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= = = A Nintendo DS can be useful to you in a couple of ways! =

**1) Math and Language Games** [|Click on me to see where to buy these games.] Click on the game titles to see a video of how they are played.

**Math:** Kids Learn Math [|Personal Trainer: Math] [|Junior Brain Trainer] [|Learn Math] Math Play Math Blaster [|Brain Quest] [|Challenge Me Math Workout] [|Brain Age] [|Big Brain Academy]

**Language:** [|My word coach]

**Strategic Thinking:** [|Thinksmart Ki + 8]

**2) Silent pictochat** Pictochat can be used to create flipbooks for different projects. This is done by repeatedly drawing a picture in the chat space and moving pieces of the picture a little at a time similar to an old style flipbook. Below are a few examples.

[|Blob eats boy] [|Death by ping pong] [|Mario]

Students could do a short flipbook project to recreate part of a story or to illustrate a piece of a project they worked on.