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Hi, anybody know of any good ds games or computer games to help my 7 yr old with her literacy and numeracy?

Maths Zone

thanks that great

Try playing Yahtzee, card games such as rummy or sevens, Boggle, Scrabble, Monopoly much more fun than the ds games and the children don't even realise they are being educated as they tot up their scores.

Reading eggs, Education City, Coolmaths, Kabose, Matheletics. You can get free trials for ten days on Ed City and reading Eggs, both are very good.

www.tutpup.com

Free site and they can start off easy and graduate up the levels.

It depends how much "help" your child needs. Education City is fine for practise but doesn't actually teach any of the concepts. The graphics are great and it's very entertaining, but the educational side is not so great. I did a video review of the maths content on my blog.

Free sites are good, but as a parent you'll have to trawl through and find which topics, which level, how many questions etc.

For maths, maths whizz is good. The graphics aren't as amazing as ed city's but the teaching of the concepts is solid. I haven't tested Maths factor or mathletics yet, but again, they seem more structured than the free sites.

I used Carol Vordeman's The Maths Factor. It was quite good value at ££15.99 a month and it shows the concepts and methods on screen.
You can print off the worksheets or the work they've done.

I haven't tried Carol Vordeman's site yet. I looked at it a few months back for son aged 9, but content wasn't very challenging. Although parts of the site were still under construction, so I will have another look for DS2 as he is 5 years and needs all the help he can get!

Its interesting what Caroline says about Ed city, I thought the same, that it tested rather than taught.

Maths Factor has been upgraded since it first started.
I know what you mean about sites like Education City - I've not used it myself but quite a few home educators use it.
The tutpup site is similar to other sites that are free and reinforce. I used it to get grandson up to speed on his maths and spelling.
He's on the Algebra level now and really enjoys it.
He's home educated and we do about 20 mins a day on Tutpup. They also have a spelling part to it.

I like number shark.here can be set to any levelof ability and covers all areas.

Marjoriew, I'm off to look at Tutpup, DS1 is Home educated, maths fine, spelling not so great, worse than mine if that's possible, really interested to see how it might help.

I found Education City very good as an all round package and my kids have learnt a lot from it.

Their general knowledge, as well as their maths and literacy skills have definitely improved over the time they used this package, and because there is such a variety, I think its definitely a site to at least try.

You need to try the different age levels to assess what age is most suitable (for each topic) before you sign up. You can get trials.

We are now using Maths Whizz but I would really like an English site as well.

I like the fee paying sites because you get to see the results and can analyse your kids strengths and weaknesses.

Education City provide excellent reports and also details of the curriculum that each game targets.

Marjoriew, son loves the spelling on tutpup, thank you, you might just have helped me rescue his spelling!. Just need to work on mine now.