Hi SBers, As a side project I developed a web app which helps young people learn multiplication in a visual way by drawing rectangles in color.
My young son and I were making a lot of rectangles on squared paper to learn the times tables. This approach seems to lead naturally into concepts like a(b+c) = ab+ac and prime numbers aswell, so I felt there should be some interactive version of it somewhere. I googled around but couldn't find any website that did this in a visual way, so I decided to do a prototype for our own use 'in-house'. After some iteration, this resulted in The Doctor X Amazing Griddable Multiplication Contraption <http://treeblurb.com/doctorx/calc.html> :] Its currently at MVP stage, so usable but not yet feature-rich. Works ok on iPad, Android and modern desktop web browsers such as recent Chrome & Firefox [ ie. not IE for now ]. Heres some backgrounder<http://quantblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/kids-multiplication-visual-calculator-doctorx-times-tables>about how the app idea came about. Feedback from parents and educators has been positive - they seem to immediately grok the idea, so the responses have been along the lines of "lurrve it.. now can you add features W, X,Y, Z" Anyway, my question is - how to monetize this in a way thats organic, fits the demographic and allows me to set aside time to give it the ongoing development love it deserves - so I can serve the needs of parents, teachers and kids to learn real math in a fun way. I considered crowd-funding via Kickstarter,com, but I hear thats US only. My loose plan is to add some paid tutorials/worksheet 'ebooks' and roll out to Android and iPad app stores. Im looking to do some guest posts on education blogs/forums to help spread the word. Ideas? cheers, gordon anderson st kilda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
