Games

Best Nintendo DS Math Games

Please buy your Nintendo 3DS on Amazon and get free shipping! Video games have been a popular way for parents to encourage kids to learn math for a couple of decades now. It’s easy to see why. Today’s kids don’t remember a time before even portable game systems, and it’s often hard to pry those systems out of their hands. The Nintendo DS seems to especially have especially caught on as a system for educational games.

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Texas Instruments Little Professor

Click here to buy the Texas Instruments Little Professor on Ebay. Little Professor–LCD version One of the earliest electronic toys I had (and certainly my first math toy) was the Texas Instruments Little Professor. While I’ve heard some people refer to it as a child’s calculator, that’s really not an accurate description. It was a handheld device that quizzed you on simple math problems. The problems were all simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

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Printable Math Games Ebook Review

I’ve been looking for a set of printable math games for a while, and I recently purchased the ebook, Making Math More Fun Games Collection, and I wanted to get a review up. This is actually not one ebook but a collection of several. Advantages of Printable Math Games for Kids It’s a common scenario: You’re a parent trying to find quick math activities to encourage your child. Or maybe you’re an elementary school teacher that needs to find a way to practice math skills, reasoning or logic in a fun way.

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TI-84+ jailbreaks the PS3

The process of “jailbreaking” or “rooting” devices such as iPods, iPhones, Android phones, and PlayStations has become increasingly popular among the tech savvy because it allows users greater freedom to install apps and perform customizations normally available only to developers. The amount of time and the procedure the process requires can vary from hours sitting at a computer to seconds on a website. Now comes word that hackers have found a way to jailbreak the Sony’s PS3 using something very familiar to Tech Powered Math readers–a TI-84+ (silver edition not required).

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