devices, tablets and computers. The application is suitable for ages 7 and above and is free from in-app adverts and in-app purchases.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
My Pizza Family is designed for young children and offers emotional and social learning experiences as well as some more traditional learning activities. Players take part in the lives of Alex and Camilla as they learn and help their family in the best Pizzeria in Toon York City.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Preschool & Kindergarten Games is an interactive educational app for preschool and kindergarten children (ages 4+). The application provides 24 educational games that support all areas of the curriculum including shapes, colours, counting, puzzles, spelling, vowels and consonants and so much more. The application is free from in-app adverts and is available on the iOS platform and Android platforms. The application supports in-app purchases for further content and games. This application is a US format and supports the Common Core State Standards but is also suitable for a UK based curriculum.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
In this polar-themed app, children help Ruffy the Husky assemble his broken pictures. As they play, they learn the names of each letter, number, and a variety of shapes. Success is rewarded with a selection of fun animations.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Smart baby is an educational game for the early development of children from two years old plus. The game has six learning games for pre-schoolers with a combination of letters, numbers, shapes and colours. The app claims to develop the child’s logic, attention, memory and fine motor skills.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
RelationShapes is an application available on iOS and android platforms and is designed to develop young children’s visual-spatial reasoning and creative problem solving through open ended play. The app offers two interrelated areas of play and replay: Match It – Exploration and discovery has free reign as children manipulate abstract and figurative shape combinations to make a match – any way they choose! Picture It – Creativity and delight abound as children use their imagination to personalize their shape pictures with vivid accessories and backgrounds that add humor and context. The app is free from in-app adverts and in-app purchases.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Matific is an award winning application designed by mathematical education experts and is great for developing early-age math excellence and scientific intuition. Matific is an app as well as a website with a collection of math activities and games suitable for an age range of Reception up to Year 6. The application has numerous activities, called episodes, that cover a range of mathematical skills in a fun and rewarding way. Users need to note that they will need to create an online Matific account if they wish to benefit from the full range of activities that the Matific Student app has to offer. Matific has an extensive portfolio of hundreds of activities and worksheets that are entirely curriculum-driven. Matific is available through a browser, native iPhone and iPad apps, as well as native Android smartphone and tablets and Chrome.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Highlights Shapes app helps children learn shapes and colours through a fun and engaging way. Children are asked to follow the mysterious journey of a fox in the jungle, the sea and the outer space. The fox can only progress her journey if children solve specific puzzles by matching, sorting and categorising shapes and colours. The app becomes progressively more difficult helping children to enhance their skills and accommodate the learning needs of children with a diverse set of skills.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Shapes 3D is a great app that will help students understand geometry for Key Stage 3. With Shapes 3D Geometry, students can learn and explore different types of three dimensional solids including prisms, pyramids, Platonic solids and solids of revolution. Users can pick and choose from up to 27 unique shapes and unfold them into different net combinations. Each shape works beautifully with the option to highlight the vertices and edges of a prism or colour selected elements of a pyramid. Shapes 3D Geometry Learning is easy to navigate and uses simple gesture control to zoom and rotate shapes in any direction.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Dragon Shapes is an app that will help your child discover and improve their ability to recognise and name different geometrical shapes and develop spatial visualisation abilities. It all starts with a story about a friendly dragon that lived in a village but then got lost. With the scales he left behind you will have to build geometric shapes that will help you to rescue and return the dragon to the people. The fun activities are organised into four learning levels and are suitable for ages 6-10. Dragon Shapes is a great app to introduce and learn geometry figures and it receives a 5 star EAS Certification and the EAS Recommended Status.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Cyberchase Shape Quest is a free app from the PBS network in America and is related to one of their animated series. The series follows a group of children who help “Mother Board” protect cyber space from “The Hacker”. The game, however is only loosely related to this narrative but instead focuses on understanding of shape and angles. The app consists of three games that each cover different areas of shape and angle and is suitable for a range of abilities. The games begin at quite an easy level but progresses to some quite challenging concepts and skills. The first of the three is an engaging augmented reality game where children need to use a range of shapes to patch holes in a path. There is also a hide and seek game that tests children’s understanding of shape names and their properties. The final game could be used to look at angles but seem to have less direct educational value than the first two.
Devices: Android