Jungle Coins
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Pros
- There are four different activities included in this app that are easy to figure out and easy to use, and tutorials are included.
- The audio and visual features are appealing to students in the recommended age range and support learning.
- The images of coins are life sized and realistic.
Considerations
- This app does not include paper bills, only coins.
- When moving the coins on the screen, they do not always go where you want to place them.
Mindprint Expert Review
Jungle Coins is an outstanding app that reinforces skills relating to counting currency such as identifying coins, counting coins, comparing amounts, and making change. Users choose a delightful jungle animal avatar to cheer on their progress as they practice selected skills on five different levels. This app can be used with students beginning to learn about money to those at more advanced levels that are learning how to make change. Students who need frequent feedback and learn best with a multi-sensory approach will benefit particularly from this app. In addition, this app supports multiple users, sends progress reports to email addresses, includes currency from numerous countries, and has a multilingual feature.
Academic Benefits
Improves academic skills
- Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
- Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
- Presents educational concepts accurately
- Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
- Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
- Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
- Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)
Fun
Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range
- Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
- Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
- Visually appealing to children in the target age range
- Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
- Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
- Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
- Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option
Easy to Use
Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range
- Has a free or trial version
- Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
- Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
- Student should be able to use independently after first use
- Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
- Multiple users can save a profile
- Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
- Can play without sound and not distract others
- Students can save work between sessions
- Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
- Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
- Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
- Overall - Easy to use
Cognitive Concerns
May not be advisable for students with the following cognitive needs
- Fine Motor Skills
- Visual Motor Speed
Manufacturer Description
* Featured by Apple in "Back to School", "What's Hot", "New & Noteworthy", "Apps for Learning Math" and "Special Education”
* Featured by the New York Times
* TOP 10 OUTSTANDING App developer --www.TeachersWithApps.com
* Selected in Technology in Education's BEST APPS of the year
* "Best app to teach coins/money" --www. TechInSpecialEd.com
* "Well done Jungle Coins!" --www.theiphoneMom.com
* "This is awesome! This is a great app. I highly suggest Jungle Coins for any kid." --www.CrazyMikesApps.com
* "A trio of stellar apps…His choice of topics couldn't be better" --www.TeachersWithApps.com
* "It is truly superb. Jungle Coins is the only app you'll ever need to teach coin math skills." --www.AppsForHomeSchooling.com
* Talking app teaches kids how to say monetary amounts in multiple languages
* Currencies include: US dollar, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar, New Zealand dollar, British pound, Euro (Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain), Swiss franc, Swedish krona, Russian ruble, Japanese yen, South African rand.
Jungle Coins is an engaging, easy to use educational app that teaches kids coin math in multiple languages. For iPad only.
Engaging
● Multi-lingual talking app
● Animal faces smile and roar in a fun jungle theme
● Unlimited fresh problems every time
● Multiple levels for beginner to advanced learners
Easy to Use
● Beautiful, easy to read graphics and life size coins
● Rearrange and flip coins
● Switch to other currencies easily within the app
● Switch languages easily within the app
Educational
● Tutorials for beginners
● Identify and compare coins
● Count coin values and calculate correct change
● Score tracks progress
● Multi-user support
● Show history of problems
United States coin images from the United States Mint
Euro coin images copyright European Central Bank
Canadian Coin Images © Royal Canadian Mint - All Rights Reserved
Images des pièces canadiennes © Monnaie royale canadienne - Tous droits réservés