While I don’t recommend the Chromecast, I do love the Apple TV as a presentation device. Click here to get it on Amazon. It’ll arrive with FREE shipping. As promised in a post a few weeks back, I am delivering my Google Chromecast review, with an eye towards how it performs as a presentation device. The Chromecast was a device I was extremely excited about. It costs just $35 and offers Airplay like capabilities that we have seen in Apple’s line of products.
I finally got a chance to do a LeapPad review. It’s something I’ve wanted to take a look at for a while, and I finally realized that one of my friends has one. He was easily persuaded to loan it to me for a few days. The LeapPad has been a hot toy since last Christmas time, when it became difficult for a lot of people to get their hands on one.
Click here to get the Fridge Phonics toy from Leapfrog.com. In a bit of a change from the kinds of reviews I normally do on Tech Powered Math, I’m reviewing an educational toy for little kids. My wife and I had our first child 16 months ago, and she’s starting to get interested in these kinds of toys, so I plan to add more Leapfrog educational toy reviews as well as toys and games from other “edutainment” manufacturers.
Leapfrog has announced their latest coupon code, and it’s a great deal. For the rest of March through April 4, 2012, you can get free shipping plus 10% off on all games and books when you order through the link below. Just follow the link and enter coupon code EASTER10. You can get a great deal and have a little something special from the Easter Bunny for your little one.
UPDATE: A couple of days after this post originally went up, I was made aware of a new hack that deserved inclusion on this list, expanding it to a top 6. Probably every single student (and just about every teacher) who has picked up a graphing calculator has asked themselves how far the technology can be pushed. What are the limits of a graphing calculator? Without much encouragement from Texas Instruments (actually quite the opposite), a dedicated hacker community has developed over the last few decades to attempt to answer this question.
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been looking at a system called Reflex Math, designed to help kids learn arithmetic facts. The stated goal of Reflex Math is to gain “math fact fluency.” Reflex is designed to help students achieve fluency through an interactive system of games and puzzles. Egyptian Conniption Reflex is a cloud based system, meaning there’s nothing to download to your computer. As long as you have an up-to-date browser, Reflex runs right in that browser.
LeapFrog LeapPad Explorer Tablet LeapFrog is offering free shipping on their popular new tablet for kids, the LeapPad Explorer when you buy a bundle that includes games. If you’re not familiar with the LeapPad, it brings many popular iPad features like apps, games, microphone, and camera to kids in a more rugged and affordable manner. Games can be purchased in traditional cartridges or downloaded as apps by having the tablet connect to your computer.
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.
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.
Listen to what tech savvy consumers, students, teachers, and even graphing calculator designers are saying about today’s graphing calculators and there’s a common theme: Why are we buying graphing calculators when “there’s an app for that”? The iPad was just the start as we now have the HP Touchpad, Galaxy Tab, and Motorola Xoom just to name a few. There are already great calculators for Android and iOS, so why are we buying dedicated devices that can only do math?
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