Money Math Duel is an iPad app and Android app designed to help students learn to count currency. The app is unique in that it allows two students to use it at the same time. Students place the iPad between them and each has his or her own end of the screen to use. Students “compete” head-to-head to count money quickly and accurately. The app gives students different amounts to count so that they can’t copy each other’s work. The app also lets students adjust individual settings to change colors and default currency denominations. As David Kapuler wrote in his blog post about it, this makes it “fair” for students of different abilities to play the same game.

Applications for Education
Money Math Duel could be a good app to use in an elementary school math lesson on addition and subtraction of money.

The iPad version of Money Math Duel is currently free to download. The Android version is not free. I’ve used other apps from this developer in which the pricing was reversed and the iPad version was paid and the Android version was free. Perhaps in the future we’ll see that switch again. In the meantime, grab the free iPad app Money Math Duel.

Thanks again to David Kapuler for sharing this app. Check out his blog for other good app recommendations.