Tag: Back to School Giveaway Bash

One of the biggest expenses I remember from my college days (so many, MANY years ago!!) was purchasing TEXTBOOKS!  It always made me sick to drop so much $$ on books at the beginning of the semester.  Well CengageBrain.com has a solution to that!  Not only can you purchase textbooks there (for all ages), you can purchase e-books of many textbooks if you don’t want a hard copy, or you can also rent them.  That’s right, you can rent a textbook for a fraction of the cost of purchasing one.  When a student rents the textbook, he or she gets immediate access to the first chapter of the book in an e-book format, and then has the actual textbook shipped to him or her.  Then, when the student is done, they can print a shipping label to send the book back to CengageBrain!  Cool, huh?  As I mentioned, if you really want to OWN the textbook, you can buy thousands of titles there as well.  It’s great for homeschoolers looking for specific subjects, too!

To help defray college expenses, CengageBrain.com is offering one of our lucky readers a $150 credit!!! That can rent a lot of books!  Here’s how to enter to win:

1) Leave a comment on this blog post

2)  For an extra entry tweet about this contest on twitter with a link back to this post, then leave a separate comment with your tweet URL. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #wingiveaways in your tweet! You may copy and paste this if you wish: “Win $150 credit to @cengagebrain from @momminitup & @jennyitup enter here: http://bit.ly/d46iSs”

3) Post on Facebook about Mommin’ It Up – like our page if you haven’t already and then leave a separate comment letting us know you did so.

4) Subscribe to our blog feed and leave us a comment letting us know you did or already do.

You can enter to win this CengageBrain.com credit from ALL ELEVEN of our Back 2 School Giveaway bash blog partners!  So after you enter here, go enter at our partner’s blogs:

Balancing Beauty and Bedlam
Bargain Briana
Common Sense With Money
Coupon Cravings
Moms Need to Know
Mommy Snacks
Passion for Savings
Saving Cents with Sense
Southern Savers
Stretching a Buck

Good luck!

This and all giveaways for this promotion end Monday, August 23rd at 3 pm.  To find out more about CengageBrain, visit their website FAQs or follow them on twitte @cengagebrain.

This giveaway was sponsored by CengageBrain as part of Win Giveaways Back to School Bash. This Post was written by me and was not edited by the sponsor. Read more on our disclosure policy. Find more information on the terms for this giveaway on the Win Giveaways Facebook page.

This next giveaway is perfect for all of you who have kids in advanced math classes in high school or college – the Texas Instruments TI-Nspire Graphing Calculator – with touchpad!!

Now I’ll be honest.  I uh…haven’t taken any math classes since my freshman year of college (meeting the minimum requirements, baby!) a looooooong time ago, so I had my brother, a total genius and high school math teacher, and my nephew, a total genius and 13-year-0ld Algebra 2 student, try this out for me.  And they LOVED it!  According to my brother, “The TI-nspire is quite simply a cross between TI’s traditional graphing calculator and a very tiny laptop (with no internet access).”

Here are some of their favorite features:

• Students can save their work and transfer it to their computer to work on or print. (The computer program works exactly like the calculator!)
• The Nspire records keystrokes and displays them as they would appear in a math book. There is no more wondering “if I typed this right.”
• The screen can be split to show many aspects of the same problem – a graph, an equation, and a table, for instance – all on the same screen.
• It is useful for many, many math courses ranging from Algebra to Calculus, Statistics, and Linear Algebra.  A student can realistically use it for all of high school and college (and maybe junior high and grad school).
• You can draw geometric figures on it.  It eliminates the slight, unavoidable errors that creep into geometric constructions produced on paper.
• If you really would rather have a more traditional graphing calculator, you can get a TI-84 keypad that slips onto the Nspire.

My brother also had some tips on “What you need to know before you buy this calculator”:

• It retails for about $130; you should consider it an investment.  It helps to divide the price by the number of years of use.
• It takes a while to learn how to use.  After using TI’s other graphing calculators for twenty years, it took me awhile to find some of the keys I wanted.  Your student will need to consult the guide that comes with the calculator to use some of the more complex features.  My soon-to-be-eleven-year-old figured out how to do the basic stuff in about twenty seconds.
• You will need to break your student of an annoying habit that is sometimes encouraged by their teachers.  Hitting clear after every calculation is a very, very, very bad idea on any calculator; on the Nspire it is a tragedy.  Hitting clear hides the student’s thinking.  That’s the beauty of this calculator; if the student will cooperate, the file management system preserves the thinking.

Thanks to my brother Charles and my nephew Charles Robert for giving the TI-Nspire a whirl!  Now here’s how you can win one of these amazing machines:

1) Leave a comment on this blog post

2)  For an extra entry tweet about this contest on twitter with a link back to this post, then leave a separate comment with your tweet URL. You may copy this if you wish “Win an awesome Texas Instruments TI-Nspire calculator from @momminitup & @jennyitup #wingiveaways enter here http://bit.ly/duh1ke”

3) Post on Facebook about Mommin’ It Up – like our page if you haven’t already and then leave a separate comment on this post letting us know you did so.

4) Subscribe to our blog feed and leave us a comment letting us know you did or already do.

This and all giveaways end Monday, August 16th at 3pm EST.

This giveaway was sponsored by Texas Instruments as part of Win Giveaways Back to School Bash. This Post was written by me and was not edited by the sponsor. Read more on our disclosure policy. Find more information on the terms for this giveaway on the Win Giveaways Facebook page.

Bar S, maker of premium quality hot dogs, wants to help you with your back to school needs by giving away a $150 gift card to Staples!

Bar S products are high-quality and tasty – they even won Rachel Ray’s award for Best Franks! They also have a great Facebook page – they’ve got weekly original recipes, photos, videos fun facts and GIVEAWAYS!! Every single week they pick two “Fans of the Week” and give them free bacon. Who doesn’t love free bacon?

Free bacon isn’t all you can win, either. They’ve got their own Back to School promotion going on. Click here for a shot at the $10,000 grand prize.

But back to the subject at hand – today’s giveaway! Bar S is giving away a $150 Staples gift card and two $5 Bar S coupons.

Here’s how to enter:
1) Leave a comment on this blog post
2) For an extra entry tweet about this contest on twitter with a link back to this post, then leave a separate comment with your tweet URL. You can copy and paste this if you wish: “Enter to win a $150 Staples card from @BarSFoods & @momminitup and @jennyitup! #wingiveaways”
3) Post on Facebook about Mommin’ It Up – like our page if you haven’t already and then leave a separate comment letting us know you did so.
4) Subscribe to our blog feed and leave us a comment letting us know you did or already do.

You can enter to win this laptop from Intel from ALL ELEVEN of our Back 2 School Giveaway bash blog partners! So after you enter here, go enter at our partners’ blogs:

Balancing Beauty and Bedlam
Bargain Briana
Common Sense With Money
Coupon Cravings
Moms Need to Know
Mommy Snacks
Passion for Savings
Saving Cents with Sense
Southern Savers
Stretching a Buck

Good luck!

This and all giveaways for this promotion end Monday, August 23rd at 3 pm.

This giveaway was sponsored by Bar S as part of Win Giveaways Back to School Bash. This post was written by me and was not edited by the sponsor. Read more on our disclosure policy. Find more information on the terms for this giveaway on the Win Giveaways Facebook page.