10 Math Apps to Make Your Kid a Numbers Whiz

In Mystery Math Town ($4), kids ages 6 to 12 are on a mission to help find fireflies that have been trapped in jars and hidden in houses. Players use math skills to unlock rooms and passages, earning talking portraits of the extremely colorful townspeople along the way. While the app sounds involved, at its core it is a great way to teach and reinforce arithmetic skills and algebraic thinking in older school kids.