I love it, the concept is intuitive, and the multiple boxes gives it so many options, and extensive uses. I think though monetization of educational products is always difficult given the way the field often lends itself to free products. I think your best bet would be incorporating it into other educational packages though if monetizing it is a priority. On Jun 16, 2012 1:53 PM, "gord" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > -- 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
