Addimal

Addimal is a fun and engaging app with addition math activities.  Addimal recently earned the Apple Design Award.

Student Engagement: 4

Second graders are engaged and choose to use this game app frequently. 

Accessibility/Relevance: 3

Students can choose count on, count all, doubles, tens or memory to solve math problems.

Capabilities/Customization: 2-3

The questions are geared towards academic ability and track each child’s progress on iPad.  When answers are correct following problems are relevant, but if answers are incorrect the problems are simplified and explained by animal characters. 

Safety: 2-3

Class login without ads and data is saved on users iPad.

Thinking Skills: 3

As students successfully solve math problems the problems are more challenging.

Elementary Evaluation Tool

	1	2	3	4	Notes:
Qualities:
Student Engagement	Avoids app	Uses app but does not make connections to prior learning.	Uses app when directed.	Highly Motivated to use the app.
Accessibility/ Relevance	Not able to use for multiple purposes	Limited availability to use across contents	Purposeful and appropriate across content areas	Engaging across all content areas
Capabilities/ Customization	No access to camera, video, microphone and other libraries.	Limited use of settings to meet student’s need.	Flexible settings to models strategies, ability to create, structure, or build	Interactive and the ability to change content settings to model strategies and ability to create and build.
Safety	No private access availability	Class Login with personal password	Individual Log in & password.	Individual Log in & password with data available within class roster
Thinking Skills	Limited use of lower order thinking skills.	Mostly lower order thinking skills to understand and remember.	Use of higher order thinking skills including evaluating, analyzing and applying.	Use of higher order thinking skills including creating, evaluating and analyzing.