What is Max's Toolbox?

Max's Toolbox is an early childhood interface to Microsoft® Office suitable for children in grades K through 5. The flexibility of the programs makes them suitable for teaching children of all capabilities.

Max's Toolbox sits within the Microsoft® Office environment and can be shared with anyone who has Microsoft® Office.

Max's Toolbox gives children the gift of learning without boundaries. Children use these exciting programs to build new skills and use them in ever more complex ways. The fun text to speech feature lets pre-reading children join in the fun:

  • Reading
  • Maths
  • Language
  • Spelling
  • Thinking
  • Drawing
  • Technology

MaxWrite

MaxWrite has easy-to-use icons and special tools that make it fun and easy for students to express themselves on the printed page. MaxWrite also includes easy-to-use templates for invitations, cards, and letters.

Unique Features

  • series of clip art designed for younger children
  • attractive templates such as invitations and birthday cards
  • a drawing tool that lets children create their own graphics or personalise the Max's Toolbox clip art graphics
  • a Reading feature uses text to voice technology and Microsoft Agent (Peedy) to read the whole story or selected text within the opened document
  • using specially designed icons that are easy for children to identify
  • range of activities and an Insert Picture function

 

MaxCount

Students learn how to operate state-of-the-art digital and computer equipment, developing important skills in this modern-day IT economy.

Unique Features

  • Easy to create spreadsheets
  • Gives young students an easy, attractive way to learn about numbers, charts, and graphs.
  • Maths activities for counting, matching and grouping
  • Easy to create pictograms
  • A range of activities and an Insert Picture function
  • Young students learn basic skills of graphing, counting, making tables, sorting, grouping, and matching
  • Introduce students to graphing with fun, ready-to-go activities
  • Beginner database activities

 

MaxShow

MaxShow lets children create powerful Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations in an amazingly short time - presentations that would be the envy of many adults. The text-to-speech function allows them to present to non-reading friends. Children can even record their own sounds and voices.

Unique Features

  • Simple navigation makes it easy to present work to classmates, teachers, or parents
  • Emerging writers and ELL students can use MaxRecorder to record their voices to supplement their writing
  • Insert digital movies with the click of a button for captivating presentations

Sharing presentations is easy because MaxShow slide shows are creating using Microsoft PowerPoint® and can be shared with anyone who has Microsoft Office.