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Twelve apps for education

Classroom ICT
Apps are increasingly being used in the secondary classroom. Justin Smith highlights 12 curriculum-aligned apps for key stages 3 and 4.

With recent research reporting that almost 70 per cent of secondary and primary schools in the UK now use tablets for learning (according to a study commissioned by Tablets for Schools), it is no wonder that more attention is being paid to the digital content used on those tablets.

It is easy to spend hours scrolling the internet in a quest to find good-quality educational apps. In a bid to help, below are 12 of the best curriculum-aligned apps for key stages 3 and 4.

This app helps students to learn and visualise different types of 3D solids including prisms, pyramids, Platonic solids and solids of revolution. The student can also rotate the prism, highlight the vertices and edges of a prism, or colour select elements. Excellent for visual learners.

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