Kids Consult! Presentation

1. Marie, Annie, and Eva
E-mail: consultkids@gmail.com (*)
Blog: kids-consult.blogspot.com
* Email is also checked by parents for safety reasons

2. Members
 Marie- 10 year old, President and founder of Kids
Consult!, homeschooled before, GT program 4th
grader, math circle participant, Math Kangaroo winner
for 2 years( state and national)
 Eva- 10 year old, Science Expert at Kids Consult!,
participant of AMC for high school grade level, winner
of Math Kangaroo for 2 years( both national),
homeschooled, math circle participant for a few years
 Annie- 9 year old, Organizer of Kids Consult!, 4th
grade GT, amazing artist!

3. About us
 “Kids Consult!” -(kids-made), business
group of kids 9-10 years old, helping to
review+give recommendations about
puzzles, books, games, toys, textbooks, vi
deos, curriculums, etc.
 Will review draft of one’s work prior to
their publishing it and start selling it, so
maybe they would change it a bit
according to our
reviews+recommendations

4. Our idea
 Adults often wouldn’t understand what is fun and
interesting for kids; they’ll only make their toys,
games, puzzles, educational materials, worksheets,
and books how they think it’s good which is very
different from what kids think
 Kids know what is interesting for them way more
than adults do
 “Kids Consult!” will lessen that problem by telling
adults who are making new things for kids what we
think about their product and how they could
change it to make it better and more interesting

5. Working on the Project
 Each member of “Kids Consult!” does their
own job (president, organizer, and science
expert), and in addition also gives
comments and reviews for each product.
 Every month, “Kids Consult!” has business
meetings to discuss what projects we had
that month, and what we could improve
on or work towards as well as our future
plans

6. Example of Our Work
 The next few slides will demonstrate a couple of reviews
we provided to:
 Dr. Gordon Hamilton, Founder of Math Pickle
project, Canada
 Rushton Hurley, Founder of Next Vista Learning
project, California
 Dr. Bill Marsh, Author of “Land of Lengths” textbook for
young kids, Washington State
 We also have some future requests from the Rockville
Science Center (Maryland) to help with the “Kids Corner”
on their website
 Our customers were pleased with our reviews and
changed their product according to our comments

7. Math Pickle Comments
 General Comments
 MathPickle.com doesn’t bring me to the right website.
(Takes me to Godaddy instead)
 Don’t sort the books by grade. Instead, tell the age
range (for example 8+ or 5-7 years old).
 Make difficulty levels depending on how hard the puzzle
is.

8. Math Pickle Comments (cont.)
 Earth Attack Game
 Needs a lot more color!
 Very hard to understand where to start especially for
younger kids.
 Make an online tutorial for how to play.
 Very confusing.
 Beetle Sort Puzzle
 Make the same game online so kids can click around.
 Everything else in this game is great!

9. Math Pickle Comments (cont.)
 Kajitsu Puzzle
 Add a video tutorial online explaining the rules of the game
 or make the rules more clear to understand.
 This book is fine in black and white.
 In the rules, you said that you will have to cut everything up, and I think you
should change that to color or shade in, because I thought cut up meant
actually cut it.
 Mimizu Game
 We absolutely loved the game!
 The puzzles are challenging and really fun.
 Add more color to the background of each puzzle because it’s all gray and
makes it hard to concentrate.

10. Next Vista Math Videos
 General Comments
 Show and explain why we need all those things
 It is always interesting to get some historical
background for each topic
 Summarize your main topic at the end of the video

11. Video Clip Example –
Collecting Like Terms
 Very creative usage of common real life analogy .
 Repeating the same thing over again with different
examples makes the message very clear.
 Nice to watch because good pace, friendly voice, and
cute little actor.
 Explain where and why we need to collect like terms

12. Next Vista Video Clip–Equal Sign
 00:27-00:32 (sec) An interesting historical reference to
the person who actually invented a mathematical sign.
 00:35-00:42 (sec) Incorrect use of equal sign ( orange
doesn’t actually equal fruit, it is a subset of fruit set)
 Confident voice
 Good pace
 I would recommend adding the history of equal sign
invention

13. Land of Lengths Chapter 1
Comments
 Comments
 The math content, even though it is basic, is detailed
and not over simplified
 The ideas are interesting and presented clearly
 The story has just the right amount of entertainment
without being distractingly funny
 In all, it is very educational for everyone and is
enjoyable for all ages
 Since it’s for younger kids, it would probably be more
interesting if the story was either longer, or just more
energetic throughout the story

14. Land of Lengths Chapter 1
Comments (cont.)
 At the beginning, the story is more fun and creative, but by
the end, it gets too mathematical
 Too much repetition( for example, “they looked something
like this,” or “this is how they looked like now,” repeats
many times)
 Here are some questions: What ages is the story supposed
to be for? Is this going to be part of a book? Is this going to
be an educational material or just a story?
 Also, a few grammar mistakes( for example, “the looked
like this”, instead of: “they looked like this”)
 In general, amazing!
-Annie, Marie, and Eva,
The Kids Consult! Team

15. Thank you!
 We hope that you will ask us to review your ideas,
materials, games, puzzles, worksheets, videos,
educational materials, and anything else for kids.
 We will be happy to answer any questions that you have!
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 Thank you for your attention!