Win an iPod Nano: Grade 7-10 students can access math homework help online

A new website has been launched to help students in Grades 7 to 10 with math.

Homework Help provides free, live one-on-one tutoring in math from Ontario teachers Sunday to Thursday from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm.

The website also features 20 in-depth math lessons, over 300 videos of math topics, 16 animated and interactive tutorials, math games, virtual scientific calculators, chat rooms, and much more!

Funded by the Ontario government and administered by TVO’s Independent Learning Centre, Homework Help can be accessed at – https://homeworkhelp.ilc.org/

Rainbow District School Board is hosting a “Win an iPod Nano” contest to encourage all Grade 7 to 10 math students to register for Homework Help to support their in-class studies.

In order to be entered in the draw, students must participate in an online session, completing an “Ask A Tutor Scavenger Hunt” form.

Additional information is available from teachers in Rainbow Schools.

Last date to enter the draw is May 16th, 2012. Draw date is May 22nd.

Rainbow District School Board extends its thanks to Staples on the Kingsway for donating the iPod Nano in support of student success.

For more information, please call Martha Walli, eLearning Contact, Rainbow District School Board, 705-675-0215, ext. 4.

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Media Contact:

Nicole Charette, Senior Advisor,
Corporate Communications and Strategic Planning,
Rainbow District School Board, 705-674-3171, ext. 7217