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Math & Logic
- Like magic? Then look at these 3 cool
"mathemagic" tricks (#1,
#2,
#3)
- Try the Math Problem of the Week:
Elementary
Math or
Geometry
or Algebra
- Try Houghton
Mifflin's Question of the Week
- Try the MathCounts
Problem
of the Week
(tough!)
- Chess-
play online against a computer, you set the difficulty level.
Select "puzzle and board games."
- Games!
- lots of choices here.
- Lots more
games here
- Play 6
interactive puzzles based
on the historic games: Peg Solitaire, Fiver, Hare and Hounds,
Tower of Hanoi, TacTix, and Hex-7.
- Brain
Food- hundreds of puzzles
from word games to logic problems.
- Instant
Solutions to Your Math Problems -
a site with calculators to help you solve a variety of math
problems from everyday problems (figuring a tip; the sale price of
an item) to word problems, converting fractions to decimals, as
well as help with trigonomy and calculus.
- Geometry
- Find out what words
and phrases your phone number
spells.
- MegaCalculator
- More than 40 calculators
to convert between both modern (metric, U.S., British, etc.) and
ancient measuring systems, as well as others: hardware nails,
numbers in the millions and billions and zillons, weight in space,
kitchen measures and more - with links to dozens
more.
- Multiple
Conversion Calculator -
find the leap years within a range of year, convert between
gigabytes and megabytes, convert units of weight and mass, figure
out percentages easily, determine if a number is prime or not,
convert to and from five units of torque, and many other
conversions.
- Barcodes-
Fill in the field with a 12-digit number and this tool will
generate a barcode. Includes a link to a site which explains how
barcodes work.
- The
Abacus: The Art of Calculating with
Beads - Explains the
history and use of this ancient calculator and includes click and
point abacus.
Science
- Weather.
Try these 2 suggested highlights: "Weather Experiments" or "Photos
& Art"
Reading
& Language
Visit Harcourt "Trophies" 
reading web site ("Helping Your Child Learn to Read").
Your
Dictionary.com -
dictionaries for over 280 languages, glossaries for over 50 areas,
grammar resources and more.
Commonly
Confused Words: shows
groupings of commonly confused words; includes information and
quizzes to help you figure out when to use which
one.
Broken
Rules Page - topics such
as "never end a sentence with a preposition" rule; lists of words
that violate the "i before e" rule.
Common
Errors in English
Alta
Vista Translators - You
provide text or the address (URL) of a Web page to translate from
English into French, Spanish, Portuguese, German or Italian or
vice versa. For fun, try translating something into a second
language and then back again into the original
language.
FreeTranslation.com
- Translate FROM English
to French, German, Spanish, Italian, Norweigian, and Portuguese
and translate TO English from French, German, Portuguese and
Spanish.
Travalang's
Translating Dictionaries -
Translating dictionaries for German, Dutch, French, Portuguese,
Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Frisian,
Afrikaans, Hungarian, Czech, Esperano and Latin.
Hieroglyphics
Translator - enter text
and have it translated into hieroglyphics.
Wordly
Wise WordGames-
challenging collection of great word games.
Wordplays-
test your word knowledge with the interactive games Boggle and
Crossword Challenge. The site also features 7 interactive tools to
help you solve word puzzles.
Daily
Word Search - a new
interactive word search puzzles every day. Choose from 5 different
versions from easy to difficult.
Quis
vocaris? Your Name in Latin
-find your name in Latin.
Deep
thoughts
Rules
for good writing (humor)
Poetry
Favorite Links and Odds &
Ends
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