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Price per Weight Calculator App — Compare Bids Fast

Price per Weight Calculator App — Compare Bids Fast

Posted on 30/08/202530/08/2025 by sql

Price per Weight Calculator App: Faster, Smarter Bids A dedicated price per weight calculator helps you compare lots in seconds—so you don’t overpay,…

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Is there an app to put spelling words in? Yes—here’s how

Is there an app to put spelling words in? Yes—here’s how

Posted on 29/08/202529/08/2025 by sql

Yes—there’s an app to put spelling words in. Spelling Bee Games & Tests lets you type or import your child’s list, then practice…

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Weekly Spelling Lists: Make Tests & Games from Homework

Weekly Spelling Lists: Make Tests & Games from Homework

Posted on 27/08/202529/08/2025 by sql

Weekly spelling lists don’t have to be dull. This guide shows how to turn homework sheets into quick tests and games, plus a…

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How to Solve Countdown Numbers: 7 quick tactics

How to Solve Countdown Numbers: 7 quick tactics

Posted on 27/08/202527/08/2025 by sql

To begin with, if you’ve ever stared at the clock thinking how to solve Countdown numbers faster, these seven tactics will save you…

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Countdown Hall Of Fame New Inductees

Countdown Hall Of Fame New Inductees

Posted on 01/05/202526/08/2025 by sql

Countdown Hall Of Fame New Inductees                                  …

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The Countdown Numbers Game - Best Players

The Countdown Numbers Game – Best Players

Posted on 19/02/202526/08/2025 by sql

The Numbers Game Best Players How to play letters and numbers countdown – numbers Firstly make a selection from the five choices at…

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The Countdown Letters Game - Best Players

The Countdown Letters Game – Best Players

Posted on 19/02/202526/08/2025 by sql

  The Countdown Letters Game Letters have a part in the Daily Challenge The Daily Challenge is a competition against players worldwide. Try…

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The Spelling Bee

The Spelling Bee

Posted on 13/01/202526/08/2025 by Pat Mannerstrale

The Spelling bee and education The Spelling Bee has become more familiar to me over the past three years, I vaguely knew before…

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Better spelling and creative writing

Better spelling and creative writing

Posted on 23/09/202426/08/2025 by Pat Mannerstrale

Spell, create, communicate Thankfully, we now have computers with word processing programs which have spell checkers. These can auto correct spelling errors as…

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Learning to spell in different languages

Learning to spell in different languages

Posted on 06/07/202426/08/2025 by sql

Learning to spell in different languages Learning to spell in different languages offers numerous benefits, enhancing cognitive abilities, cultural understanding, and communication skills….

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A History of Farming and Technology.

A History of Farming and Technology.

Posted on 06/09/202326/08/2025 by sql

A History of Farming and Technology The history of farming and technology is a narrative of innovation, resilience, and transformation. For millennia, agriculture…

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What are Chat AIs - are they Friends or Foes?

What are Chat AIs – are they Friends or Foes?

Posted on 01/05/202324/09/2024 by Pat Mannerstrale

Chat AIs Friends or Foes – a Very Topical Issue What are Chat AIs?  Chat AIs – friends or foes “Chat AIs are…

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Educational App Store Review of Spelling Bee Games & Tests

Educational App Store Review of Spelling Bee Games & Tests

Posted on 09/08/202226/08/2025 by sql

Educational App Store Spelling Bee Games & Tests Review Congratulations Spelling Bee Games and Tests you received 5 Stars!   EAS Star Rating…

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Allowed words in Countdown

Allowed words in Countdown

Posted on 18/02/202226/08/2025 by sql

After recent feedback suggestions the following changes have been implemented. Abbreviations and any proper nouns have been removed from the dictionary. A challenge…

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Update Changes in number selection

Update Changes in number selection

Posted on 05/09/202126/08/2025 by sql

Countdown numbers game updates After recent feedback suggestions the following changes have been implemented. To avoid using so many brackets in calculations you…

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Internet Of Things Explained

Internet Of Things Explained

Posted on 28/11/202024/09/2024 by Pat Mannerstrale

The Internet of Things and what is it? Because I kept seeing the acronym IoT I looked it up to find out what…

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Improve spelling and communication

Improve spelling and communication

Posted on 23/04/202026/08/2025 by Pat Mannerstrale

Is it important to improve spelling? To improve spelling skills is important even in the digital age. We now have computers with word…

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5 Steps to Improve your Mental Arithmetic

5 Steps to Improve your Mental Arithmetic

Posted on 16/04/202026/08/2025 by sql

Mental Math Tips Mental math tips – keep your brain tuned. I watch the lovely Lily on SBS’s Letters and Numbers. She amazes and…

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Home Schooling Apps that will help

Home Schooling Apps that will help

Posted on 21/03/202026/08/2025 by Pat Mannerstrale

Free Learning Home Schooling Apps for so many in so many countries Free learning apps – Home schooling by choice is one thing,…

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Tips for improving at Countdown

Tips for improving at Countdown

Posted on 23/02/202026/08/2025 by Pat Mannerstrale

Tips for improving at Countdown Game “Tips for improving at Countdown game” is aimed at helping to improve your score both when watching…

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How to improve at Countdown

How to improve at Countdown

Posted on 23/02/202026/08/2025 by Pat Mannerstrale

How to become a Master Countdown Solver “Become a master countdown solver” refers to the British TV game show. In Australia it is…

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Learning Technology Through Play

Learning Technology Through Play

Posted on 07/02/202024/09/2024 by Pat Mannerstrale

Learning Technology through Play Education technology is a rapidly expanding market and is expected to be worth $342 billion in 2025. However there…

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Google Chrome not working

Google Chrome not working

Posted on 24/01/202024/09/2024 by Pat Mannerstrale

Google Chrome not working is a big problem Like most people if I want to know something I “google it“.  Also like most…

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Can you put a smart phone into your hand?

Can you put a smart phone into your hand?

Posted on 09/01/202013/01/2025 by Pat Mannerstrale

Can you put a smart phone into your hand? Can you put a smart phone into your hand? This seems a strange thing…

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Train your brain and keep dementia at bay

Train your brain and keep dementia at bay

Posted on 02/08/201926/08/2025 by Pat Mannerstrale

Train your brain? Can Alzheimer’s and dementia be prevented? There is a lot of concern about the number of people with dementia in…

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Making mobile apps for Iphone and Android

Making mobile apps for Iphone and Android

Posted on 26/06/201931/08/2023 by Pat Mannerstrale

Making mobile apps Making mobile apps was what I decided to do as I like living in Far North Queensland and love the…

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Computers for all ages - never too old or too young

Computers for all ages – never too old or too young

Posted on 16/05/201931/08/2023 by Pat Mannerstrale

Computers for all ages Computers for all ages was something I thought about after a conversation with an electrician. The tradesman came to…

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What is STEM?

What is STEM?

Posted on 18/02/201926/08/2025 by sql

What is STEM and what is Flipboard? STEM had passed me by! What is STEM I wondered as I flipped through Flipboard. The…

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Sagrada Familia

Sagrada Familia

Posted on 30/11/201828/08/2023 by Pat Mannerstrale

Barcelona’s Iconic Basilica I along with 3 million others visited Barcelona’s iconic basilica the unfinished Roman Catholic church in 2007. It is a basilica…

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Bastille Day, Nice and the fear of Islam

Bastille Day, Nice and the fear of Islam

Posted on 23/11/201802/04/2023 by Pat Mannerstrale

Bastille Day, Nice and the fear of Islam Terrorism in Australia Terrorism is now part of the landscape in Australia. This week in…

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Bridge Mates

Bridge Mates

Posted on 22/11/201802/04/2023 by Pat Mannerstrale

How I first met Chester Czeslaw Fickowski, survivor of many unfortunate events, was treasurer of the Tableland Bridge Club when I joined in 1982….

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How does Bodmas make a difference?

How does Bodmas make a difference?

Posted on 25/10/201826/08/2025 by Pat Mannerstrale

BODMAS Rules BODMAS, BOMDAS, PEMDAS Here we clarify the BODMAS rules – Do you vaguely remember hearing the acronym BODMAS from school days?…

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Variety is the Spice of Classroom Life - Mobile Devices in Schools

Variety is the Spice of Classroom Life – Mobile Devices in Schools

Posted on 23/09/201826/08/2025 by Pat Mannerstrale

Different Strokes for Different Folks Should mobile devices be recognised as educational tools. Every teacher knows that a lesson plan which can work…

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A new lease on life

A new lease on life

Posted on 31/08/201802/04/2023 by sql

My first IPAD I got my first IPAD in 2010 shortly after I retired. It was IPAD1 with no camera and was quite…

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