websites for help with homework?

[click123]

DS forever having to find basic info for history/maths topics and we don't have much time during the week - where do you go for help on the internet? Most grateful if you can spare time to respond. I keep trying and getting nowhere plus we don't have much time to visit library etc.

[alibubbles]

What age is he, and what year at school? I'll then find you sosme website, I have a list somewhere!

[popsycal]

give me an idea of the age and topics being studied and I can give you a whole stack of websites!

[Jimjams]

www.homeworkhigh.co.uk

Maths is live on Tuesday nights which means he can post questions to teachers. Not sure which night history is. There's also a chat room every night (moderated) where he can talk about school things- and there's a teacher in there every night as well.

[Hulababy]

BBC Bitesize is generally very good for various ages.

[spacemonkey]

that site looks good jimjams (except i can't get the chat to work on my machine)

\www.learn.co.uk\www.learn.co.uk also looks good

[spacemonkey]

oops

here's the link again

[click123]

DS is 7 will be 8 in a couple of months.

Many thanks for the responses so far I'll give them a try - just couldn't figure out how to find any at all my searches seemed to end up with loads of high flying websites far too advanced for me never mind DS!

[click123]

Alibubbles I meant to add... he's in year 3 and if you manage to find your list I'd be most grateful

plus it's a real mixture of topics flight history of that is, science varies quite a bit and it's just basic stuff he needs but with work and other children I can't ever seem to get much time to help and DH always means to but he gets books out that are far too advanced for poor DS to take in!

[Jimjams]

click123- the homework high chat room may be a bit too old for your son, but the teachers would be happy to help with any questions. The timetable is on the home page- although the site has been having technical difficulties this week.

[Jimjams]

spacemonkey what time did you try- chat is only open between 6.30 and 8.30 pm Come in on a Tuesday and chat to me (I'm called "Biology Teacher" My hobby job as dh calls it.

[spacemonkey]

hullo jimjams

can't remember what time it was, but the subject headings on the homepage were flashing "LIVE" so i guess the chatroom was open

when i clicked thru to chat, i just got a blank grey screen though

i looked at the help, but it was useless (i've got ie6 here but the instructions appear to relate to an earlier version)

it's such a brilliant idea to have live homework chat, i'd really like to get it working and introduce my year 8 DD to it

will keep trying and will look out for you on a Tuesday evening!!!

[Hulababy]

JimJams - how did you get involved in something like that? I always wondered who the teachers were - just curious really.

[Jimjams]

spacemonkey- they have been having major technical problems this week- may be worth trying again next week. We had to shut chat early on Tuesday as people couldn't get in.

Hulababy - answered a tiny ad in the TES about 4 years ago.

[Hulababy]

Cheers jimjams - just being nosey! It is one of the questions my pupils ask me when I direct them to homework sites.