Earlier today an email appeared in my inbox regarding a press release for a couple of new educational Kindle apps designed for kids, apparently the first of their kind released for the Kindle.
The apps are from a company called Digi Ronin Games. There’s Flash Cards: Basic Math for Kids and Flash Cards: Fractions for Kids. Both sell for $2.99 each.
Here are the product descriptions and press release:
Flash Cards: Fractions helps children learn fractions, percentages, and decimals on Kindle.
Flash Cards: Fractions helps your child learn about fractions by giving them practice doing conversions from fractions to decimals and percentages, and converting from percentages and decimal values back to fractions.There are four difficulty levels designed around common fraction usage. For example, 1/2 and 1/4 conversions are in an easier level than 3/7 conversions.
There are three different modes of play you choose from depending on your confidence with the material: You can use the cards as a study guide to introduce a concept, practice with multiple-choice answers, and progress to fill in the answer directly.
To give students timely feedback, correct answers are acknowledged and incorrect answers are corrected immediately upon submitting an answer. A high score table tracks your ten highest scores to help you track your progress and improvement.
Turn your Kindle into a learning tool today!
Now kids can exercise their math skills on Kindle – anytime, anywhere.
Flash Cards: Basic Math for Kids helps your child learn basic arithmetic by giving them practice doing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. There are five difficulty levels designed around common arithmetic learning concepts that progress from single digit operations with no regrouping to double digit problems with regrouping. There are three different modes of play you choose from depending on your confidence with the material: You can use the cards as a study guide to introduce a concept, practice with multiple-choice answers, and progress to fill in the answer directly.
To give students timely feedback, correct answers are acknowledged and incorrect answers are corrected immediately upon submitting an answer. A high score table tracks your ten highest scores to help you track your progress and improvement.
Turn Kindle into a basic math learning device today!
Kids Learn Math in a Flash with New Kindle Educational Active Content from Digi Ronin Games
Flash Cards: Basic Math for Kids and Flash Cards: Fractions bring the fun and convenience of a popular, time-tested learning method to Kindle
RALEIGH, NC – March 9, 2011 – With the release this week of Flash Cards: Basic Math for Kids and Flash Cards: Fractions, the latest active content titles for Kindle, kids can brush up on their math skills anytime and anywhere. Developed by Digi Ronin Games, these children’s educational titles, the first of their kind released for Kindle, bring fun and convenience to learning math for just $2.99 each and are available for purchase now through Amazon’s Kindle Store at www.amazon.com/kindle or via www.digironingames.com.
An excellent companion for homework, everyday use, or even a long car trip, Flash Cards: Basic Math for Kids allows kids to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Flash Cards: Fractions helps children learn fractions, percentages, and decimals. The Kindle active content titles provide increasing levels of difficulty and, while both are specifically designed for kids, the whole family may find themselves eager to hone their math skills.
“We’re excited to be a part of the development of educational active content for Kindle starting with our Flash Cards: Basic Math for Kids and Flash Cards: Fractions,” said Jay Powell, Digi Ronin Games Co-Founder. “Flash cards have long been used as an effective method for learning, but Kindle takes this study tool to a new, far more convenient and organized level.”
Flash Cards: Basic Math for Kids and Flash Cards: Fractions offer three study modes. Kids can learn by using the flash cards as a study guide or refresher (flash card mode), select among multiple choice answers, or type in the correct answer. The educational titles for Kindle generate an unlimited number of cards with math questions, and feature a High Score section to track progress, as well as add a bit of extra competition among friends, classmates, and family.
“With its portability, low cost per title, and environmental friendliness, the benefits of Kindle in the education realm are almost limitless,” notes Powell. “Digi Ronin Games is proud to be an early leader in the development of educational titles designed to help kids learn.”
Kindle is one of the most preferred e-reader and with such educational apps it will be even more popular as a learning device. Thanks for teh share.