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Mathlet: A portmanteau of work Math and Applet, Mathlet is a web widget that can be plugged and played in different portals. The first product to have come out from Mathlet initiative is iHeyMath! iHeyMath! is a cool Mathlet that can be added to iGoogle homepage. iHeyMath! enables easy browsing of lessons specific to user’s grade and subject requirement. Keep watching for exciting new Mathlets to be released soon.


PRIME: Program from Raffles Institution for Math Enrichment is a new Online Math Challenge, developed in partnership with Singapore's leading school, Raffles Institution. PRIME consists of a series of in-depth Mathematics courses for students at the primary and secondary school level. Each course comprises online instruction, online worksheets and a final exam. A certificate is awarded on successful completion of each course. Currently, the users have 28 courses to choose from!!


HeyMath! goes e-Commerce: Buying HeyMath! products has become easy and instantaneous. Select your choice from various HeyMath! products and pay using your credit card. The payment is processed securely and your access details will be mailed immediately.


User Forums: Still in the early beta stage, this will enable new ways to discuss HeyMath! lessons

HeyMath! Junior: HeyMath! is all geared towards this new release and anytime before the end of this year HeyMath! junior should be available. You should then be able to enroll your 7 year olds to HeyMath!

Moodle integration: HeyMath! has successfully done the initial demo of integrating HeyMath! lessons into the popular Moodle application. Users can combine the power of Moodle and the high quality research-based content from HeyMath!

Raffles Institute to feature HeyMath at MOE ExCEL Fest 2007
This will feature Raffles Institution's use of 'HeyMath!' in building even greater interest for math among its high ability learners. Visitors to this booth will get to view real-life examples of activities and animated lessons, as well as how mathematical concepts are developed. Also featured are online assessment modules, interactive worksheets and the in-built progress tracking system. As a special treat, Raffles Institution will also be showcasing HeyMath! PRIME, a programme it jointly developed with HeyMath!

Teacher tools: We have enhanced the "Grapher" in the teacher tools section. The grapher now lets you draw quadratics in all 3 forms: factorised, completed square and the general form. You can also paste the graphs you have drawn using grapher in word documents or power points and print it as well.

HeyMath! & Backpack Size: Catholic High School, a government school for boys in Singapore has done away with math textbooks for Sec 3 and Sec 4 (equivalent to US grades 9 & 10). Students and teachers logon to the HeyMath! and their entire math curriculum and lessons are available in the HeyMath! portal.

Users: Our first user from Ecuador signed up this month. With the amalgamation of latest technology and our focus on reaching out to a larger audience, HeyMath! has recently come out with some fantastic special offers that has made it almost impossible for users to resist. Do get in touch with us to find out more about this.

The purpose of the new HeyMath! blog is to share all this and more with you. We hope to give you more insight into what happens behind the scene – the research, thinking, technology and creativity that goes into the lessons that we create. We welcome ideas and feedback from you and hope that this blog would serve as a forum for communicating with our users.