Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computer History

Hello, I wanted to bring you two new Homeschooling Resources for Math. The first website is the Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computer History and PlayKidsGames.com – Math . If you have used these websites leave me a comment and let me know what you liked about them or disliked about these resources.

Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computer History

Visit the Computer History Museum — Visit **The Computer History Museum**

Age Range: 10-18 (Grades 4-12, with parental supervision) This website is sponsored by the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, where you can virtually explore the exhibit,”Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing.” It’s an amazing, content-rich overview of the human endeavor to solve problems through tinkering, engineering, invention – as well as accidents and luck!

When you get to the site you’ll see a brief introduction, and a sliding panel that displays all of the segments of the exhibit including:

Calculators
Punched Cards
Birth of the Computer
Memory & Storage
The Art of Programming
Digital Logic
Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
Computer Graphics, Music, and Art
Computer Games
Personal Computers
The Web
and much more!

Click on any item in the sliding panel display to learn more about it, or click on the “bubbles” below the screen to follow the exhibit in sequential order. You can also click on the “Topics” tab at the top of the page to get a complete directory of what’s in the exhibit.

Each section offers interesting text, photographs, and illustrations along with interactive tools for zooming in on objects to get a better look.

Don’t miss the interactive “Timeline” that you can access from the horizontal tab menu at the top of each page. You could spend hours and hours perusing the information that includes biographies of people important to the computing revolution over the past 2,000 years.

PlayKidsGames.com – Math
Age Range: 4-12 (Grades PreK-8, with parental supervision) At this website, you’ll find a variety of fun, interactive games designed to help kids learn and practice their math skills.

When you get to the site you’ll see a menu of games that include:

Space Shuttle Launch: You chose whether to work on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or a random assortment of them all. You also get to choose your level: Easy, Medium, or Hard. Every time you answer a math question correctly, you get to watch your rocket ship launch successfully and reach the moon.
Save the Math Apples: Answer the math questions correctly and the monkey can get the apples safely across the river. One misstep, though, and the hungry crocodile gets a snack!
Seahorse Counting: Count the seahorses and click on the correct corresponding number. Great for young children learning to recognize their numbers.
Robot Calculator: Type in the correct answers to the math questions that appear on the calculator screen to make your robot very happy.
Math Pinball: Shoot the ball and hit it with the paddles; watch it bounce all around inside the pinball machine. Each time the pinball successfully ricochets off of the components of a math question, you need to answer it correctly before you can continue the game. Complete with sound effects.
Calculator Quizzer: The questions appear vertically (in the Robot Calculator they appear horizontally).

But that’s not all! There are other subjects also available at this site. Just click on the button of your choice at the top including: