123 Color Video Posted: Noah, 3, Playing
edu.Mac.nation, speaking about 123 Color by KidCalc, “The layout and controls are easy to learn, the artwork is adorable, the audio is crisp and clear, and the little touches make 123 Color a must have application for any parent or grandparent of young children.” (Link to the article on edu.Mac.nation.)
Watch this video of the reviewer’s 3 year old son practicing his numbers and letters with 123 Color by KidCalc, posted on edu.Mac.nation:
Announcing the Release of 123 Color by KidCalc™
123 Color is a coloring book with a unique twist – 123 Color teaches numbers, upper and lower case letters, shapes, and colors as kids play! 123 Color not only engages and entertains children with beautiful artwork, fun sound effects, rich music and a challenge to paint a picture, but it also teaches with the help of clear and crisp voice-overs in English, Spanish, or even English and Spanish together, spoken by male and female adult speakers speaking in their native language!
123 Color is brought to you by the creator of KidCalc 7-in-1 Math Fun, the top selling math learning game which has been featured on Apple’s What’s Hot list and Apple’s list of Apps for Valentines Day, and which is currently being feature on Apple’s list of Apps for Kids.
KidCalc’s developer, Steve Glinberg, has created another app that like KidCalc perfectly balances entertainment value to capture and hold kids’ attention with educational value. 123 Color excites and engages kids, it makes learning fun and easy, and it enables parents to feel great about the games their children want to play.
123 Color is a fantastic companion app to KidCalc 7-in-1 Math Fun. 123 Color is jam packed with features and teaches the following skills:
- Number recognition by sight and sound
- Upper and lower case letter recognition by sight and sound
- Optionally teaches Spanish
- Creative expression, a mode where any color can be used to fill any segment of a drawing
Additional features include:
- Currently 32 pages of engaging and colorful drawings
- Select 7 or 30 color pallet (7 for young children)
- Select English, Spanish, or English & Spanish voice-overs
- If English and Spanish are selected, you choose which language is spoken first
- 23 sound effects
- 17 songs included
- Songs and sound effects can be enabled or disabled (individually or as a whole)
- Adult male and female voice-overs speaking numbers and letters can be enabled or disabled
- Save pictures to camera roll
- Email pictures to friends and family
Songs include:
- Clementine
- London Bridges
- Mary Had A Little Lamb
- Oh Susanna
- Three Blind Mice
- I’ve Been Working On The Railroad
- And many more
123 Color is also a powerful tool for introducing children to Spanish (or English) as a foreign language.
Pricing and Availability:
123 Color by KidCalc 1.1 is on sale now for $.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.
Reviewers:
Reviewers, please email me (KidCalc [at] glinberg.com) about obtaining a review copy.
KidCalc Valentines Math Fun 1.11 Released – Adding ‘Math Flash Card Challenge’ Learning Activity!
Announcing the release of KidCalc Valentines Math Fun 1.11. The eleventh update to this popular math app adds still one more learning activity, Math Flash Cards Challenge, which challenges users to solve 10, 25, 50 or even 100 math problems. The addition of Math Flash Cards Challenge makes KidCalc now 7-apps-in-1, including counting games and flash cards, animated math operation flash cards and drills, an animated calculator, and a number tracing learning activity.
KidCalc Valentines Math Fun is currently being featured by Apple on their What’s Hot list of Apps For Valentines Day. KidCalc has been among Apple’s top 100 education apps for five straight months, and was the #1 ranked education app in October.
This Valentines Day themed version of KidCalc Math Fun includes engaging Valentines Day themed graphics, icons, and voice-overs of hearts, chocolates, diamonds, rings, and more.
Skills taught by KidCalc:
* Writing numbers
* Addition (sums 0-1000)
* Subtraction (subtractands 0-1000)
* Multiplication (products 0-1000)
* Division (dividends 0-100)
* Animatied multiplication and division lessons
* Counting 0-1000, forwards and backwards, by increments of up to 100
* Flash cards of prime, binary, and Fibonacci number sequences up to 1000
Pricing and Availability:
KidCalc 1.10 is on sale now for $.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.
Reviewers:
Reviewers, please email me (KidCalc [at] glinberg.com) about obtaining a review copy.
KidCalc Math Fun 1.10 Released – Adding Valentines Day Theme and Number Tracing!
Created with the help of public and private school teachers, as well as parents homeschooling their children, KidCalc teaches crucial math skills to children ages 3-9 years old.
KidCalc was the #1 ranked education app during October, and it just got better!
Announcing the release of KidCalc Math Fun 1.10, the tenth update to the popular animated math flash cards and learning activities app for iPhone and iPod touch. This new version of KidCalc Math Fun adds Valentines Day themed graphics and Number Tracing. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique capabilities and touch interface, KidCalc is now six apps in one, including counting games and flash cards, animated math operation flash cards and drills, an animated calculator, and a new number tracing learning activity.
Skills taught in KidCalc 1.10:
* Writing numbers
* Addition (sums 0-1000)
* Subtraction (subtractands 0-1000)
* Multiplication (products 0-1000)
* Division (dividends 0-100)
* Animatied multiplication and division lessons
* Counting 0-1000, forwards and backwards, by increments of up to 100
* Flash cards of prime, binary, and Fibonacci number sequences up to 1000
Pricing and Availability:
KidCalc 1.10 is on sale now for $.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.
Reviewers:
Reviewers, please email me (KidCalc [at] glinberg.com) about obtaining a review copy.
iTunes Gift Card Giveaway – Extended!
KidCalc teaches number recognition, counting and math to pre-schoolers, kindergarteners and elementary school aged children using engaging flash cards, math puzzles and number games.
Unlike similar apps, KidCalc has animated addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division lessons embedded in its puzzles and games.
In celebration of the release of KidCalc 1.8, I will be giving away one $20 iTunes Gift Card to a lucky winner every day until Christmas every Sunday with no end in sight!
To Participate:
- Follow @KidCalc on twitter
- Re-tweet the following text: Celebrate 123 Color becoming the #1 edu app with me! Follow @KidCalc, RT 2 #win http://123ColorApp.com #giveaway #iphone #ipad
The Fine Print:
- No purchase necessary to enter.
- Repeat entries welcome. Up to ten (10) entries per twitter user, per day, will be counted, thereby increasing your chance of winning 10-fold. Repeat tweets must be separated by at least 30 minutes. Multiple tweets within 30 minutes will be counted as a single entry.
- Winners will be selected randomly through http://random.org.
- Entries that do not follow all of the entry requirements will not be considered.
- Open to participants in the US and Canada 18 years and older.
- One winner selected nightly at 11:59 PM Central Standard Time now through Dec 25, 2009.
- Winner will be notified on Twitter by DM (Direct Message) and Twitter mention within 24 hours after the contest ends.
- Winner must claim the prize within 24 hours of being notified, or another winner will be chosen.
- I reserve the right to modify or terminate this contest without prior notice to participants.
- Gift card will be awarded via email, as an iTunes Store Gift Card redemption code. To redeem this code, go to the iTunes Store, click the Redeem link on the store’s front page, and follow the instructions presented. A credit will be applied to your iTunes account in the amount of the gift card.
KidCalc 1.8 Released – Adds Animated Multiplication & Division Lessons!
Voice Flash Cards Now Count and Speak Up To 1000!
Created with the help of public and private school teachers, as well as parents homeschooling their children, KidCalc teaches crucial math skills to children ages 3-9 years old.
KidCalc was the #1 ranked education app during October, and it just got better!
KidCalc 1.8 has been released adding popularly requested multiplication and division drills. However, that’s not all. Unlike similar apps that teach math, KidCalc includes animated multiplication and division lessons to visually illustrate and truly teach the process of multiplying and dividing quantities.
First I’ll give you the run-down of new features in KidCalc 1.8, and below that I’ll add freeze-frame screen shots of the animated multiplication and division lessons in KidCalc 1.8.
Skills taught in KidCalc 1.8:
* Addition (sums 0-1000)
* Subtraction (subtractands 0-1000)
* Multiplication (products 0-1000)
* Division (dividends 0-100)
* Animations to teach multiplication and division that are cooler than anything I’ve built in KidCalc so far
* Enhancements to the addition and subtraction animations to make them just as cool as the new animated multiplication and division lessons
* Counting 0-1000, forwards and backwards, by increments of up to 100
* Flash cards of prime, binary, and Fibonacci number sequences up to 1000
* Speed enhancements to the math puzzle game – the answer can be selected immediately after math problem is displayed, review can now be turned off
* Holiday background music for the Counting Snowflakes game (Jingle Bells, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, and Hava Nagila)
Here are screen shots of the new animated multiplication and division lessons and drills in KidCalc 1.8:
Click the image to see a close-up.
Click the image to see a close-up.
Pricing and Availability:
KidCalc 1.8 is on sale now for $.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.
Reviewers:
Reviewers, please email me (KidCalc [at] glinberg.com) about obtaining a review copy.
Additional Screen Shots of KidCalc v1.7
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- Flash Cards With Christmas Theme Selected
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- Flash Cards With Thanksgiving Theme Selected
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- Calculator and Math Puzzle With Hanukkah and Kwanzaa Themes Selected
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- New Count the Snowflakes Game
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- New Settings
Introducing version 1.7 of KidCalc – Adding Four New Holiday Themes and Two New Learning Games
Flash cards shown with Christmas theme applied.
Created with the help of public and private school teachers, as well as parents homeschooling their children, KidCalc helps teach crucial math skills to children ages 3-9 years. Version 1.7 of KidCalc adds a large number of enhancements and new features.
New holiday themes including beautiful backgrounds and adorable little icons that celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa are the first things you’ll notice. I have also added animations throughout KidCalc, with falling leaves for Thanksgiving, snowfall for Christmas, falling flowers in the Springtime theme, and shooting stars in the Outer Space theme!
The full list of new and noteworthy features includes:
- Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa themes have been added with icons for counting.
- Numeric flash cards teach counting with numbers, icons, and voice-overs for the numbers 0-100.
- Numeric flash cards include an innovative index bar at the top of the screen to give context to the number on the flash card currently being displayed.
- Numeric flash card settings include counting by 1s, 2s, 3s,… on up to counting by 25s.
- Numeric flash card settings offer the option to sort flash cards in ascending, descending, or random sequences, and to select low and high flash cards – giving parents the power to decide when to introduce zero to their children, and how high the flash card deck should go before trumpets are sounded as a reward for reaching the end.
- New age-based settings allow one-click configuration of all learning games for a given age.
- A ‘Little Genius’ mode offers numeric flash cards comprised of numbers from popular sequences such as prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, …) , binary numbers (0, 1, 2, 4, 8, …) , and Fibonacci numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, …).
- Counting Snowflakes – A new counting game with animated snowfall has been added.
- Animated snowfall, stars, leaves and flowers have been added throughout KidCalc to existing and new learning games.
KidCalc v1.7 Menu Screen
In addition to the above, I have also made enhancements based on feedback from parents and teachers including the following:
- All recordings have been replaced with clearer, higher quality and higher volume recordings.
- The Counting Puzzle can now be either 4 or 9 squares.
- The Counting Puzzle can now be set to count by 1s, 2s, 3s,… on up to counting by 25s.
- The Math Puzzle now provides settings for users to select operands to be included in math problems.
- The Math Puzzle now provides settings for users to disable the review after a problem is completed.
System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod touch 3.0 or later
Pricing and Availability:
KidCalc 1.7 is only $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.
