Continuing our monthly Educational Apps series, here are some of the new iOS, Android, and Web-based educational apps that caught our eye this month:
THE WORMWORLD SAGA
The Wormworld Saga is an online graphic novel about Jonas Berg, a young boy who enters an alternative fantasy world through a magical painting. Author and artist Dan Lieske held a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the graphic novel's creation, and the response was overwhelming -- almost doubling Lieske's original funding request and enabling him to focus fulltime on the project. The Wormworld Saga has been available on the Web for a while, but it entered the iTunes store (link) this month with an iPad app that's perfect for its vision of a continuous-scrolling story. (iOS, free with in-app purchases for additional chapters)
KILL MATH
Bret Victor has collected his ideas about making math more meaningful to learners and designed Kill Math around the idea. "We are no longer constrained by pencil and paper," he writes. "The symbolic shuffle should no longer be taken for granted as the fundamental mechanism for understanding quantity and change. Math needs a new interface." In thinking what this new interface might entail, Kill Math offers a number of projects and ideas, including a Scrubbing Calculator and an interactive essay about using visualizations. (Web, free)