MathBlaster, an award-winning 3D virtual world by Knowledge Adventure, aims to blend learning and entertainment by inspiring minds through immersed play. This is how MathBlaster describes their program for ages 6-12: “…as new recruits at the prestigious Blaster Academy, kids will play arcade-style math games and race through high-speed missions with the help of a [...]
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Review: Mathletics
When I was asked to review Mathletics, my children were excited. They had used and loved this math program/curriculum before. Now Mathletics has a few more features, as well as another award, the ComputED Gazette’s 17th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIES) – Best Home-School Math Website. As I wrote in my earlier review, “Mathletics by 3P [...]
Review: SpellQuizzer
Some parts of homeschooling are repetitive, necessary, and, let’s face it, just plain draining. Dictating spelling lists comes to mind. I don’t do much of that anymore, though. Instead, our family uses SpellQuizzer, a simple, streamlined, and very effective computer spelling program. For several months, my younger girls (8 and 10) would sit down at [...]
Homeschool Crew Review: Math Galaxy
Here’s top quality edutainment: Math Galaxy is a personal online tutor that rewards students with great games. The different products cover everything from whole numbers to algebra in a clear step-by-step fashion, and the game rewards include the super-popular Labyrinth as well as Bridging the Swamp and various riddles and word games. The [...]
Homeschool Crew Review: Graphics Toolbox
“A picture speaks a thousand words.” Shouldn’t your pictures speak your words? This is the premise of Graphics Toolbox, a program that allows you to make amazing graphics easily. With this program you can manipulate photos, easily cut out parts, rotate them, fix backgrounds, add ribbons and text in any color you choose, [...]
Homeschool Crew Review: Family Mint
Now here’s a product, Family Mint, that falls directly into the ‘whatever will they think of next’ category. How does a computer banking system for your kids sound? With you fully in control, as banker, approver, and encourager? And all this for free! Can things get better than that? Yes, they can! We [...]
Homeschool Crew Review: Quarter Mile Math
When I found out that the Homeschool Review Crew would be reviewing The Quarter Mile Math programs, I was thrilled. Many, many years ago I’d read Mary Pride’s glowing recommendation of this math drill program and since then it has been on my mental wish list. Summary The Quarter Mile Math Program is [...]
