Unlike Esa Helttula's other apps, which allow kids to practice specific skills through a no-nonsense kind of interface, Esa's latest app, for the iPad, gives kids a playground of sorts to play around ...

It's a multiplication table! 2 rows of 5 make ten cheese puffs. 2 x 5 = 10 It's just like a regular multiplication able, except you count the dots to get the answer. 2 x 3 = 6 dots You can play games ...

Knowing your multiplication facts is very useful, but what happens when the numbers you are multiplying are greater than those in your multiplication tables? You will need to calculate using a column ...