A great way to personalize your child's Little Math lessons is to add in your own media sets so that your child sees and hears familiar things and people from her very own environment. Armed with your imagination, you can do many things to make keep your child interested in her math lessons – you can create or download custom Icon, Sound, and Word Sets to make courses and presets even more exciting!

To create or edit media sets, open Little Math and go to the Numbers Library screen


Depending on which media set you want to create or edit, click on Icons, Sounds or Words
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ICON SETS

Icons are pictures or shapes that are used to represent quantity, and a group of related icons is called an Icon Set. In your Numbers Library's Icons tab, you will find a list of Icon Sets that are currently available in your Little Math media library, as well as buttons along the bottom of the screen that you can use to create, edit and organize your Icon Sets:

1. New – To create a new Icon Set, just click on New, type in the name of your new Icon Set and then press Enter. After this you may add in the icon image files you want to include in this set via the Add Icon(s) button.
2. Rename – Click on Rename to change the name or title of your selected Icon Set
3. Delete – To remove an Icon Set from your library, select an Icon Set and click on Delete
4. Move (Up and Down) – Organize your icon library by selecting an Icon or Icon Set and clicking on the Up or Down arrow button to move your selection up or down the list
5. Add Icon(s) – To add an icon to your selected Icon Set, click on Add Icon(s) and a Windows Explorer window will open, where you can locate select the image file you want to use as an icon.
6. Change – If you'd like to change the image file used for an existing icon, just select the specific icon you want to replace and click on Change. In the Windows Explorer window that opens, locate and select the image file you want to use instead of the current file.
7. Open Icon Location – Click on this button and a Windows Explorer window will open, showing you the folder where
   the selected icon's image file is located (by default, icon image files are stored in your Little Math Media Library).

NOTE: Little Math supports most image file formats (such as .jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png, etc.). Your image will be automatically scaled to a suitable size when used during playback, so don't worry if your image files are too big or small!

SOUND SETS

A Sound Set is a group of recordings for the numbers (0 to 100) and math symbols (+, -, x, ÷, and =) that are played along the icon and word slides in Little Math lessons. In your Numbers Library's Sounds tab, you will find a list of Sound Sets that are currently available in your Little Math media library, as well as buttons along the bottom of the screen that you can use to create, edit and organize your Sound Sets:

1. New – To create a new Sound Set, just click on New, type in the name of your new Sound Set and then press Enter. By default, the new Sound Set will be empty (i.e., no sound files are attached to the numbers), so after this you may add in the recordings you want to include in this set via the Change button. Make sure that you've already prepared the recordings for your new Sound Set beforehand.
2. New Sound Group – A Sound Group is a collection of different Sound Sets that has a specific playback setting (e.g., Sound Sets included in a Group can be played randomly for each slide/equation OR for each playback). In effect, using Sound Groups lets you randomize the voices played along with your Courses and Presets!
   
   • To create a new Sound Group, just click on this button, type in the name of your new Sound Group and then press Enter.
   • To add an existing Sound Set to your new Sound Group, drag-and-drop your selected Sound Set into your Sound Group folder (notice that the names of Sound Sets that have been added to a Group are in italicized font).
     
   • To remove a Sound Set from a Sound Group, select the Sound Set and click on the X button or press Delete. Note that using the X and Delete buttons for Sound Group contents will not remove the Sound Set from your Little Math media library; rather, the "deleted" Sound Set will only be taken out of the Sound Group.
   • To change a Sound Group's playback setting, select the Sound Group you want to edit and select "Random each slide/equation" or "Random each playback" from the Group Settings panel on the right side of the screen.
     
3. Rename – Click on Rename to change the name or title of your selected Sound Set
4. Delete – To remove a Sound Set from your library, select a Sound Set and click on Delete
5. Move (Up and Down) – Organize your sound library by selecting a Sound Set or Sound Group and clicking on the Up or Down arrow button to move your selection up or down the list
6. Play Selected Sound – You can listen to how a specific recording sounds like by selecting a number from the Sound Set you are in and clicking on Play Selected Sound. Alternatively you can click on the small play button that corresponds to each number to preview the recording for it.
7. Save – Click on Save to finalize the changes you've made to the sound files for the Sound Set you are in.
8. Change – If you'd like to change the sound file used in an existing Sound Set, just select the specific number you want to edit and click on Change. In the Windows Explorer window that opens, locate and select the recording file you want to use instead of the current file.

WORD SETS

A Word Set is a group of words that represent numbers from 0 to 100 that are shown instead of icons in Little Math lessons. In your Numbers Library's Words tab, you will find a list of Word Sets that are currently available in your Little Math media library, as well as buttons along the bottom of the screen that you can use to create, edit and organize your Sound Sets:

1. New – To create a new Word Set, just click on New, type in the name of your new Word Set and then press Enter. By default, the new Word Set comes pre-filled with English words, so after this you may change the words via the Edit button.
2. Rename – Click on Rename to change the name or title of your selected Word Set
3. Delete – To remove a Word Set from your library, select a Word Set and click on Delete
4. Move (Up and Down) – Organize your word library by selecting a Word Set and clicking on the Up or Down arrow button to move your selection up or down the list
5. Edit – You can change the word assigned to a number in any Word Set, select the Word Set you want to edit, choose number that needs to be changed, and then click on Edit. To quickly edit numbers in a Word Set, simply select a number and double-click on it or press Enter.

After creating personal Media Sets, what's next?

Now that you're done creating your media sets, the next thing you need to do is customize your Little Math lessons so that your new media sets are used during playback! To do this, you can edit the Display Settings for individual presets or lessons via the Playback screen, or you can use the Override function to apply changes to all your lessons.

If you want to teach your child to count or do math in different languages, all you need to do is create or download a Sound Set and Word Set for your preferred language(s) and apply the media sets to your lessons using the Override function!

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