Today we signed up for a year’s subscription to Math Whizz
www.whizz.com for DS1 (age 10) and DS2 (age 6). The
website offered a trial which they both loved (had to prise them off to give
each other a turn). A lady from the
local Home Ed network has organised a group of us so we can benefit from
‘school’ discount – yay!
I don’t want to be too prescriptive at this stage regarding what the boys are going to learn – not planning a strict timetable or anything – but I do feel it’s important for them to have a broad base of Maths skills (and English v. important too – more on that later). We all liked Math Whizz the best of the sites we looked at because it’s just so friendly – nice little animations of animals & such like. DS1 kept calling DS3 (age 3) over to look at the funny monkey who applauded every time he got a sum right in a certain set of questions. And now the boys are actually looking forward to Maths – result! (long may it continue!)
Bizarrely I felt the need to share this ‘achievement’...
hence the blog! Now to keep it up... :s
I don’t want to be too prescriptive at this stage regarding what the boys are going to learn – not planning a strict timetable or anything – but I do feel it’s important for them to have a broad base of Maths skills (and English v. important too – more on that later). We all liked Math Whizz the best of the sites we looked at because it’s just so friendly – nice little animations of animals & such like. DS1 kept calling DS3 (age 3) over to look at the funny monkey who applauded every time he got a sum right in a certain set of questions. And now the boys are actually looking forward to Maths – result! (long may it continue!)
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