Features & Capabilities

Column Addition helps students learn and practice the column addition method step by step.

The app aligns the numbers automatically so students can focus on solving each column. Carrying is handled visually with animations, helping students understand how digits move from one column to the next.

Students can solve randomly generated problems or enter their own addition problems. The number of digits can be adjusted, making the app useful for different skill levels.

Column addition is also known as columnar addition, long addition, or longhand addition.

Features:

  • Add 2 or 3 numbers
  • Each number can have 1–5 digits
  • Randomly generated or manually entered problems
  • Automatic number alignment
  • Visual animated carrying
  • Current operation for each column can be hidden
  • Operands of the current operation can be highlighted
  • Customizable interface colors
  • Adjustable animation speed
  • Different interfaces for iPhone and iPad
  • 25 six-piece animal jigsaw puzzles
  • Puzzle feature can be turned on or off

Reviews and Endorsements:

Fun Educational Apps: “iDevBooks educational math apps make math enjoyable and entertaining. One of my sons was struggling with math and I must say the use of iDevBooks math apps has really helped him.”

Professor Tim Pelton reviewed the sister app Column Subtraction: “Because no wrong entries are allowed the app provides a passive form of positive reinforcement and your child will likely improve in both confidence and competence with respect to the procedure.”

Teacher endorsement:

“The Math apps by Esa Helttula allow students to practice and reinforce the specific computation strategies taught in class, with as much or as little scaffolding as necessary. They also provide individualized feedback to each student, with an immediacy that is not always possible through pencil and paper practice.” — Rita Zeni, Ecole Sandy Hill Elementary, Abbotsford, BC, Canada

Other iDevBooks Math Apps:

Other iDevBooks math apps include Column Subtraction, Long Multiplication, Long Division, Lattice Multiplication, Visual Multiplication Table, Fraction Math, Partial Differences Subtraction, Partial Quotients Division, Partial Sums Addition, Decimal Rounding, and more.

Feedback:

New ideas to make this app better are welcome. Please visit idevbooks.com to give feedback.

Privacy:

This app has no ads, no in-app purchases, and does not transmit user data during operation. The app also does not contain links to other apps or to the web.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Esa Helttula
Rating:
3.00
(1)
Version:
7.0 Last updated: 2026-05-23
Version code:
885880281
Creation date:
2009-11-17
Compatible devices:
Size:
15.07MB
Price:
3.99
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-06
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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Apple app. Please use these information below to contact the Apple app developer.
Developed by:
Esa Helttula
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/column-addition/id339440193
Website:
http://www.idevbooks.com

User Reviews

It's a good teaching app. But it crashes every time you finish a puzzle. I was trying it out on my iPhone 5s.
by di*****, 2016-07-25

My absolute favorite is the Visual Mulitiplication Table. We have put this addition app to good use as well. I really appreciate the visual approach. The way the number sets are displayed both vertically and horizontally is very useful to the learner.
by sp*****, 2012-12-19

This is a great app to help "break down" the "carrying" of numbers! When they have the problem 26+44, they first ask the 6+4 so the child would answer 10..they show the carrying of the "1" and the next would be 1+2+4! Very nice! That saif...don't be expecting some "arcade" math game! There's enough of them out there! This is simple straight forward math and when you get a right answer, get a piece to a puzzle!
by cj*****, 2012-01-18
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