May 26, 2012

Mathemagic update

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Following my earlier post, a concerned user of computer maths tuition software for kids contacted me by email to ask my opinion of the software. I told him I didn’t have an opinion on the actual software, because I hadn’t tried it, but in my view it was much too expensive. As mentioned previously, I [...]

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Mathemagic Computer Tutor

maths tutor

We had a visit today from a salesman for the Australian Institute of Mathematics who demonstrated the company’s Mathemagic computer tutor software for children. When Juliet told me about the appointment I understood it was a government program to test children at maths, so I was immediately wary and defensive when I learnt it was [...]

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