Math can be a difficult subject. If you struggle with math and want to improve your ability with it then you're not alone. Luckily, there are iPhone and Android apps available that can help you improve your mathematical abilities and aid you in gaining a better understanding of the subject.
Here are the best apps for improving your math.
1. Mental Math Learning Game
Mental Math Learning Game is a fun, sleek-looking app that improves your mental math abilities by turning it into a game. It gives you full control over the type of questions you get: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, or Division, with more available in the Premium version. You can also set the level of difficulty for each type of question, to keep you progressing and improving as you continually use the app.
The Statistics section provides useful data, such as the total exercises you've done, as well as your average score, which can help to paint a picture of your improvement as you use the app over a few weeks or months. You can set Reminders through the app to ensure you keep up the consistency, and the app allows multiple users in case your family or friends want to have a go but you don't want your statistics being skewed by their results.
Download: Mental Math Learning Game (Free, in-app purchases available)
2. Photomath
Photomath has a stunning and simple UI and provides you with solutions to math problems, while also offering step-by-step guidance to solving the problems for yourself. It can either be used to help if you're struggling with a particular equation or as a tool to help you improve at math.
While it doesn't allow dictation, it trumps does offer in-built database of math textbooks with solutions to all the featured problems. Simply type in the title, author, or ISBN of the particular textbook you're looking at and Photomath will bring up the solutions for it, filtered by page numbers to keep things simple.
Download: Photomath (Free, subscription available)
3. MathLearner
MathLearner is designed for kids and students, aimed at helping you to either learn or test math across a variety of mathematical subjects. There are levels that increase in difficulty to help you increase in skill rather than maintain your level of competence, and via Settings you can choose between Beginner, Average, and Expert difficulty levels.
The app also has a Statistics tab that gives you a quick summary of your Accuracy and Average Time completing tests, followed by a Breakdown that gives your total number of answered questions as well as the ones you got correct or incorrect.
While MathLearner is simpler than the other math apps featured in this list, it is perfect for helping you to gradually learn and test yourself at math, particularly your mental math ability.
Download: MathLearner (Free)
4. Impulse
While Impulse isn't math specific, it does cater towards math abilities and abilities that indirectly improve your competence with math. When you first load the app, it'll ask you the areas you wish to improve. You can select memory, mental math, and problem-solving, which are all areas that help with math.
Impulse has several tabs to help you train your brain in different ways: Workouts, Games, Puzzles, and IQ tests. You can even track your performance across all of these through each respective tab. Each workout has 10 difficulty levels to choose from, giving you a sense of purpose from the app as you navigate through tasks of varying difficulty.
Impulse is a very popular app that trains your brain across many subjects, so it is well worth using it to assist in improving your math.
Download: Impulse (Free, subscription available)
5. Sumaze!
Sumaze! is a problem-solving app that turns math into a game. It's aimed at mathematicians with a higher skill level than the other apps featured here, so give this if a try if the other apps aren't challenging enough for you.
Sumaze! has games tailored around arithmetic, numbers, logarithms, inequalities and modules, and more. There are lots of levels for each mini-game, so you'll have plenty to do on the app. Unfortunately, there are no statistics or performance breakdowns, so you'll have to track your math progress manually. You also have to get through the Arithmetic levels before being able to unlock any other areas, so it's not quite as user-controlled as it could be.
Download: Sumaze! (Free)
6. Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a very popular service that helps you to learn more about a variety of subjects, with a massively populated section for math. Its aim is to provide world-class education to anyone, anywhere. When starting the app, choose the subjects you'd like to learn about, and you'll be given courses based on those choices. Keep in mind that you can always go back and add more subjects later on.
Each course offers its materials in either written or video formats and awards you Mastery Points as you get through the material. You can also take a test based on the course materials to check your knowledge and see how much knowledge you've retained from what you learned.
There is also a Khan Academy Kids app, aimed at kids aged 2 to 8, which is a perfect app for younger family members to start getting some tuition alongside some homeschool math curriculums.
Download: Khan Academy (Free)
7. Mathway
Mathway is an extremely popular app that acts as a private tutor for math in the palm of your hand. Covering all mathematical subjects, such as algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and statistics, it provides the answers to all your mathematical questions. While it is important to be aware that having answers solved for you doesn't teach you a great deal, sometimes all you need is to see the answer to an equation or problem in order to realize how you'd work it out for next time.
The app is simple to use and responsive and makes it easy to get answers to your questions. You can take a picture of an equation, say it into your microphone, or simply type it out to get an answer almost instantly. It has an in-built dictionary to help remind you of mathematical terms, and by upgrading your account to Premium it'll give you step-by-step help with equations to help you improve. While Microsoft Edge's math solver provides a helping hand when you're on desktop, Mathway does so while you're on the move and only have your phone available.
Download: Mathway (Free, subscription available)
Improving at Math
These apps should help you improve at math and offer statistics so that you can watch your progress. Regardless of your initial math abilities, these iPhone and Android apps should be able to help you improve, while also making the learning experience a lot of fun.
