Unless you are some kind of math wizz kid, most children dread maths, but now that smartphones and tablets are available mobile apps bring a new way of learning mathamatics that can be fun games for kids to learn rather than be mundane and boring, as such we thought we’d bring you our selection of cool maths games for mobile devices today.

Thus what we have for our readers is three maths games for kids on the iOS platform along with two maths games for kids on the Android platform, of course there are many more available, and you may already have your own favourite, and if so we’d love you to share your favourite kids maths game app to our comments area below.

Anyway, that said let’s kick off with the first iOS app called, MY Math Flash Cards App, available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Apple iPad, offers basic elementary mathematics facts that are delivered in the form of randomly generated flash cards, with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division cards.

The My Math Flash Cards app for iOS devices also features simple sound effect to deliver feedback along with mastering a particular fact such as addition by two or subtracting by two. The My Math Flash Cards app can be downloaded from iTunes as a free app.

Next up we have the iTeacher Cool Math for Kids app, an iOS app that allows the user to improve on their maths knowledge by practising equations that are appropriate to their level, and are adjusted based on the child’s answers to enable the type of equation your kid is experiencing difficulty with to appear more frequently.

The iTeacher Cool Math for Kids app is optimised for learning time and eliminates wasted time on tasks that the child has already mastered, and the equations are intermingled with fun games so that the child enjoys learning about math. The iTeacher Cool Math for Kids app is available from iTunes at a cost of $4.99.

Last of the iOS apps we have the Fun Maths app for iOS devices, that has been created for use by parents and teachers with kids up to the age of seven, and is apparently a proven teaching method, which helps kids learn essential maths skills.

The Fun Maths app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and Apple iPad offers a rewards chart to enable you to set a clear goal for your child, rewards sound effects, intuitive scrolling, illustrations by UK artist Barry Green, and offers multiplying, dividing, adding up and taking away learning modes. The Fun Maths app is available from iTunes as a free download.

Now onto the Android apps with the first being Kids Math for Android devices, an educational mathematics game to improve calculation speed, with dynamically generated questions in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division along with comparing fractions.

The Kids Math app features eight levels that get harder as you pass level four, Nd the object of the game is to pass all eight levels in an allotted time, with each level featuring ten maths question. The Kids Math application is available to download from Google Play for free.

Lastly we have the Smileys Kids Math Game Free for Android, which is a funny animated intuitive math game for kids with the ability to create and chase bouncing smileys across the display and catch them by tapping on them, and helps develop hand-eye coordination, basic math, arithmetic, counting and colour concepts while having fun.

The Smileys Kids Math Game Free app is animated and intuitive, with a gradual progression to enable learning, if funny and fun, and is suitable for all countries nd languages and is available to download from Google Play as a free download.