Tag Archives: Maths

Maths + Games = Fun

Leave a comment

Mathletics, our free online award-winning maths website, now lets you play in the The Mathletics Four Nations Challenge taking place on 13th and 14th November.  Register to take part by going to the Four Nations Maths Challenge website and signing in with your Mathletics login.

If you’ve not yet signed up to Mathletics, then just go to our Your Library website, enter your library barcode number and complete the registration. A login will be sent to you by email within 48 hours. Then you’re ready to start the sums. Practice rounds of the challenge start on the 5th of November so you can start testing your skills before the competition takes place on the 13th and 14th of November. There are prizes for schools, classes and individuals.

Good luck!

Brand new e-resources helping children and teenagers back to school

Leave a comment
We’ve just added two fabulous online learning resources to Your Library – Mathletics and Spellzone.
Mathletics covers all areas of maths and has over 1000 different learning activities for students aged 5-18 years. Make maths exciting and encourage pupils to compete against others users from countries all over the world in live maths games of speed and skill. Mathletics offers the opportunity to set up classroom activities such as organising inter-school maths competitions and is perfect for using with homework clubs. All you need is an Edinburgh City Libraries membership to register online and get running with Mathletics.
Spellzone is an interactive online spelling course for children aged 10 and up. Spellzone is suitable for helping children and adults with dyslexia and is also useful for learning English  Spellzone contains tests and games as well as a vocabulary ‘word list of the day’. And how about this for synergistic learning – today’s word list is all about maths shapes!
Access both these e-resources from the library or from home via yourlibrary.edinburgh.gov.uk/kidszone.