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K-5 Math Lessons & Worksheets

November 28th, 2011

Hi!  It’s Monday, November 28, 2011 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
K5 Learning

Age Range: 5-11 (grades K-5)

K5 Learning is a company that sells a math and reading enrichment program. The company submitted their website for a ClickSchooling review because they offer a selection of free,
engaging math interactives for grades K-5 that cover:

  • Numbers and Operations
  • Measurement
  • Algebra
  • Geometry
  • Data Analysis

When you get to the site, just click on any one and a new screen opens where you can try the colorful, multi-media lesson and practice session. 

You’ll also notice that the site offers free samples of their reading programs for grades K-5 too that include phonemic awareness, phonics, sight words, reading comprehension, and
vocabulary.

But wait, there’s more! This site also offers free, printable math worksheets for grades 1-6 that include:

  • Place Value
  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Telling Time
  • Counting Money
  • Measurement
  • Multiplication
  • Roman Numerals
  • Division
  • Fractions
  • Decimals
  • Factoring
  • Exponents
  • Proportions
  • Percents
  • Circles
  • Integers

Of course, the idea in offering these free resources is to entice you to purchase the program.  However, no purchase is necessary to try the programs and print out the worksheets.

 

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Free Printable Math Worksheets & More!

November 21st, 2011

Hi!  It’s Monday, November 21, 2011 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
KidZone Math

Age Range: 4-11 (with parental supervision)

KidZone is part of the DLTK family of ad-supported, educational websites. This review focuses on the Mathematics portion of the site, where there are plenty of free math worksheets and activities to print and do. When you get to the site you’ll find: 

*Math Games – Unfortunately, the first game called “on-line timed Basic Facts” wasn’t working when we reviewed it. However, the brain teaser and mathematical magic tricks do work and are fun to try.

*Free Printable Worksheets – You can select your desired grade level, theme (farm, jungle, ocean, holidays, and more), and activity type including:

  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division
  • Geometry
  • Word Problems

Many of the worksheets are different every time they load, for virtually unlimited practice sets.

*Other Links – These lead to sections of DLTK sister sites with supplementary fun coloring pages and activities to reinforce counting, number recognition, and other early math concepts.

When you are finished, be sure to explore the other areas of this site for printable worksheets relating to Language Arts, Science, Geography, and more.

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Thanksgiving Themed Math Activities

November 14th, 2011

Hi! It’s Monday, November 14, 2011 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Thanksgiving Themed Math Activities
(See Below)

Age Range: Varies (grades 1-12 with parental supervision)

The U.S. Thanksgiving holiday will be here soon. I thought you might like to have some resources for math worksheets, problems, and puzzles themed around turkeys, pilgrims, and other seasonal icons.

*Free Thanksgiving Math Worksheets that:

  • Compare Numbers 
  • Order Numbers
  • Practice Addition (one-digit and two-digit)
  • Drill Multiplication Facts (0-12 Times Tables)

*Thanksgiving Math Worksheets and Word Problems for Grades 1-5

*Middle School & High School Math Puzzlers

*Make a Techie Turkey (using a perfect square of paper)

*5 Free, Printable Thanksgiving Mazes

Print these resources and assemble them into a booklet that the kids can do on long holiday road trips to grandma’s house.

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Math with Candy!

October 31st, 2011

Hi! It’s Monday, October 31, 2011 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Harvest Festivals and Halloween are synonymous with candy. If you’ve got extra candy around the house, try these activities using candy to learn about math.

Recommended Websites:
See Below

Age Range: All (Most of the activities are for grades K-8, but fun for all. Some of these websites are ad-supported. Parental supervision required.)

Candy Corn Math Ideas
This website offers an article that contains all kinds of great ideas for how to use candy corn to teach math – from simple concepts for young students to more advanced math problems. In fact, the article refers to the “Internet Math Challenge From the University of Idaho” as a potentially fun math problem for geometry students. (You’ll find the solution HERE.)

Education World: 35 Chocolate Activities
Get a list of fun ideas using M&M’s, chocolate Kisses, candy bars and more to explore math, science, and language arts.

MathInvestigations.com’s Candy Math Worksheet
Use M&Ms or other candies to review estimation, grouping, addition, and graphing with this free, printable worksheet.

Dupage Children’s Museum: Halloween Candy Logic
This children’s museum offers activities with candy that improves estimation, measurement, logic, problem solving, and algebraic thinking.

Make Play Dough: Halloween Candy Math – Scroll down the page to find a list of activities you can do with an assortment of candy including setting up a candy store and making a number book. Other activities teach estimation, measurement, fractions, and more.

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Fun Math Learning Game Lab!

October 24th, 2011

Hi!  It’s Monday, October 24, 2010, and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website: Math Snacks

Age Range: 7-13 (The mathematics are designed for ages 11-13, but younger students may enjoy aspects as well.)

New Mexico State University Learning Games Lab created this site, which aims to provide “smart and yummy educational animations, mini-games, and interactive tools that help mid-school learners better understand math concepts.”

The site’s ever-growing collection of “snacks,” are highly entertaining educational movies and games that focus on specific mathematical concepts, each requiring only a small amount of time. Some of the games you’ll find include:

  • Watch the fabled Atlantis sink, thanks to a dodgeball coach who lacks a clear understanding of ratios.
  • Identify numbers that sum to ten, and decimals that sum to 1 – while driving a school bus full of monsters and deforming the neighborhood (this one you’ve got to see to believe).
  • Watch a supervillain and superhero match wits, scaling things up and down by the same factor.

There are many more as well.  Each “snack” includes guides for student and teacher, as well as transcripts of the video clips, to help solidify the concepts.

A handy reminder from the teachers’ page: “These are math snacks, not full meals. These videos are intended to be parts of larger units to teach very important math concepts.”

(Since they’re snacks, you’ll be glad to hear that they’re portable; if you have a mobile device, you can learn something new on the go. Perfect for Carschooling!)

Be sure to check out the rest of the teachers’ page for helpful hints on how to get the most benefit out of this website.

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Math on 11/11/11 – A Ones In A Life Event

October 17th, 2011

Hi!  It’s Monday, October 17, 2011 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

November 11th, 2011 will be a “Ones In A Lifetime Event.”  It’s the only date that can be represented by six identical digits as 11/11/11, and it only comes around once every hundred years according to Corbin E. Covault, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, who is credited with inspiring 11/11/11 Day.

What follows is information on the event and ideas for celebration to make math fun! Mark your calendars so you won’t miss it!

Recommended Websites:
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Age Range: Varies (ALL sites require parental preview and supervision.)

OnesInALifetime.com

This website offers ideas for celebrating “The ONES In A Lifetime Event” at 11:11:11 on 11/11/11 when the time and the date are all 1. They are attempting to create a unifying global event to celebrate world peace because November 11th also happens to be Armistice Day in France (commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Versailles that ended WWI), and it is also Veterans Day in the USA and Remembrance Day in Canada that commemorate the sacrifices of those who served in armed conflicts.

This particular website (with a commercial edge) encourages people to have a party at home or in a club or restaurant, or create a community event, or participate in an online streaming party. It may inspire you to think of ways to celebrate with your family.

What has any of this got to do this math? For an answer visit these websites:

How to Interpret 11/11/11 - You see, the number eleven is the sixth prime number and there are some interesting peculiarities and folklore about it that you’ll discover at this website.

Number 11 - Wikipedia offers mathematical and scientific information about the number 11 and explains that it’s the atomic number of sodium, as well as the number of spacetime dimensions in M-theory. Scroll down the page and click on the links to articles that explain the sunspot cycle is 11 years, and Apollo 11 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon. Find out the implications of the number 11 in religion, music, sports, military, computing, and other fields.

What’s Special About The Number 11? - This site explains that 11 is the largest known “multiplicative persistence.” (You’ll find info about other unusual numbers too.)

An Easy Way to Multiply Any Number by 11 - At CuriousMath.com you can learn some simple multiplication tips using the number 11.

Play Number Twins 11 – CoolMath4Kids.com offer this interactive online math game for kids that lets them practice adding numbers that add up to 11.

Of course there are other ways to celebrate 11/11/11. Plan eleven fun activities. Dress in 11′s – wear stripes! Color with 11 crayons. Listen to 11 songs. Read 11 pages in a book. Visit 11 friends. Plant 11 seeds. Do 11 sit-ups. Give 11 gifts. Solve 11 math problems. Go on an “11 Hunt” – find eleven things, or search for the number 11 wherever you go. You can also eat meals made up of 11′s with tasty treats such as:

  • Carrot Sticks
  • Celery Sticks
  • Pretzel Sticks
  • String Cheese
  • French Fries
  • Bread Sticks

And don’t forget to look in the Asian food section of your grocery store for Pepero and Pocky. Pepero is a Korean cookie snack and Pocky is a similar Japanese treat.  Both are essentially a cookie “stick” that comes in a variety of flavors. If you hold up two Pepero or Pocky sticks they resemble the number 11. So, the clever manufacturing company successfully promoted the celebration of…

Pepero Day!
Each November 11th (11/11), Koreans exchange the cookie sticks in an observance similar to Valentine’s Day.

 

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