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eNotebook iPad App Review

April 3, 2012

Device: iPad Cost: $4.99 Ages: High school and up I’ve been working with the eNotebook app off and on for a couple of weeks now but haven’t had the chance to write about it until now. eNotebook was developed by a math teacher, Kevin Giffhorn, for students that want the ability to take their notes right on their iPad. It has a simple integration feature into Safari and email that allows you to send files in Powerpoint, PDF, or Word format to the app, where you can take notes right on top of them.

MathBlaster Apps for the iPad

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April 2, 2012

Device: iPad/iPhone Cost: $2.99 Ages: Elementary school through early middle school This post is the start of another “App Week,” so be sure to keep checking back for a couple of more reviews as the week goes along. Last week I posted a video on YouTube about the Math Blaster iPad apps, and I wanted to get a quick post up on them here on Tech Powered Math. I took a look at two of the Math Blaster apps, HyperBlast and Zapper.

Apple and Texas Instruments to Form Alliance

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April 1, 2012

Update: Much to my surprise, this April Fools joke came true just a year after I wrote this with the release of the TI-Nspire iPad app. I’m getting word from a source at Texas Instruments that within the next 24 to 48 hours we can expect to hear an official announcement of a blockbuster alliance being formed with Texas Instruments and Apple. Both companies are going to get significant penetration into an area of the market they previously didn’t have access to.

New iPad Announcement

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March 7, 2012

The much awaited iPad 3 was announced today, but apparently it’s not called iPad 3 after all. Instead, it’s the ” new iPad.” Apple seems to want to break with the practice of incremental numbering of their iPads. I can understand the logic (do we really want to talk about the iPad 11 down the road?) but still hope there’ll be a simple way to keep the generations straight going forward.

Infographic: Apple iBooks vs. Textbooks

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February 23, 2012

For the foreseeable future, I’m planning a new segment called “Infographic Thursdays,” where I post an infographic on a topic related to math, education, technology, or some combination of the three. Today, the graphic is on Apple’s iBooks vs. traditional paper textbooks, and as you’ll see, there is some question as to the economics that Apple is claiming. Incidentally, I’ve only started looking into Apple’s iBooks. Whether it lives up to Apple’s claims of economics may be up for a debate, but at a minimum, Apple is once again leading a debate about where technology is headed.

iPhone Calculator App Giveaway

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January 24, 2012

UPDATE: The contest has ended. Twitter winners @sunian314 @hasama36 @matt1888a and @tsclausing. Facebook winner was Jacob Petefish. You will need to follow me on Twitter or friend me on Facebook to receive your prize code via private message. I recently reviewed AbleMath, a new graphing calculator for the iPhone/iPod touch. The creators of AbleMath have generously offered 10 copies of AbleMath for me to give away here at Tech Powered Math, which I am doing in this contest.

AbleMath Graphing Calculator App Review

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January 23, 2012

Device: iPhone Function: Graphing Calculator Ages: High school and up I haven’t taken a look at a graphing calculator app since my old review of the top 6 calculator apps for the iPhone. However, at the request of the developers at AbleMath, I hopped on over the App Store to see what their new AbleMath Graphing Calculator can do. What I Like About AbleMath AbleMath offers some features that I haven’t seen in other iPhone calculators.

TI-Nspire Riemann Sums

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January 17, 2012

In preparation for AP Calculus the other day, I was struggling with how to get the TI-Nspire to work Riemann sums as easily as the TI-84 does, since we typically use a program on the 84. After some time, I had come to the conclusion I’d either have to write a program myself or just accept the fact that it wouldn’t be as simple as it is with the TI-84.

Big Kid Life Fire Fighter App Review

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December 2, 2011

Devices: iPad, iPhone Topics covered: Numbers, letters, shapes, and basic spelling and arithmetic Cost: $2.99 (but free for a limited time) Ages: 4-7 Big Kid Life Fire Fighter is the second app I’ve had a chance to look at by Fingerprint Digital, a new educational app company. Previously, I looked at Fingerprint Play Maker. Big Kid Fire Fighter is a very different app, and quite a bit more complex. Like other Fingerprint apps, you have the ability to check your child’s progress via the parent center at any time, and you and your child can send voice or text messages of encouragement back and forth.

Fingerprint Play Maker App Review

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December 1, 2011

Devices: iPad Topics covered: Numbers, letters, shapes, and basic spelling and arithmetic Cost:[ $2.99 (but free for a limited time)][1] Ages: 4-8 A brand new app in the iOS Appstore that I’ve had the opportunity to take a look at over the last week is Play Maker, by Fingerprint. Fingerprint is a new player in the educational app market. They were founded former LeapFrog executive Nancy MacIntyre. Having had the chance to look at a couple of launch titles for Fingerprint, I’d have to say the thing that sets them apart from other apps I’ve looked at is the level of customization and interaction for parents.

eNotebook iPad App Review

MathBlaster Apps for the iPad

Apple and Texas Instruments to Form Alliance

New iPad Announcement

Infographic: Apple iBooks vs. Textbooks

iPhone Calculator App Giveaway

AbleMath Graphing Calculator App Review

TI-Nspire Riemann Sums

Big Kid Life Fire Fighter App Review

Fingerprint Play Maker App Review

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