New Tools for Back to School

While we all wish summer could go on for ever, school's now back in session for pretty much everyone. With school comes homework, and computers are becoming ever-more useful in helping kids and teens alike get their coursework done. Completing homework more quickly means more free time, and that's what we all want, right?

Aaron recently discovered this list of 50 open-source (i.e. free to use and download) software tools that could be helpful for students who are working on everything from math homework to astronomy projects.

From Aaron:

Here is a listing of 50 Free Tools that may be useful in the centers. Glancing over the listings, there is a graphing calculator program that will be useful, especially for the teens.

The graphing calculator program he's referring to is GraphCalc, a program designed to do everything hand-held calculators can do. These calculators are often essential in high school-level courses like Algebra, Geometry and Statistics, so this program could really come in handy for the older kids.

Check out the full list to see if there's a program to suit your needs, but there really is pretty much something for everyone on there. And best of all, it's all open source, which means it's all yours to use as much as you want.