A parent on a mission:As a mother I realized that the most time-consuming thing I do for my kids involves finding, collecting and giving information. I use the internet so often I can't believe how many links I've collected for my kids - whether its about their education, vacations, sports, art, health, or entertainment; I've searched it, found it, grabbed it, done it and shared it.
With all of this information collecting - I noticed that my bookmarks, url lists, and printed pages and pages of documents was not helping me get organized. I needed a place to put all my links together, so I could easily find them, group them together with other documents and sometimes share them. I also didn't want to view them as urls, but as pages in a book. I soon realized there wasn't anything like that on the internet.
That is why I created the idea of 'livebinders' - which is like a 3-ring binder for the web. With livebinders you can separate links by tabs and view them like pages in a book. You can create many different binders, name them and categorize them so you can find them easily. My business partner, a fellow parent, and I soon realized that many people collect information like us, but with no place to put it and no easy way to share. So we launched www.livebinders.com, where parents can add bookmarks and urls to their own binders for free. We think parents are a great resource for carefully selected information and we want to help them create their own library of binders.
Livebinders is dedicated to helping parents put their links to good use, and with this blog I hope to highlight some of the binders that I've either found useful or that I've created for my kids that I think you will find useful, too.
Helpful multiplication worksheets:And that leads me to my 'multiplication worksheets' binder. If you have 2nd, 3rd, 4th or even 5th graders in your care, then you must be helping them memorize their multiplication tables. Memorizing times tables helps kids with their multiplication, division and eventually their algebra problems. I've found that flash cards are not enough, and that practicing on paper is very helpful. So I like to print worksheets from the web to give to my kids.
In this livebinder, I organized a great list of websites that offer free multiplcation worksheets that you can print. There is even a tab on a couple of useful interactive games that help your kids use their multiplication knowledge in a fun way.
To view the 'Multiplication worksheets'binder, click on the link below. Then go through the tabs at the top of the binder to view the diffferent web pages. (Livebinders works with Safari, IE6 and 7, the latest Firefox and Google Chrome.)
Go parents!
