Top 10 Homework Help Blogs
As a parent, you're expected to have all the answers--but sometimes you've forgotten high-school algebra, junior-high sentence diagramming or even grade-school multiplication tables. At times like these, it's good to know there's some backup out there.
Clear explanations of topics such as reading, chemistry, and math ranging from counting numbers to precalculus. Includes a brief guide to online tutoring services.
Provides answers to readers' questions on subjects including music, business, computers, foreign languages, math, science, social studies and more. Answers can come in as little as a few minutes, and students can also browse lists of questions that have already been answered.
The legendary homework-help brand's online section provides an amazing range of notes on works of literature, math and the sciences. Irresistible if you need to know something now.
Multimedia presentations on popular topics such as American government, biology, environmental science and physics, with pieces on algebra and calculus available in both English and Spanish. These can work as either backgrounders for students or refreshers for adults.
Librarians in Fairfax County, which has some of the nation's highest-achieving students, have prepared this trove of links that provide information on common homework topics. Whether you're looking for literary criticism, science-fair projects, anatomy or geology, there are likely to be links that get you the information you seek.
B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
Assembled by a student barely out of high school himself, this site contains over 700 links to sites on a dozen major topics, including art/music, computer science, languages, science and social studies.
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh runs live online homework sessions every day from 3:00-10:00 p.m. Eastern time. Topics include English, history, math and science and grades range from four to 12. Also links to resources for getting homework done without help in areas ranging from African American history to science and technology.
Discovery Education Homework Help
The cable channel's education division provides video tutorials on English, math, science, social studies and other topics. Links to other Web resources on these topics as well.
Massive help center allows students to drill down by subject, year in history, skill, tool or reference resource. Also features calendars with explanations of different cultures' holidays, games, and daily puzzles such as spelling bees.
Subtitled "Information You Can Trust," this merger of the Internet Public Library and Librarians' Internet Index has produced thousands of kid-friendly links to sites grouped under headings such as Art & Music, Computers & Internet, and Math & Science. How kid-friendly? At one link, superheroes explain the Periodic Table of Elements to you (guess who stands for krypton?). http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/
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