Free Apps to Showcase Students Learning in Math

Students Show their Learning

There are a lot of apps to showcase student learning.  Below is a list of free apps and sites that students can use to demonstrate their knowledge through screencasts, drawings, posters, sketches, video recordings, and audio recordings. I have also included some apps and sites that check for students understanding of the concepts being taught. A perfect way to individualize and differentiate math instruction.

Skitch

Students can create diagrams of math concepts and then label and annotate their work. They can also share their work to their camera roll and create a movie showing their knowledge of the concept being taught.

Tutorial for Skitch

Brie app smashed Geoboard with Skitch and then created an iMovie

ScreenChomp

Students can create, explain, and share demonstrations in math.  They can create videos showing the concepts they are learning.

Recordable Whiteboard 

Tutorial for ScreenChomp

Angelique's ScreenChomp on Triangles

Doceri

Doceri is an interactive whiteboard for the iPad.  It is great way to evaluate students' understanding  of math concepts.  Students share their knowledge of our district essential objectives and math concepts. They can then send their presentations to iMovie.

Tutorial for Doceri

30hands

Another great app that students can use to create and show what they know! 30Hands is a story telling app, and students can create presentations in any subject area.

30hands Resource Guide

Gavyn

Shadow Puppet Edu

Shadow Puppet is a free app that my students love to use.  It is a digital story telling app.  One way my fourth graders have been using it during math is for the tested math concepts.  They also use it to explain and give examples of our math vocabulary. 

Share Student Work

Lainey

Eme app smashed and used Geoboard with PuppetEDU

Canva

Canva is an app we have just started to use.  It has so many possibilities to use in all curricular areas.  We have been using the presentation feature of Canva.

Tutorial for Canva

Natalie saved her presentation in her camera roll and then sent it to iMovie.

Doodle Buddy

                                                                                                   Hayden's Work

Using Doodle Buddy allows students create drawings and paintings. There is variety of drawing tools, as well as a full palette to colors. Students have the ability to select a size and there is a built in sound feature. There are a variety of backgrounds for students to choose from and you can add images and backgrounds from the internet. Students can add their images to their camera roll and then create a video of the math concept that was taught. 

Introduction to Doodle Buddy

Educreations

Educreations is a recordable whiteboard where students can create lessons and explain math concepts. Students are able to create and share what they know! 

Educreations       

Geoboard

We are using Geoboard with our geometry unit.  It is great because it helps students visualize and create the concepts we are learning about.  Many students used this app when showing their knowledge of the skills being taught in our geometry unit.  

Geoboard by the Math Learning Center  

Khan Academy

It is great to use for individualized and differentiation of math instruction. My high ability students find Khan Academy very challenging. Teachers can assign students specific content to work on that ties in directly with district curriculum.  My students love to use it at home too! 

Tutorial for Khan Academy
Student Reports

Front Row

Front Row  My students use Front Row on their iPads throughout the week.  Not only does it differentiate instruction, but it ties in with our district curriculum, and is aligned with Common Core. Students can use it at home. 

Individual Student Reports

Quizlet

 This is a free and easy app to use to assess math skills.  They can review math skills and vocabulary through flashcards.  They can take a quiz or play a matching game.  Easy for teachers  to set up quizzes or reviews.  Students are engaged while they are learning. I recently upgraded to the paid version.  Tutorial on Quizlet 

Quizlet for our Geometry Unit

Kahoot

My students LOVE Kahoot and it can be used in all curricular areas.  We have used it to review for each Topic in Math and our Benchmark Tests in math.  Students simple go to Kahoot.it and type in the  game pin and the fun and learning begins.  After each question it shows what students selected as the correct answer.  You can look back at the question and answer choices to discuss the problem. It keeps students on their toes as it keeps track of the top 5 students on the screen.  Creating quizzes is easy, and you can also search for public ones.  
YouTube Tutorials for Kahoot