I downloaded and investigated Math Tapper. The layout is simple. When you get onto the main page it has two simple selection "Letter Find" and "Multiply and Find."
"Letter Find" can be used for the low grades who are learning the difference between capitals and lower case letters. The bottom half of the screen is waffle like. Among the squares is the matching letter for the single letter at the top. As students find the matches for the letters that appear at the top of the screen, more letters fill the waffle. Eventually all of the waffle is filled. There is no feedback and there are no sounds. The students are simply finding matches until they fill the waffle.
"Multiply and Find" is quite a bit harder than "Letter Find." There will be a simple multiplication equation at the top and the student must find the answer among the waffle squares. As the student answers, the waffle squares fill up until there are no more free squares.
This app would be useful for kindergartners and possibly 1st graders who are struggling with recognizing the difference between capitals and lower case letters. The multiplication feature is good for all grades who have been working with multiplication. There is a difficulty setting 0-100 so the teacher can set the difficulty for just about any grade. Also, the teacher must set the difficulty individually for each iPad thus the teacher can tailor the difficulty to each individual student thus helping with differentiation.There is no automatic system for feedback. Students simply can show the teacher that screen either by coming up to the teacher or sending a screen shot showing that they have completed the level.
The app is free and thus for what you get I believe it is a good app for reinforcing some basic ideas the students should have learned. However, this tool would definitely not be useful for directing a study. Also, due to the lack of any feedback beyond the fact that the student completed the assignment the test does not really serve as a formative assessment.
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