Learning Patterns – Help Kids Develop Critical Thinking and Pattern Recognition Skills

“Learning Patterns – Help Kids Develop Critical Thinking and Pattern Recognition Skills” is developed by Innovative Mobile Apps. It is free to download and contains ten in-app purchases, one costing $1.99 and the other nine are $0.99 each. It is compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch and requires iOS 6.1 or later.

“This app is the gold standard if you want to help your little one
learn how to have fun while learning patterns.” Sonja – mom and teacher

Learning Patterns helps your child develop critical thinking and
mental reasoning skills thus expanding a very important part of
their mind. Plus, even adults will have fun playing with this app
at the more advanced levels. 🙂

Approved by parents, teachers, and kids the world over.

Learning Patterns is an exciting interactive game that helps
you learn how to recognize and complete patterns all with
just the touch of your finger. Pattern recognition and
completion represents an important developmental skill
for kids of all ages.

The interface is so easy to use that even a toddler will
delight in moving their first objects around the page.

The app supports two modes to learning patterns.

In the first mode, you decide the type of objects you want
to use to learn to recognize patterns such as numbers, letters,
images, etc. Once you start, the app will start with the most
basic patterns such as ABABAB and it automatically increases
the difficulty based on the users skills. The difficulty increases
in two ways. First, the patterns get increasingly difficulty.
Second, the missing tile moves from the last place to the
second place and later the last two tiles are missing.

The second mode allows you to zero in on specific patterns
and lets students master that pattern with a huge variety of
different images.

The patterns included in this app are:

ABABAB
AABBAA
ABBABB
AABAAB
AAABBB
ABCABC
ABCDAB
ABCCBA

IF there are other types of patterns you would like us to add
please let us know and we can easily get them added.

In total, the app focuses on 8 unique patterns and includes
3 levels of difficulty for each pattern like this:
ABABA?
A?ABAB
ABAB??

The app also comes with over 25 unique collections of items
to learn patterns. This way you can learn patterns by letters,
numbers, colors, shapes, dots, balloons, hats, fruits, vegetables,
animals, vehicles, etc.

The huge variety of patterns and collections means that there are
almost an infinite way of learning patterns which ensures to keep
kids excited and engaged vs. getting bored by always staring at
the same content.

Not only that, at the end of every session you automatically get a
beautiful summary to see exactly how your little one did.

HEROIC SUPPORT

Heroic Support is not just what we do. It’s really what makes us, well, us.
It’s that drive to make a difference in your life – no matter how big or small.
Really, it’s our way of life because we want you to be our customer for a lifetime
of fun and learning.

Have questions? We are here to help. Email us at support@alligatorapps.com

iPhone/iPod Link: Learning Patterns – Help Kids Develop Critical Thinking and Pattern Recognition Skills – Innovative Mobile Apps

iPad Link: Learning Patterns – Help Kids Develop Critical Thinking and Pattern Recognition Skills – Innovative Mobile Apps

My Smart Hands Baby Sign Language Dictionary LITE

“My Smart Hands Baby Sign Language Dictionary LITE” is developed by My Smart Hands. It is free to download and has no in-app purchases. It is compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch and requires iOS 6.1 or later.

Click the following link to read my review of this app on my Apps 4 Education blog: My Smart Hands Baby Sign Language Dictionary LITE.

The My Smart Hands Baby Sign Language Dictionary app comes with over 300 signs. This Lite version comes with 120 signs and has all the functionality of the original. What is unique about this app is that it is a video dictionary that not only shows you the ASL signs, but also explains how to do them or gives you great memory tips on how to remember and understand them. The full app features over 45 minutes of instructional video from ASL instructor and My Smart Hands founder Laura Berg! Try our LITE version to see how much you’ll benefit from this app when teaching your baby sign language.

This app was created by My Smart Hands (www.mysmarthands.com), an international baby sign language program with over 150 instructors in over 10 countries, under the direction of its founder Laura Berg. Laura has a BA in child studies, an M.Ed and a certificate in ASL and Deaf Studies. She is passionate about education and signing and has brought that passion to My Smart Hands.

Keep track of the signs you want to work on in your own favorites list, and arrange those signs in any order you like. We’ve included categories so you can quickly and easily find words that are related, like “food,” “animals” and “daily routines.” It comes with an easy search option, simply type in the word you are looking for and it will come up. And finally, the quiz portion will be great fun while you are learning all of the words in the MSH app. With our quiz you are able to customize the number of questions in the quiz from 3-5 (3-20 in the full version) and you can also customize the difficulty by picking from 2 or 3 answers (2 to 4 in the full version). At the end of the quiz you can check your scorecard, view the signs you missed, and even add them to your favorites to work on later!

**Please note, this free version is made so you can have a sneak peek at what the full version would be like before you buy! The full version has over 300 signs, over 45 minutes of instruction!**

iPhone/iPod Link: My Smart Hands Baby Sign Language Dictionary LITE – My Smart Hands

iPad Link: My Smart Hands Baby Sign Language Dictionary LITE – My Smart Hands