Had a meet and great with this guy on Monday night who apparently created/patented Numbskull: The SAT Prep Game. He had a little offer for me (and for some other teachers, admittedly.)
Seems that the board game's fortunes took a turn for the worse when the SAT was redesigned a few years back. The company licensing the board game decided not to redesign it for the new SAT and let the license lapse.
So Michael Bergman (the aforementioned this guy) took back the license and turned the thing into a Facebook app. You can check the whole, not-terribly-sordid history here. Currently the app has a few hundred SAT/ACT prep questions in verbal and math skills and offers students a chance to do college admissions test prep for free rather than paying up to $1000 for a Kaplan or similar course or even buying a bulky, old-school prep book.
Where I come in is that the app has gotten some good press and is now in need of greater content to move the app forward. Turns out they need some teachers to write questions...and they're willing to pay.
So it looks like I have a little something to do this summer.
My questions probably won't be online until August or so, but feel free to check out the app.
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