Mary Nix on July 17th, 2009

Giveme20.com looks like a useful tool. They offer resources by age, discuss setting an allowance, budgets and resources for learning how to manage your money. The site is free and offers many freebies. Here’s their description.

If your child treats money like it grows on trees, or magically falls from the sky, let GiveMe20.com be [...]

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Mary Nix on June 25th, 2009

These online math tutorials are free from Lawrence Spector.  He offers:

Skill in Arithmetic – A complete course
Plane Geometry
Skill in Algebra
Topics in Trigonometry
Topics in Precalculas
An Approach to Calculus
The Evolution of the Real Numbers

Access them all at The Math Page

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Mary Nix on May 20th, 2009

These games are designed to help children understand the basic number concepts.
Count Us In

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Mary Nix on May 13th, 2009

I love this game.  You can start out with a rectangle, triangle or hexagon.

Tessellate
–Mary Nix

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Mary Nix on March 24th, 2009

Do you ever wonder what was happening the day you were born? dayofbirth.co.uk/ will help you to find out.
–Mary Nix

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Mary Nix on March 24th, 2009

LIVING MATH
The site’s description:
“I want to build a bridge. I’d like to close the gap between math and history, science, literature and humanity created by the isolated way we traditionally approach math education.
In teaching my own children, tutoring and furthering my own self education, I’ve found that math history and literature humanizes math, makes it [...]

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