Don't Back Down

We're trying to get geared up for school, and working on some math around the house, so we needed to find some practice math. I found a couple of sites that are coming in pretty useful.

The first, the Kid's Page, offers a whole bunch of pre-made worksheets. Generally speaking, the level required for some of them are middle elementary and up. Our soon-to-be-first-grader can't handle more than a few of them, while our soon-to-be-fourth-grader can handle most, but a couple are a little out of his reach. There are also a bunch of other worksheets available on other subjects, but I haven't checked those out yet.

The second site comes from the Discovery School, where they offer a handful of worksheet generators. They even include some pre-generated worksheets that are ready-to-go. The addition and subtraction worksheet generators, specifically, have worked out really well for us, as we can do small-number math for our younger son and larger numbers for our older. There also are some additional teaching tools, including a lesson planner, a puzzle maker, and a quiz center. I haven't tried them, but they look pretty impressive.

More than one site has mentioned a new point release (0.9.3) for Firefox. While this is apparently the case, the download link on the front page does not point to the setup for 0.9.3 - it points to 0.9.2. Using a little creativity, you can munge the URL for downloading 0.9.2 into one that you can use to download 0.9.3.

Update: Here's the link that I used to download 0.9.3. The Firefox web site still has a link to 0.9.2 on their main product page. Thus far, I've had good luck with 0.9.3. Your mileage may vary. Please use caution.