Math in the Summer?

As strange as those words sound, that's what we had in the Computer Lab on Saturday. A parent had asked the instructor to make sure that her kids play some math games to brush up on their addition and subtraction, two subjects that were likely pushed to the back of the brain by more "summery" concerns like sprinklers, popsicles and beach days.

However, there are plenty of great tools out there to help kids learn and have fun at the same time. The website we used on Saturday is CoolMath4Kids, a website that featured a ton of different math games for Lena and Paulos to choose from.

Both elected to play the "Number Monster" game, and were able to choose problems that ran from "Easy" to "Monster."

The kids were understandably a bit rusty at first, but once the pencils and paper came out, all of their math knowledge came flooding back!

Above: Lena studies the screen, analyzing her next Math Monster problem.
Below: Her brother, Paulos, does the same, writing down his work to make solving the problem a little bit easier.

Below: Paulos' score after about 10 problems (with only a little bit of instructor help).