Here's what you're up against. �Mr. Google gives away 25 of your 50 rules For FREE! Here:
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/translat.htmGoogle quote:
Over 16000 math word problems for grades 1st through Advanced 6th. Available both in English � New problems are added regularly. �that's a paid site here:
http://www.mathstories.com/which, since you're selling "for gifted kids" makes more sense because when they get into something they over-do it.
I'm just an avid consumer not a marketing professional. �I do buy things like what you're selling which is an exhaustive summary of one thing without all the extras even knowing there's webpages giving it away. �I do. �If I were buying it your advertisement would not sell me. I would buy from amazon. �I would spend 2 or 3 nights flipping back and forth through all that's available on amazon �and buy the most stream-lined, exhaustive, no frills book, which yours actually is. �Amazon has a thing that you put your e-book for sale as a book and they only print copies as people buy them. �
Just as feed-back for advertising that I see and am sold by, here's the friendly, informative blog:
http://www.tutorhand.com/tutoringblog/teaching-mathematical-word-problems/I see they give away broad, useful information, enough so that you can use it and do it yourself, but just enough so you can see how much work it would be and hire them instead. �It's hard to buy from this sales pitch because I look at it and say "amature" and wonder if they really know any more about it than I do. �Are they worth paying?
There's this guy: �which is like you, got a good looking product but just looks so darn flashy, gimmicky, sales man. �Granted, this formula might look like a sales pitch because it actually makes sales and has successfully over time. �But I looked into that guy selling this outline a few years back, his name escapes me at the moment. �
http://www.good-child-guide.com/What I more often buy from more quickly and without hesitating for so long over more often looks like this:
http://www2.nvusd.k12.ca.us/apps/pubs.asp?Q=2&T=Board+Math&P=52Granted, that's a school, but the layout... If you made pretty whiteboard problems showing over and over how you're rules apply repeatedly to all conceivable types of word problems you could show me how your program works convincingly without even just telling me�
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55 essential but simple rules (with examples) as well as error-reducing 'tips'
Converting common words (e.g. �'is', 'of', 'by', 'per', etc.) into math operations
Not quite what you expected when you wandered into a gifted forum, huh? �Makes me feel for the teachers who wander in to teach a gifted class thinking it will just be more of the same but less work for them because the kids are gifted. �Makes me feel for the kids who get such a teacher as well. �Makes me very grateful that people are creating different environments for gifted children to learn in.
K. �I'll can it unless you want me to tell you more ideas of more work for you to do, but I won't charge you. �
