What's New

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- minor bug fixes

App Description

These virtual pattern blocks let you do everything you can with physical pattern blocks, plus much more: easily align and snap, toggle grids, and work with fractions and decimals.

GEOMETRIC SHAPES
▪ Yellow hexagons
▪ Red trapezoids
▪ Blue parallelograms
▪ Brown half trapezoids
▪ Green triangles
▪ Purple half triangles
▪ Orange squares
▪ Tan rhombus

FEATURES
▪ Easy drag, copy and snap
▪ Grouping
▪ Rotate
▪ Horizontal and vertical flip
▪ Convenient triangular grid
▪ Snapping for easy placement and alignment
▪ Pen tools for annotations and labels
▪ Common Core teaching ideas

MATH TOPICS
1. Understanding Fractions
2. Equivalent Fractions
3. Mixed Numbers
4. Adding Fractions (like denominators)
5. Adding Fractions (unlike denominators)
6. Subtracting Fractions
7. Dividing Fractions
8. Patterns
9. Ratios and Proportions
10. Congruence
11. Similarity
12. Lines of Symmetry
13. Tessellations and tiling

iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 18, 2014 Initial release
  • July 29, 2015 New version 4.0.0
  • December 09, 2015 Price decrease: $0.99 -> FREE!
  • December 14, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $0.99
  • November 29, 2016 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
  • December 04, 2016 New version 5.0.0
  • June 14, 2019 New version 6.0.1