Calculator Apps to Help Students with Math Homework

These are some smart calculator apps to help you and your students conduct complicated mathematical calculations. Besides the traditional calculating operations, these apps offer interesting features such as real time visual graphing, unit conversions, support for octal and binary calculations, in-built formula library, calculation history, sheet management functions, formula references,  bookmarking features and many more. We invite you to check them out and share with us if you have other suggestions to add to the list.


1- Calcbot 2
‘Calcbot is an intelligent calculator and unit converter for the rest of us. Featuring an easy-to-read history tape, expression view, intuitive conversion, and much more!’

2- Tydlig
‘Tydlig is perfect for calculating everyday things like tips and discounts, showing the entire history and allowing you to change any number with instant updates. For deeper calculations real-time graphing is an excellent way to explore and visualize things like bank interest rates and trigonometric functions.’

3- PCalc
‘PCalc is the powerful choice for scientists, engineers, students, programmers, or indeed anybody looking for a feature rich calculator. It includes an optional RPN mode and multi-line display, a choice of button layouts, an extensive set of unit conversions and constants, a paper tape, multiple undo and redo, engineering and scientific notation, as well as support for hexadecimal, octal, and binary calculations.’

4- Soulver
‘Soulver is a beautiful notepad calculator app that you will love. It has a new interface that is far more useful than a traditional style calculator, which lets you do calculations over multiple lines, and use words alongside numbers, so that they make sense. Use it for quick calculations, calculations involving variables and  percentages, unit conversions, and for thinking through problems that involve math.’

5- CALC Smart
‘CALC does live math expressions: From simplifying even the simplest like "1+ -2", that you can type the same way you'd on a paper (without the need for "negating" a number afterwards) ... to more advanced expressions like "1/3 + -( 3 x 9(log(4;8) + sind(90)))" where you can even specify a base for the log() function, use natural input without the need to insert a multiplication symbol or worry if you did the trig. function "sinus" in RAD or DEG, or closed all parentheses.’

6- Archimedes Calculator
‘Archimedes is one of the first calculators to feature an inbuilt formula library. It’s as simple as picking a formula and filling in the variables. The answer is calculated automatically, and even units are fully supported.’

7- Calzy 3
‘Calzy 3 is a beautiful modern calculator for your everyday use. It helps you perform your day to day mathematical calculation in a more elegant way. One of its novel features is "Memory Area" - where you can store multiple numerical values and reuse it across multiple calculating sessions with a simple drag and drop interaction. Along with calculation history, It has a unique bookmarking feature - Where you can you save any of your calculation with date and title for your future reference.’

8- Photomath
‘Simply point your camera toward a math problem and Photomath will magically show the result with a detailed step-by-step instructions.Photomath provides: Camera calculator, handwriting recognition, step-by-step instructions, smart calculator, graphs (NEW).’

9- CalculationBook Pro
‘Equipped with original features, including a history for easy editing and recalculation, a totalization bar, formula references, and sheet management function, it's simple to use. CalculationBook can be used easily without any fuss, just like a regular calculator.’
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