What we love…
Lessons are clear, well-paced and supported by many interactive examples and adaptive tests. Progress reports from the test results help you target topics that need attention.
What we’d love to see…
Animation to show the passage of time in relation to a day’s activities.
Summary
This is an app that you should check out first if you are looking for a time teaching app. Suitable for total beginners and children with special needs.
Our Rating
Tell Time – Interactive elementary app to learn telling time by StudyPad, Inc. is the most detailed and complete time teaching app that I’ve come across. It uses a combination of structured lessons, examples and tests to help you teach the abstract concept of telling time confidently.
Lessons are taught progressively in 8 topics – The Clocks (analog and digital), Time to the Hour, Half hour, Quarter hour, Time to 5 Minutes, Time to A Minute, AM and PM and Elapsed Time. These are accompanied by interactive examples and in many of the lessons, students can see as many examples as they wish. At the end of the topical lessons, you can either let the student read the lessons again or take the topical tests. The tests take the form of multiple-choice questions or time setting/matching tasks. When a wrong answer is chosen, the app will take the opportunity to demonstrate how to obtain the right answer and move on to the next question. All the lessons, examples and tests are supported by text which are read out.
While most other time learning apps go straight into a practice or quiz mode and a handful teach by getting the students to learn by manipulating the clock hands, Tell Time teaches one concept at a time in small manageable size, everything from the parts of a clock and the significance of each part to the advanced concept of elapsed time. The same scaffolding instruction can also be seen in the adaptive tests where questions are generated according to the student’s levels of understanding as reflected in the test results.
What both teachers and parents will appreciate is the progress reports found in the reports section and the optional weekly email subscriptions that show the student’s activity on the app and his progress for the week in comparison to the overall. In the Setting page, you can also opt to turn off the background music and/or sound effects if you find these distracting. What students will like is the ability to personalize the avatar by choosing accessories for it. They have to answer three consecutive test questions correctly for every coin they need to buy accessories for the avatar’s eye, head, neck and feet.
Wish list:-
1) Multiple student profiles, regardless whether the app is used by a parent or teacher.
2) A repeat button for the lesson or test question to be read out again and the ability to repeat lessons that have been completed directly from the main menu for a quick revision.
3) Animation to show the passage of time and what AM and PM means in relation to a day’s activities.
4) A live clock that gives students a feel of how long are the different units of time taught in the lessons e.g. a minute and 5 minutes.
Tell Time is a well designed app for teaching and practicing the essential skill of time telling. It allows you to teach the various aspect of telling time at a pace that is just right for your child/student with clear structured lessons, interactive examples and adaptive tests. If you are looking for an app to teach how to tell time, I recommend that you check out Tell Time first.
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Tell Time - Interactive elementary app to learn telling time
by StudyPad, Inc.
Category: Education, Educational, Kids, Games Requirements: Compatible with iPadFourthGen, iPad 3G, iPad WiFi, iPad 2 3G, iPadMini, iPadMini4G, iPadThirdGen4G, iPadThirdGen, iPadFourthGen4G, iPad 2 WiFI Size: 51.15 MB |
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Telling Time - Fun learn to tell time game [Free]
by StudyPad, Inc.
Category: Education, Games, Educational, Kids Requirements: Compatible with iPadThirdGen, iPadMini4G, iPad 2 3G, iPadFourthGen, iPadThirdGen4G, iPad WiFi, iPadFourthGen4G, iPadMini, iPad 2 WiFI, iPad 3G Size: 51.96 MB |
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I would love it if the voice in the app was not so robotic. When voice is used to teach children, it should be more realistic because not only is it much easier to understand, but also hold their attention much better.
I agree with the robotic voice. It was very distracting for an otherwise great app. It would be nice if you could skip through the tutorials as some kids can read it faster than the voice reads it and you have to wait until it is done reading it to click on the next button. Most of my third grade students already know how to tell time and I was hoping that they could skip through to elapsed time since that’s what they need help with. It appears that they will need to go through all the levels first to reach that point. I really couldn’t preview the elapsed time section, but am hoping the app would actually have elapsed time story problems that are at a third grade level. I can see this as a fantastic teaching tool for first and second graders or older kids who need extra help.
We had a bit of trouble concentrating with the voice, but otherwise a very useful app
Nichole is not a fan of robotic voices either, but she thought the progression would help struggling students. Like others had mentioned, she would prefer being able to turn off the voice.
i so need this for my daughter!
opps, hit post only previous comment too soon (sorry multi-tasking) – I do so need this for my daughter but the robotic voice wasn’t loved here either. She will be in K next year so this app is perfect for her level (which is more of a 1st grade on most everything)
I hate to say it but the voice is the only thing I could really complain about other than that it looks like a nice app.
Love the concept and the app but it needs to have a human voice for sure! I would only give it 3 stars based on the computer type voice
Hi! Throwing my name in the hat! Thanks!
Sorry I forgot my comment from above post. The voice change would be nice.
Great concept, I have to agree that the voice is a little off putting, but I’m a fan!
A professional narrator would be a nice touch.
Just a different voice
I hope the developer hears the comments about a human voice!
Hello,
I am Mithun from StudyPad.
Thanks Grace for review our app and also thanks to everyone for participating in the giveaway.
Our development team is already working on a better voice and will be available soon :)
Also we working on other features as suggested in the review.
Feel free to let us know more suggestions/improvements.
Thanks!
Mithun
Haven’t tried it yet, but always looking for apps to help kids learn time.
Definite use of a more friendly voice.
A voice with expression would be good, but I do like the app!
We would like to see a less robotic voice.