A Site to Make Math Homework Easier

School has begun, and now my children are coming home and needing math homework help.  Although I excelled at math, I have to admit I’m rusty.  The other night, my daughter didn’t believer that all her addition and subtraction of mixed fractions was wrong.  They were, and I knew it, but she made me doubt myself.  Now, I’m a techie.  I teach English online.  I design Web sites.  And I consult for people who have technology problems.  I turned to the Internet, and I began arming myself with sites that would help me get through homework challenges with my kids when it comes to math.  I’ll start with the one that convinced my daughter that I was right, and she was wrong and needed to redo her homework.  She got 100% percent I might add and understood it complete.

Calculator Soup - http://www.calculatorsoup.com/

I love this site because it didn’t just give you the answers.  It showed you the steps to the answer.  Without those steps, my daughter would not have believed me.  Another good feature of this site is that input is easy.  Some math sites, you have to put the problems in such an awkward manner that you confuse a child who is already struggling.  One thing I must say, however, is that it solved the problem different than my daughter had been taught in school, but her teacher was okay with it because she showed her work and could explain the math process behind it.  My daughter used it only for the first two, and then she did the work herself and used the calculator to check her work.

This site is also good for my son’s physics class.  It doesn’t cover every sort of physics problem such as his unit dealing with gravity, but it’s a good starter.  The explanations are clear and uncluttered which really matters to him.  In a future blog, I’ll see about finding a better Physics site for high school.

What type of math does this site cover?

Algebra	Math
Chemistry	Physics
Construction	Statistics
Conversions	Geometry
Discrete Math	Plane Geometry
Finance	Solid Geometry
Fractions	Trigonometry
Games & Sports	Time
Loans	Word Problems

Many of them will not apply to you, but it’s quite comprehensive.

Also, the Math links you to all kinds of math – just about everything your child will come across during elementary, middle and high school.