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All great suggestions. Check out www.backpack.tv for more educational videos for your student to watch.

Just be aware that while the Khan Academy videos are fine if you just need brushing up, it's quantity over quality and it really is just old fashioned guy-at-a-blackboard (so it's about as revolutionary as... television...). He makes little mistakes like saying "two plus itself" (a.k.a. 2 + 2) is the same as 2 x 1 when he's introducing the times tables... and he doesn't cover concepts, just procedures.
mathtv.com is higher quality (though still emphasizing procedures), as are teacher efforts such as mathvillage.info .

Interesting suggestions but most of them are hardly what I would call "fun"

You give one actual fun app and then the 9th answer you brush over with a vague answer when the core of the article should be that very sort of thing. That's what kids are going to call fun. And it can be educational. Rather than the blatantly 'school' apps you give which look boring and like something the teacher would give them. If they know they are learning it's not fun, it's school work. And during the summer that doesn't fly. Not with any age.

Somehow we have to retrain kids that learning is fun. Thanks for this great article. As a school teacher, I can tell you that the few kids that look into Khan Academy will be better students next school year. I haven't seen that texting on a phone produces better math students.