Hi, Bassetlover (basset hounds or basset horns? I like both!),

Do you know the Mathematics Enhancement Programme Materials from the Centre for Innovative Mathematics Teaching at the University of Plymouth? I think they are really excellent, and they are indeed free.

Here's the address:
www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mep/default.htm

We've used quite a few things from there, and the math is both challenging and quite different from the way it is often presented in North America (it's an adaptation of a Hungarian teaching method); we like getting different perspectives on material. Some of the material is password protected, but I explained about being a homeschooler and asked very nicely, and they gave it to me.

Sorry to keep bringing these up, but we love them so! The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad site has all kinds of great puzzles that involve both language and mathematical thinking. www.naclo.cs.cmu.edu/index.php

There is some free writing stuff at KISS grammar online; I find their website enormously confusing, and I already like what we are doing for grammar, but I know a lot of people enjoy the KISS materials (and they are free as well).

http://home.pct.edu/~evavra/kiss/wb/PBooks/index.htm

My kids are much younger than yours, but there is absolutely nothing "babyish" about any of these sites; at least I don't think so.

Something I haven't investigated in any detail is the Stingy Scholar ( http://stingyscholar.blogspot.com ). As far as I recall, they have many, many suggestions for free learning materials on the web, in all sorts of subject areas. Your daughter is sure to find something of interest there!

Hope that helps a bit--

peace
minnie

PS Just remembered a couple of other things:

If she's interested in languages, you might want to look into this site, where there is a big list of links for free online language learning:

www.word2word.com/coursead.html#quechua

Another math site we like (this one is about topology):

http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbrubbergeom.htm

There's also BBC learning:

www.bbc.co.uk/learning/

mm


Last edited by minniemarx; 03/28/09 03:46 PM.