Are there any teachers on board, my girl is going to school in september and i need some recommendations for some pc educational software
she is 4 and a half and can do addition and subtraction with more or less any numbers up to 20 and has a basic understanding of multiplication, as in 2x4 2x6 and so on.
so what has you got

Bluddy hell, thats pretty good for 4 year old i would have thought? maybe not nowadays????

Do they do a soft copy of Ron's Book?

That'd be good for her education later in life

I know this doesnt answer your question..

But I work in a school involved heavily with ICT etc...


Get her doing things OTHER than computer stuff.... get her using her hands and her brain AWAY from computers!!!!

As soon as she gets into school there will be an overload of computer based activites... being able to do non computer based stuff early on would be a good call.. because she wont learn that at school!!!

youve brought her along this far without so keep up the good work. Computers lead down one road, make sure you use human interaction 80% and other meth0ds for 20% otherwise you will just end up with one of those unsociable, telented individuals

2Simple have a nice range of software - mostly aimed at infant school and primary pupils.

It's not that cheap though....

http://www.2simple.com/programs/

and for home use...

http://www.2simple.com/home/

HTH

For reading http://www.oup.com/oxed/primary/oxfordreadingtree/
seems to be good and recommended by my sons grandad who is an experienced teacher.
For maths work, keep them off the puter and sit down with them to talk about scenarios involving numbers.
My son is allowed to 'play' on the Cbeebies website which has a lot of fun stuff that involves thinking. ETA here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/games/
is also good to 'play' with
HTH

PS My son is 4.

[Edited on 23/3/10 by owelly]

Being serious though, I agree with austin man, you can't beat interaction with other people. My boys both loved the games and books when they were little and I think if I'm honest, I enjoyed the Thomas the Tank Engine books more than they did lol!

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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
Being serious though, I agree with austin man, you can't beat interaction with other people. My boys both loved the games and books when they were little and I think if I'm honest, I enjoyed the Thomas the Tank Engine books more than they did lol!

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We do subcontract work for the UK's biggest supplier of IT in schools and i would agree with the previous comments, your daughter will be introduced to computers early enough, get her reading those paper things most kids dont use enough nowadays and spend your money on educational toys such as a till and plastic money? rather than expensive educational software that will be redundant in a very short space of time as they progress so quickly at that age.

If you want to do some quizzes do a search on "KS1 maths", no point spending money on what is generally pretty limited software IMO.

e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/numeracy/

But I'd echo the above, if you push too hard this early you'll potentially start causing problems for both her and the school.

If she's a year or two ahead of the rest of the class then differentiating will be hard for the teacher and she'll probably end up being really bored and disengaged with education for the time the teacher has to spend with the other kids.

Gifted and Talented (G&T) kids are the unrecognised end of special/additional needs and a lot of schools struggle to deal with them as they get bored and can start to disrupt the lessons.

My eldest is in Yr4 and they have put him in with Yr5 for numeracy/literacy purely so he gets appropriate level work, but it's not ideal socially for him.


[Edited on 24/3/10 by iank]

Something else worth considering .... does she play a musical instrument.... if not... its a good place to learn patterns and can, believe it or not help with maths...

THANKS EVERYONE the bbc schools ks1 stuff is great
also the stange thing is im not pushing her, she actualy asks me or mrs afj for some maths homework strange kid

Can't beat magnetic numbers/letters and a whiteboard. My lad's just gone 3 and can do basic addition i.e. pick 2 numbers up, join them with a + and an =, then count other magnetic letters into piles of counters, count the lot and complete the sum.

My Mum's been teaching primary for nearly 40 years. Last 10 or so has been special needs (both advanced and less abled).

The one thing she says to parents to help their kids is to read to or with them!

She has parents moaning at parent's evening that: "little Jonny is sooo bright and intelligent, why isn't he top of the class". She points out that if they spent just 5 minutes a day with the kid reading, he would be much further ahead than he is!!!

Cheers,
James