Elementary Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

iTrace offers kid-friendly stroke-ordered handwriting tutorial

by Erica Sadun (Jan 21st, 2013)

Last week, the TUAW back room got into an incredibly extended debate regarding the merits of iTrace (US$3.99), a kid-centric app that teaches kids basic letter-writing skills. In the end, I pinged the developer and requested a promo code to give the app a try. I'm glad I did, because even though ...

Khan Academy releases iPad app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 12th, 2012)

MIT alum Salman Khan has an ambitious plan. He wants to provide anyone, anywhere with a quality education. To that end, he's created a website with over 2,700 K-12 lectures spanning math, history, science and more. Now he's bringing all this online learning to the iPad with his new Khan academy ...