Parents --- Homeschooling Can Take a Lot Less Time Than You Think by Joel Turtel
... Also, bookstores like Barnes and Noble and Borders have whole sections full of books about teaching your child to read, write, and do basic math, as well as books that will interest and challenge young readers. Once your children learn to read well, the whole world of learning opens to them. They can explore any subject that interests them, and read ever more difficult material by themselves in books or on the computer. For a small subscription fee, your children can study the entire ...

Parents' Complaints --- Arrogant Public Schools Turn a Deaf Ear by Joel Turtel
... For instance, many public schools have introduced classes and books about homosexuality into elementary and high-school sex-education classes. When parents find out about these classes, they frequently complain to the school principal and local politicians. To avoid these complaints, public schools often try to keep secret from parents what they teach in these sex-ed classes. Moreover, teachers, principals, and school authorities don't have to listen to those amateur, irritating parents who ...

Ensure Your Child's Success in Math - 10 Great Ways! by Susan Jarema
... Many math books are written especially for parents to provide inspiration, instruction and ideas. And the Internet now has endless math websites for all ages with online visual applications, videos, games and music. Time spent exploring math with your child will help your child excel in other areas such as science, geography, music, art and problem solving. Our children can grow up to enjoy mathematics and we parents can learn along the way. Find an hour each week to share the wonders of ...

Teach Your Kids Arithmetic - The Quick-Add - Part I by Joe Pagano
... In continuation of my series on arithmetic, I present here a topic that was one of the cornerstones in my book “Arithmetic Magic.” To fully understand how this concept aids one in arithmetic operations, we need to lay some foundational ideas first. The “Quick-Add” is an enormously valuable tool to help children master quick arithmetic, particularly applied to summing numbers. Today the calculator has crippled even the ablest students. Hardly a one knows his fundamental multiplication ...

DIGITAL Casinos by Rohn Engh
... Most researchers settled for “good enough for government-work” –and books and magazines from that era reflect this. Today, for photo researchers, Google and other search engines have become a magic wand for finding that hard-to-find image. Using a word-search feature on their computer, they are able to sift through hundreds, even thousands of keywords to locate the source of that exact photo—in just seconds. The laborious search process of the last century is over.

History of the Computer - Computers and Technology by Michael Cooper
... to the sound of the sputtering motor powering the first flights of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk and the roar of the mighty engines on a Cape Canaveral launching pad". End of part one. Works Cited Wulforst, Harry. Breakthrough to the Computer Age. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. Palferman, Jon and Doron Swade. The Dream Machine. London: BBC Books, 1991. Campbell-Kelly, Martin and William Aspray. Computer, A History of the Information Machine. New York: BasicBooks, 1996.