What’s New

The Byrds have been busy! Here’s what’s changed recently.

April 2026

Math apps rebuilt. Goldbach, Collatz, and Palindromes are faster, cleaner, and now include step-by-step animations and useful tips.

More Broken Calculator videos. Three new ones this month: 2-Digit Addition, 2-Digit Subtraction, and Multiplication Cross Product. Students figure out what’s wrong with the calculator and then try to duplicate its mistakes.

Find grade-level activities faster. Grade badges on each activity match with the grades you teach. Plus, we added standards to 373 worksheets, puzzlements, and other resources.

Redesigned Lipogram app. Students rewrite text without a forbidden letter. The app now catches mistakes in real time, looks cleaner, and filters out words you don’t want in the classroom.

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March 2026

For You Tab. The home page now features a tab with recommendations customized to your profile.

AI-powered search. Type what you’re looking for and get real recommendations. Search “I’m reading Harry Potter with my 5th graders” and it’ll find activities that actually match. It even generates custom Not Like The Others puzzles on the fly for any book title.

Tell Your Story kit. 4 new videos for GT coordinators. Walks you through how to explain your program to parents, teachers, and administrators. Includes a ready-to-use “We Do Not / Instead We” worksheet.

Puzzlement Links archive. Three years of weekly puzzlement links, all searchable in one place. Find that one puzzle about black holes from last October.

Accessibility improvements. Screen reader support, keyboard navigation, and skip links across the site. We completed a full WCAG 2.1 AA audit and fixed what needed fixing. If your district asks about accessibility, we have the documentation.

New lesson: What’s In My Brain: Primary Sources. Students work through examples and non-examples to figure out the difference between primary and secondary sources.

Three years of Puzzlement Links. We backfilled 40+ weeks of past Puzzlement Links into the archive. If you remember a great puzzle from last year but can’t find it, it’s probably there now.

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February 2026

139 new printable worksheets. Emoji Stories, Words Within Words, What’s In My Brain, New Uses For, and Parts of Speech Party. All downloadable and ready to hand to students.

Broken Calculator Preview. A taste of things to come

Improved 62 Not Like The Others activities. Stars, planets, volcanoes, rivers, presidents, countries, and more. Each one was fact-checked. We added printable PDFs.

New Buying Guide For Districts. One page with everything a coordinator needs: how it works, what teachers get, pricing, and how to start a pilot. No more clicking around to find answers. See it here.

Group pricing calculator. Type in how many schools you have. See the price. That simple. See it here.

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January 2026

Welcome quiz. New visitors now get a quick quiz that figures out what you teach and what you’re looking for. Then it points you to the right starting place instead of dumping you on a giant homepage.

Coordinator help videos. Three new videos covering how to track teacher usage, how to roll out Byrdseed.TV to your team, and how to use it for professional development.