hi math cats i think your site is cool but.... do you think you could put in more games and mabey some quizzes too like how well do you know about cats stuff like that ty

Jeri M.
Dayton, Ohio
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Hi Jeri, a lot of kids ask me for more games. The thing is, I want Math Cats to be mostly about exploring math in creative ways. Games are not creative. You have to follow someone else's rules to play a game. Games can be fun, but I want kids to see that math is fun even without games. I'm afraid if I put too many games on the site then a lot of kids will never explore the other parts of Math Cats. Plus there are lots of other math sites with math games, but there are not so many sites with open-ended math explorations. I am trying to do things on Math Cats that other sites aren't already doing. But I do like your idea about a cat-related quiz. I will think about that and maybe someday I will post a math-cat quiz game.

Prime Cat of Math Cats
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February 2, 2005

hi math cats i think your site is better when its not full of games i went to other sites and they are more games then math so keep doing what you do best. sending math to kids in cat style

Jeri M.
Dayton, Ohio

This is Ninneyman and we love math cats!

I've never really liked math because it was always my worst subject. I could never go home and just study and memorize, it was (and still is!) difficult. But, on the day I was suppose to give my math presentation (I was SO nervous everyone had already gone before me and got low grades!) I showed my whole class your website, everyone loved it! It went great with my presentation and i was the only person to get a "100"!!!! Thanks Math Cats!!!

Thank you again, Kalyn!

Dear Mathcats,

I love your website! It's just heart breaking to read that I just found out about this website. Whoever created this website is awesome! If there is more than one person that created this website they're awesome also. thanks for creating such a wonderful website. Also before I say good bye, I think cats are sooooo cute. My complements to the creater or creaters. { cats rock!} I still loooooove dogs!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dog and Cat Lover
Nashville, Tennessee

I just love your web site! I get up at 4:00 A.M. too see if you have any more scoops and cool new things. I also love cats, and get this I even addvirtize this site and I'm only 10!!! And me and my gals all love the site too, and I have like...15 of them! I wonder if I will still lovvvvve this site.
LUV YA! Yaya (Olivia)
Graf, Germany

I realy like your site! Its a great idea to create a kids site one you dont be careful where you click site! Your games are awsome and there are a ton of choices! Your the site everyone is talking about at my school! And why wouldent you be? I love cats! So do all my friends! You and yahoolagins are the ONLY site I visit! CATS ROCK!

Love
Autumn
Brownsburg in the U.S.

Thank you math cats for saving my life, in class. I don't like school. In our class we got a grant. We bought lots of stuff. My favorite thing is the Labtops. We have 18 of them. This is how you saved my life. We worked on mathcats the whole hour of math class. It was so much fun. My teacher loves it so much that we have did it 2 times. Thank you for making mathcats. I love mathcats. It is a great thing to do on a rainy day. The best thing about is you learn new things. Thank You!!!

Megan
Lake Charles, Louisiana

Hay  are you really cats? of corse your not. or are you?. well I just want to say your web site is really really cool I go to it everyday I really do love it! thanks for putting it on the web it was shouch a good iada once agoin thanks. some times i even get up at night to see the web sight and to see anything new and to be the first one to tell my friends all my friends go to your web sight and that say it is really cool and I have adout 20 friends of corce i was the first to see the web site and I told them now they go to the web site everyday now too! It's like we compeeting to tell each outher first of corce we all reaty know because we went to the web site in the moring like at 5:00a.m this web sight has inspired me alot same with my friends thanks thanks thanks and i mean it thanks once more why it can't heart. I have two cats and one dog, i would have to say I like the cats beter. I am 13 years old and I think all kids my age and alder and yonger to go to this web site vvere day because it is very cool and I am sure that you will love it like me and my 20 friends.

thanks math cats,

Me Mee
Casper, Wyoming

hi math cats i love your wabe sites i look at them everyday. my mom and dad think that this wabe sites is good because they like some of the liters. how did you get the name math cats? who made up the name? i like that name math cats. i have 4 cats. there names are kind frindly yo and my favorit cat called math cat. that cat is new. when i found out this wed site my mome said i can get a cat and i named it math cat. i also have 2 horses, 10 fish, 4 doges and 1 hamster. my mom said i can get 2 cats and 2 dogs for my pets and maby my mom will say i can get 5 fish if i feed the horses 9 weeks and then i could get my 5 fish. i am a big fane of math cats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love your wab site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heather
Texas

Hello kit cats!

I love your site. It's just the best!
I go on it every day and I have played all the games.
I think it's great because I learn lots of new things. My mum thinks it is great too because she likes me looking up educational sites!
This is the best site ever it is sooo cool!
I used to find maths o.k but now i love it!
Please write back to me! o hope this will be your favourite email!
luv
the mathcat lover:
Kirsty
xxxxxxxxx
Bucks

Yo Cats,

I LOVE this site. It's just totally awesome. I go here everyday to encourage myself on math. I have tried like everything here for 1 billion times and I know that these kitty-cats rock the world. I told my friends to go on here and they love it so much. I don't know if I can live without this site. Please don't take this site away. Even my parents say that this site rocks. I just love this kitty-cat site and this I swear. Please write back to me and I hope that this is your favorite message cause everyone said so. I LOVE MATHCATS.COM! I might even make a book about this. Thanks for all your teaching to me! Love ya kitty-cats!

Megan Y.
Derwood, Maryland

Heya KittyKats!

This has gotta' be the most AMAZING site i have ever vistited. It's well good! I've had a go at making all the activity things! And it made it well easy! I go on this site everyday because it makes me smile and evrything!! when im older im gona breed cats and they are gonna look just like the ones on this site!!

please dont ever quit math cats because its the best and i love it to bits!!!!!!

its definately gotta be my most favourite site by far. I mean, Math is so boring, but now, i quite enjoy it. I've told all my friends about your site and they said they like it as well!!

please write back to me!! Hope this becomes your favourite email ever! All my friends think it should!!

I LOVE MATHCATS.COM!!!!

love u all very much

Betty

You truly have inspired me =)

p.s - my mum and dad think its a good site as well!!!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Kitty-Ville

I LUV YUR SITE!!!

Dear Math Cats,

I love your site. It is so cool! I like the way it teaches math. It shows kids that learning math isn't always boring; it can be fun, too!

At school, I could just barely handle the hour of math we had. I mean, sure I liked math and my math teacher, but doing a whole bunch of worksheets every day for an hour is not my idea of fun. Here, the way you teach math, I can handle hours and hours of math!

Another great thing about your site is the theme. Many kids are into cats. Cats are playful, loving, cute, and very colorful (In your case). All in all, cats are a great way to teach math.

I bet a lot of kids come on this site every day. You and your fellow kitties did a great job of making this a fun site for kids!

Plus, not only do you have math, you also have some art, letter writing, etc. Kids can come to this site and play the day away while they are learning their math facts, too! This site is approved by most parents as a good learning and having fun site.

All in all, you and your fellow math cats have done a great job of working on this site. Keep up the good work, my math kitties!!

A kid who loves your site more than popsicles :),

Addie M.

The rest of this page begins at the beginning and includes messages through the end of 2001. Links just above and at the bottom of the page take you to other years.

What a beautiful job you did. I'm impressed. Thank you.

Marian R.
[one of the contributors to the Logo 15-word challenge, now posted in the Math Cats' Art Gallery]

Great new site to check out:
http://www.mathcats.com

Marji
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9/25 and 9/26/00, postings to the lists in reaction to Marji's message:

Cute site! Lot's of cute stuff already. I really like the logo pictures.

Suzie
If at first you do succeed, try and hide your astonishment :)
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Great job Wendy!!

I'm going to show it to the kids -- I'm sure they'll love it.

Nance
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We were impressed with the graphics and we haven't even begun to explore the site. I'm passing this along to my local homeschool group. Thank you!

Becca
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This is amazing, Marji!!

Lisa
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It was too late to let ds see it tonight but it's on our favorites now! I love it! I could have played with the turtlechase string art all night. I didn't get to finish exploring but it's calling us back for more. Great job!

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Add me to your mathcats Fan Club, Marji! What fun!

Ruth

Kudos. Marji from TAGMAX passed along your url, and my kids (and I) can't believe what a cool site this is! It's great in that it appeals to non-mathophiles (me), young mathematicians (my 9 y/o) and my sons (14 and 18) who are taking calculus. THIS is extraordinary. THIS is going in my resource column that I write in the local home school newsletter -- with highest recommendations. I've already emailed it informally to my mathematical friends......Thank you SO MUCH for putting this together!

Ruth M.
Candidate for President of the Mathcats.com Fan Club (MFC)

I LOVE THIS WEBSITE. IT ROCKS! I'D CHOOSE IT OVER ANY KIND OF SITE! THAT'S ABOUT ALL I GOT TO SAY!! BUH-BYE!

SINCERELY,
NINA

Hi! I'm Janelle B. I'm 10 years old. I live in California. My birthdate is 1/19/90. I love your website!!!! My dad thinks its great! It's sooooooo educational!

~Janelle~

I love your website mathcats. I can't wait intel your pumcink game comes! I am going to play it when it comes out!!

Love
eve204 and dmx504
ps: they are only nick names! We learned that never put your real name on the internet!
ps: If you did not konw we are two big kids.You know 8-10
ps: send us back something.

where is your directory of activities or games so that i have a starting place for the class?

Pamela R.
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Reply [after updating site in response to the message], 10/4/00:

Hello,
This morning I added a site map to the Contents page (the page with archways just after the magic chalkboard). The site map presents a listing of the activities in each section. I hope this will help in navigating the site. You still need to go to the main page of each section in order to access the activities, because I wanted the layout to be graphically appealing for children. Please let me know if you have more input for improving the site!

Wendy Petti of Math Cats
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10/4/00
Thank you for your prompt responses -- your site will be shared with the five teachers that I team with in the hopes of making math more appealing & a success for these children - many are at a pre-primer level unfortunately. Again, many thanks.

Pamela R.

Every year our domain (burlingtonks.com) constructs a Halloween page and a Christmas page for the enjoyment of children and adults alike...

Congratulations on such an informative and enjoyable site, I was very impressed with the design and the wonderful experience...

If you don't mind, I would like to link the Math Cats home page in our Kids and/or Learning sections of our website.

Jacob C.
jacherry@burlingtonks.com

I love your site. I'd added it to my sons' study folders. The older one is interested in the LOGO, the younger in playing with everything on there. One is 12, the other 7.

I got your site from one of the many lists to which I'm subbed - TAGMAX, TAGPDQ, Gt-Families, Unschooling-list, or who knows what. I sent the URL on to several lists - TXGIFTS, G-HAH, TAFFIE (and all of the others except the one from which I got it) on Sept. 28 - here's the text of that message:

Here's a site y'all have got to try - check out the art section and the LOGO code for creating each of them - fascinating!

http://www.mathcats.com/

I hope you don't mind. The site is just wonderful and I thought the HS [homeschooling] community should have access to it.

psam
Motherhood - not just a job, it's an Adventure!
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10/10/00 [after receiving a reply from Math Cats]

...I appreciate it! Several people in my HS support group are using this site with their kids, since I recommended it - anything that makes learning fun for the kids is worthwhile. My 7yo is very artistic, too, and loves the cats and the various shapes. My 12yo son is heavily into programming and is actually teaching the 7yo LOGO using those polyhedrons.

What fun! They don't even realize that it's educational.

Thank you for creating this resource for us,

psam
Motherhood - not just a job, it's an Adventure!

Nice site with fun and education! Loved your contents graphics too. Congratulations on earning A School Zone Silver Award! Attached is an award gif.

Best regards,

Perenne R.
A School Zone (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6097/)

What a cool site! You're a wonder woman! --Steve D

...I've had a blast looking at all the wonderful learning sites for kids, such as yours.

I look for sites that draw a child to action, to do something or to make something happen. I leave it to others to link the text-and-pictures sites that some adult thinks would be "good for children to know about this." I'm always looking for the "Oh, WOW!" factor, as I scientifically call it...

Nice chatting with you! Keep in touch. I love finding fun ways to "do math."

Ann Z.
A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling
http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling

I found your site through the chatroom in www.teachers.net/mentors and it completely blew me away! I have a web site for new teachers and would like to add it to my additional sites for students. What a great site for children! I am having a blast with it too and I am planning to send it to my grandchildren. Thank you.

Hannah M.
visit me at http://hannahmeans.bizland.com
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10/19/00 [after receiving a reply from Math Cats]

If I was impressed before, I am doubly so now! What a fantastic accomplishment for just one person! Do you have a background in education? You said, "I am trying to create open-ended math-related activities which stimulate thinking, as opposed to the drill and practice games which I find on so many math sites for kids." With such an enlightened view of learning, if you aren't a teacher - you should be. Actually, with this site, you are!

As far as your question... I think you would be wise to go with the second idea, that of having a page for parents and teachers. Your idea of targeting teachers and home schoolers is right on the money. Writing instructions to teachers as to how to use the activities is also a very good idea. Most teachers don't have a clue as to how to use the ideas you present. It would be a shame to have such a fine resource be relegated to an after-work pastime... Keep up the good work! I am telling the teachers in the schools that I volunteer at about your site and adding it to my site... I will continue to watch your site. Please add my name to your list of people who you will notify when you add something new.

Hannah

Wonderful website

I just came across a math website that simply "blew me away!" It is called Math Cats and can be accessed at www.mathcats.com. It is a new site. I contacted the webmaster and she said that she is going to be adding suggestions for teachers. Check this one out, and keep going back. I think you'll be glad you did.

Hannah

Check out this math site...

Ran into this very well done math site---got technology grant for my classroom, learning as I go....

I have seven brand-new computers in my classroom this year and I'm trying to find all kinds of ways to integrate interesting activities in all subject areas using the computers. This site looks like it might be a great reward activity for children who finish early and I think they will enjoy the activities....anyone can give me feedback on what they think on this or experiences???? Seems like a well-done site from what I've had time to explore so far.

Ellie
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Wonderful site!

Deb

I intend to add a link to your site. It's great! ...

Michael T.
[President of The Logo Foundation and a contributor to the Logo 15-word challenge, now posted in the Math Cats' Art Gallery]
http://el.www.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/

I write a monthly newsletter for teachers, Pencil Points, and would love to include your "November Activity" post [at teachers.net] in the idea exchange section of our upcoming November issue... I am also including your Math idea and a link to your Math Cats site. Thank you so much for these wonderful contributions.

Heather C.

Your site is soooo fantastic!!!!!!!! I will be sending the link to some of my favorite kids, teachers and parents!!!!!!

Martha T.

unbelievably cool! Thanks. Sent along to my niece whose eldest is interested in art and math.

P. P.

Your mathcats site is wonderful ....... I'm sooo impressed ..... Your exuberant creativity will energize the users ...... ( even the onlookers like me !) ..... This will take off like a house afire !! ... (I guess it already has !)

Cyn T.

Wendy P...I love your Math Cats website!!!! Thanks!!!!

by Tallytchr....

Thanks for the great sites...keep 'em coming!

I teach second grade in Tallahassee...but I do science and math workshops too and I love to share good stuff!

Betsy (Tallytchr)

I discovered your site while searching for those that I thought would be good for our students! I loved your graphics and all the neat activities that it has to offer. I hope more of our students take a look at your webpage... I will also let our teachers know about the teacher area...

Sarah J.
Literacy Coordinator, Glendale Elementary School
East Peoria District #86, Illinois

Hello,
My name is Charlotte and I am 8. I really like your website.

FROM CHARLOTTE

Magnetic Personality :)

Wendy,
You are awesome. Right on! to Hands on! As a Montessori teacher I have concrete materials for every concept in the curriculum. I love your use of magnetized strips, especially since I am now teaching in a special needs class and adaptation is the name of the game. I am heading for Home Depot today!

And the balance of the use of materials combined with the extension of the use of the same material on the computer is just what our kids need. You seem to have solved the dilemma of hands on v. computer. We need them both!

My daughter and I love to visit your site. Do you use your own online site in your classroom?

I think you should give Bill Gates a call :)

Ellen... Montessori Early Intervention 3-6

Wendy P.--Loved Mathcats.com

Wendy-Thanks for posting Math Cats. I've been looking for some sites to put on my homework grid that would not take long to maneuver around. Fun site. Thanks!

Tina in OK

Your website is so fascinating. It's really eye catching.

Big Fan

We believe your web page is a site that our teachers might like to visit. We found it contained information that is both useful and interesting to our participants. We serve teachers and administrators at all levels of education. Your site will be listed as a direct link on our Hot Spots page for next month. After that, it will be placed on our Permanent Educational Resource pages by subject. Since we are featuring your site on our Hot Spots for December, you may notice higher traffic to your site as a result of its greater exposure on our web pages.

The School Page Team (http://www.theschoolpage.com)

Dear MATHCATS,

Your site is really great!! when I went to school and did MATH it was stressing with me plus everyone made fun of me because I took so long to answer and that made me hate MATH but now I think it is going to be okay because now I can practice on this site. I am so thankfull for this site.

Sincerly,
ROSE A.

...Thank you for making such a wonderful website for teachers to use!

Angela L.

My name is ------------------- and I like your site. My mom loves it and if you want to e-mail me, you can at [____]! Thank you.

from ----------------

Hello from The School Page,

The team responsible for awarding the School Page's Web Site Excellence Award wants to let you know that your site has been chosen as a recipient. This means that you web site has been found to be among the best on the web.

The selection criteria we used were:
1. The major focus for the site is education.
2. The audience is either teachers or students, at any age level.
3. The site is content oriented.
4. It is a non-commercial site.
5. It is visually appealing and interactive.
6. It is "Kid-Safe".
7. It exhibits that "something extra".
You may notice higher traffic to your site as a result...

Sincerely,
The School Page Award Team
URL: www.theschoolpage.com

THE MATH GOODIES NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 2000 ISSUE

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Selected Site of the Month
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--> MathCats <--
A fun math site for elementary kids. Be sure to try the Polygon Playground.
http://www.mathcats.com/

...

Gisele Glosser

I would like to know if it is OK if I put a link to this great site on my second grade class web page...

Sincerely,
Mrs. R

love your site, especially for my second graders. But there's a mistake in your math facts pertaining to geography (which I will use for my weekly geography question at my school's website). Everest is no longer 29,028. IT GREW!(Plate Techtonics). But I'm not sure of the latest measurement. I'm so sad it changed. The old number was such an easy pattern to remember.

So happy to be of help!

Stephanie R.

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12/14/00

I LOVE your site! I've spread news about it to all my primary teacher co-workers at school. Can we put it on our school site? Our focus this year is on math. I found the North Caroline math site from your letters and my entire school is SO impressed with it. THANKS SO MUCH! And anyone who responded so quickly to my Mt. Everest correction has to be nothing short of wonderful!

Stephanie R.

hi your web sight is soo cool

Ashley W.

Hello,

I like your art gallery, especially the bow ties, stars and spirals. I hope you have a good winter.

Jacob

One of the papers here 'The St. Petersburg Times' http://www.sptimes.com/Technology/ has a weekly technology section. One of the features is a list of useful, interesting, quirky etc. sites.

I sent them the URL for Math Cats...

Frank C.

THE MATH FORUM INTERNET NEWS
http://www.mathforum.com/electronic.newsletter/mf.intnews5.51.html

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MATH CATS - Wendy Petti
http://www.mathcats.com/

A site for children that promotes open-ended and playful explorations of important math concepts.

Start with the magic chalkboard, then enter Math Cats MicroWorlds (interactive projects); explore the worlds of polygons, polyhedra, large numbers, magic squares, lissajous curves, and more; view and submit artwork for the Math Cats art gallery; or enter the Math Cats' Attic (an archive of past questions and answers from the magic chalkboard). Children are invited to submit drawings, story problems, questions, or ideas.

Older Cats (teachers, parents) will find an idea bank of math activities and resources suggested by teachers. Grown-ups may also subscribe to the Math Cats News, a free twice-monthly e-mail newsletter featuring Math Cats site updates, annotated listings of other math sites that promote creative explorations, suggestions for family math activities and classroom activities, and good ideas from other educators.

I love your website. I teach an accelerated math class in 2nd grade so I'm always looking for new ideas and websites to use with my class. I can't wait to show them your site.
Keep up the good work.

Also I love cats. I have 4 of my own so your site is purrfect!!!!!

Sincerely,
Gina L.

Dear Cats,

What's up! My name is Katie. Today my teacher gave us 3 different web sites. My first one to type was yours. When I got on I was amazed. I love your web site!!! It is so cool!!!

Thanks, Katie

I tried this site and its perfect. Thanks!

Sasha H.

Thanks for your great site and Newsletter. We are just commencing our school year here in Australia. I have Year 8 and Year 10 Maths classes. I am hoping to use your site for at least one of those classes as an enrichment activity...

Lorraine M.

Access Magazine: America's Guide to the Internet: Reviews / In Print / Math Help
www.accessmagazine.com

MATH CATS

aaaa [highest rating]

Math Cats injects some fun into kids' math studies with puzzles, interactive projects, contests and printable activities that offer entertaining ways to explore a sometimes intimidating subject. You'll need to download the free Micro- Worlds plug-in for the projects, which cover everything from using money to multiplication. Before downloading, you can see descriptions and screenshots of the programs. A "magic" chalkboard poses math-related questions that will likely stump even the most math-proficient parents.

Bottom line: Learning math is fun at this highly interactive site.

reviewed by Roxanne Mushrall

My name Is Hannah what do you like to do? I like to read and draw and paint and play on your website. I think you are the best website. Hay can you order me some red boots.

DEAR MATH CATS,

I LOVE YOUR WEBSITE. I HAD SO MUCH FUN EXPLORING THE WEBSITE. PLEASE WRITE TO ME. AND MY NAME IS KINGA L. I AM IN FOURTH GRADE... BYE, MATH CATS!

Sincerly,
Kinga

Hi my name is Danielle. I live in New, My birth date is 6/ 11/ 91 I love your website its great!!!!

*****Danielle*****

i love your web site math cats and so does my sis and you could put mathcats math lesons and a new leson every week thanks for making the web site bye

What a terrific program you've started. I've really enjoyed reading and exploring it today. I have a wonderful 6 year old son who, thankfully did not take after me in the math department, is remarkable when it comes to math and spatial problem solving skills. I will show him this web site this evening and plan on integrating it into our learning together. Again, thank you.

Constance

Dear Wendy Petti,

First of all, I must say that I really liked your website!

Since your site is non-commercial and educational we do grant you permission for usage of M.C. Escher images as 'tessellation puzzles'...

Best wishes,
CORDON ART BV
copyright department

Hi there!

I stumbled onto your mathcats.com attic page and thought it was marvelous!!! I am a teacher (full time high school and part time college) in California and have made a page which asks some of the questions from your page. I provided a link for the students to go to your site to get the answers...

Jan D.

Carol G.

Lori M.

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[After receiving this request, Math Cats added String Art to the Explore section on the same day!]

Lori J.

My son had a book report to do in 5th Grade tonight. He was supposed to write ten facts from the book (an information book about computers), and create some object that had something to do with the book. I thought that a decahedron would be just the thing to be his object and to write the ten facts on. I was so pleased to find your site right away with exactly the thing that I needed: instructions for a folding form. Thank you for providing this information. It was easy to use and fun to make and will be just the thing for a book report on computers, since we got the information off the internet. Thanks again.

Jean and Alex C.

I love your website the "cats" are so, so, so cute! (even though I'm a dog lover!) Please send me back a reply to my mail. Thanks!

Rachel E.

Mary Jo

I found your site via kidsclick.com and the combination of maths and cats was too good to resist. Your site has to be the best site for children who dislike maths but willingly participate and learn along the way. My 9 year old daughter is thrilled with this site after some of the "in your face" boring and regimented sites we have come across and I like the fact that it is universally adaptable so our little "Aussies" here in Sydney can have the same fun as their American counterparts. Keep up the wonderful work and I will spread the news about your site. G'day and thanks!!

Sonia M.

I just love your website! Its so cool to visit and learn more about math. Even better, its all about cats!! Hope you like my picture I drew of my cat, Riley!

Sincerely,
Emily R.

Wendy F.
Tasmania, Australia

Greetings,

I am pleased to let you know that your site has been chosen to be included in this month's Digital Dozen, a list of exemplary web sites for educators. The web sites are selected by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC), and the list is published each month at ENC's web site. You can see it at http://enc.org/weblinks/dd/...

Sincerely

Pam B.
ENC
www.enc.org

Marci
http://familyeducation.com/nj/mcgowan

LOVE
Emily!

Dear Math Cats,

I REALY like your site. It helped me alot with math, and it has my favorite animal! CATS!

your the best website i've seen
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To Mathcats,

I really enjoyed you web page although you sould have more games that include times, divison, plus and take.

thank-you for your co-option
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To prime cat

i love your website it is fantastic. how are you i'm fine thanks for worrying.
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- from students at Patricks Road State School in Australia

Chelsea

Thanks,
Thea

Can I mention one thing??? Well i don't care if you don't know what this means but oh well my friends do so here goes nothing!!!
Corn on the cob loves Alissa!!!
Mickey Mouse loves Diana!!!
BMW loves Courtney!!

Miriam and Bob P.

Kirsten

ps im 9

Bye!
(from a student in the United Kingdom)

Cheryl

Kim in PA

I really like your sight.
I expellee like '' Tesalltionens'' .

From,
Megan Z.

I love your website. I just found this site and I like it already. I like all your math games on here. I think I will get on this website more offten. You know why be cause I need to learn alot about hard subtraction. But I haven't found a game on learning things about hard subtaction. I really hope you cats get a website about hard subtaction facts. I need to practic for my mad minutes or I won`t pass it. I didn`t last week.

Tyler B.

SO LONG,
Aaron K.

diana

I bookmarked this page so I can use it with my grandson.

You or some of your homeschool people may be interested in a polyhedra program that prints out the nets for polyhedra. Here is the site: http://home.connexus.net.au/~robandfi/Stella.html

Richard S.

This is Aaron again. Your other games are so cool. I tried out haunted hill and tessiltown. I love figuring out those exciting puzzles & shapes. I also sent my results from haunted hill 2 times in case you haven't gotten them. Thanks for writing me, no one has written me in a long time. I have a new game idea for the website, it's math memory. You try to match the math facts with the answers, a real cool game... Happy Halloween and season's gretings! I send my regards to you. Almost bedtime. On my latest math test I got a 95% grade and I owe it all to you. This website taught me alot about math I didn't know. Thanks again!

sincerely,
Aaron K.

There's a great site that explains more than one way to explain & demonstrate maths stuff.

http://www.mathcats.com has a section for kids, but also one for adults to learn how to teach it. I really liked some of their more concrete ways.

Heidi
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[after a reply from Math Cats]

Wendy,

Welcome to our site - I hope you will visit often. As you may have gathered, most people here are parents or teachers of students with predominantly visual-spatial learning styles. Numbers and formulas are meaningless.

I'm the webmaster of this site, and also our companion site, www.dyslexia.com. I'm hoping to build a math section of our dyslexia site soon. When I first came up with this idea, I thought it would be great to have a lot of tools and games like the ones on your site, but realized that it would take a LOT of work to create it. Now I just plan to put up a good page with links to sites like yours -- you've done such great work I could never begin to replicate it.

I was really impressed with your site. Don't be surprised if you start seeing a lot of hits coming from this direction.

Best wishes from a fellow webmaster, who fully appreciates the hours and hours of work your site must represent,

Abigail
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WENDY: I AM SOOOOOOO IMPRESSED! I am going to recommend your site to David's teacher...I have bookmarked it and plan to go there OFTEN...just a few minutes with the bulletin board and I was hooked, have not even downloaded the plugin or tried any activities, David will LOVE them...have signed up for your newsletter and appreciate SO MUCH your efforts in sharing your passion and skill with the world. What a wonderful way to share your teaching skills!

I was a kid who struggled with math. In retrospect, this was partly because I was always a year behind my peer group chronologically (skipped a grade since I was a gifted reader and very verbally mature in 1st grade) and also partly because I never 'engaged' with math. (and perhaps a certain degree of 'dysteachia'!)

Your site not only excites me, but I'm beginning to look forward to 'doing math' over again with my son. I didn't learn to do arithmetic in my head until I had a job calculating punch cards in my early twenties...perhaps I may one day conquer functions and relations, too????

MUCH LOVE...
lizzybee
PS to ABIGAIL...make this a major link, PLEASE!

I want to tell you how much our third graders and teachers like your web page. It is useful in math exploration and the applets are fun to use.

Great work, your web page is purrrrfect!

Mary Beth Y.

Dear mathcats, I loved your site, so much and I don't like websites. It is a fun way for me to learn. My whole class went on your site. I think it should be known as the best website in the world. I will involve my friends on it.

GROOV GIRL.

hi! i love your site and i think it would be an excellent edition if you had sound!!

thanks!
leadcrow

Good Morning- I am a middle school math teacher taking a computer class and creating a unit on polygons. As part of the class we had to create our own website and I would like permission to create a link from this website to yours. I have shown my students your website and they are really enjoying it! Thank you!

Mary P.
Brackettville, Tx

Hi My name is Jehan and like it the site do a new one Jehan

U R COOL CATS

Hi wildcats,

Your so big and cute! Thank you for helping me in math!

Love, Neylan 4 yrs old

Hi! Thanks for the cool site. I don't like math much, but I do love cats. You make math more fun.

dear mathcats,
i LOVE your website

Hi! Math cats! I think this is a cool site! I shouldn't really be doing this, it's the middle of my IT Lesson!

Bye!
from a student in the U.K.

hello how are you. you are the best

I like your web page. I have a question, how do you make art to put in the gallery??? please anser back!
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Reply, 11/26/01:

There are many ways to make art to put in the gallery. You can use any of these activities:

in the Explore section:
Polygon Playground
Encyclogram
Exploding Math Art

in the MicroWorlds section:
symmetry
spider web
pattern blocks
polygon maker
turtlechase
draw dots
Yehuda's Robe

After you create art with one of these projects, you can take a screenshot (on a PC, hit the PrtSc key. On a Mac, hold Apple-Shift-3, I think). On a PC, then you can open a program like Paint (Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Paint) and paste your picture there (CTRL-V). It doesn't matter if there is extra stuff around the picture. I can clear that away later.

Then you need to save the file and send it as an attachment to an e-mail message. You can send it to me at this address:

primecat@mathcats.com

Then when I receive your art, I will put it in the Math Cats Art Gallery.
Please ask an adult to help you with these steps if it seems too hard!
I will look forward to seeing your math art.

Prime Cat

hI MY NAME IS vICTORIA AND i AM NINE YEARS OLD i LOVE YOU SITE AND YOU PLAESE GET BACK TO ME BECAUSE i WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE BEST GAME TO PLAY OR DO ON your web site your Victoria W

Do You Eat mice? Dont writ back!!

Just want to thank you for the Mathcats site. My class loves it and so does my grandson. Wonderful and unique!!

Marcia H.

Thank you for sharing your great site! Wonderful!

Sandra

I just love your site. I have made a link to it from my school website, I hope this is OK.

The students are really enjoying your site.

Valerie
Calgary, Canada

I think math cats is a great on aol just want you to know that you schould put some more stuuf on math cats

well got to go
from j.z. and j.c.

DearMathcats, I love your web site. My friends play mathcats a lot . I play it at my house . What is your name? My name is Mason . My sister plays mathcats. I live in Kansas

I like your web site. I like the whole cat thing. The cats are really cute. I This is a neat place to learn more about math!

Sugarsmacks

Hey I love this thing this thing ROCKS!!!!!!!!! LOVELY!!!!!!!!
Well Math CATS pretty GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ashika .P

Have Fun !!!!!

MY NAME IS HALEY M. I HAVE A CAT HER NAME IS Katey. I live at the same place as Mason. My age is 6.

hello i LOOOOOOOOOVE KITTY CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! your site is cool!!! YEAH KITTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Avril
Australia

I LOVE YOUR SITE. IT IS SO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COOL! WHAT DO ALL YOU OTHER GROOVY PEOPLE THINK! COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kate
Australia

Hi,

My name is Jennifer R. I love your web site.

Really enjoyed your newsletter this time -- had so much fun going to the different sites and trying them all out. I shared them with my grandchildren also. Keep up the good work!

Paulie

complaments

hi my name is amber s. I really love your site it is so fun i will go on any time i could

Always a pleasure to read your newsletter. Congratulations on your recent awards -- NCTM was certainly doing outstanding work when I was a teacher, so I would think that one would be especially gratifying.

Best,
Chris

hey wazzzzzzzzzz uppppp. i have 3 cats haha

Thank you for all your efforts on the mathcats site. I am trying the hexagon tree tomorrow with some excited, wound-up, antsy fifth graders. I had green pipe cleaners in my supplies and have stick on stars. Great holiday tree!

Thanks again for your site,

Jean P.
New Mexico

I'm just writing back to get in touch. Your new games are so cool!! Lots of people in my gifted class go on your website. See, our gifted teacher, Mrs. S. gave us a whole bunch of websites and had you on it so I tried you and here I am now.

bye,
Aaron