Category Archives: Toys & Games

“SchoolTab,” the Tablet the College Board Won’t Let Kids Have

My non-artist's rendition of the SchoolTab, envisioned as an Android tablet.

Who’s holding back the tablets for school and who has the power to push back?

LeapFrog LeapPad Tablet for Math

Tablet mania continues here at Tech Powered Math as LeapFrog releases their new LeapPad tablet.

Amazon’s Kindle for Math

With so many options to help learn math in a technology age, you may have overlooked using the Amazon Kindle for math. Opinions I’ve read have been mixed on using a Kindle for Math, but I think that’s easily explained.

Texas Instruments TI-Navigator Review

I got a chance to check out TI-Navigator up close and personal over the weekend as part of the TI User group I’m a part of. Texas Instruments has put together an impressive product here, with far greater capabilities than I was expecting. Essentially, TI-Navigator gives a teacher the ability to connect their computer to an entire classroom of TI-84 plus or TI-Nspire calculators.

Calculator Spy Camera

Here’s a gadget that we didn’t see coming: a calculator that doubles as a spy camera. If you’d like to keep tabs on anyone from your babysitter to your colleagues, this device delivers.

Canon announces X Mark I calculator mouse

The gadget world was all a twitter over the weekend as Canon announced the creation of the X Mark I, a combination mouse-calculator-numeric keypad. Haven’t we been here before?