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Free, Fun Math Games For All Ages!

November 26th, 2012

Hi! It’s Monday, November 26, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

Sheppard Software: Math

Age Range: 4-15 (about grades PreK-10 with parental supervision)

The fabulous Sheppard Software company provides this educational website that offers a multitude of fun and engaging math games with sound and visual effects to make learning fun and more memorable. The games are designed with various difficulty levels so that players will continue to be challenged no matter how far they progress.

When you get to the site, you’ll see a menu of games that cover topics including:

  • Addition
  • Algebra
  • Counting
  • Comparing/Orderin
  • Decimals
  • Division
  • Fractions
  • Factors
  • Geometry
  • Integers
  • Measuring
  • Mixed Operations
  • Money
  • Multiplication
  • Numbers
  • Place Value
  • Round/Estimate
  • Subtraction
  • Time

Click on any topic to find an assortment of games to practice and improve mathematical skill.

Don’t miss exploring the main horizontal menu located at the top of the home page, to find interactive learning games for language arts, science, social sciences and more! You’ll want to bookmark this site to return often!

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Free Pumpkin Math Activities!

October 29th, 2012

Hi! It’s Monday, October 29, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Websites:

See Below

Age Range: Varies (with parental supervision)

It’s pumpkin season! You can use pumpkins to demonstrate many math concepts. Here are a few ideas:

Pumpkin Math

This site offers some simple math activities for grades K-2 that use a pumpkin for practicing estimation, learning about circumference, and counting.

Testing Hypotheses About Pumpkins T

his site offers a variety of free lessons using pumpkins to help students (about ages 8-14) learn about estimation and testing predictions. Do larger pumpkins have more seeds than smaller pumpkins? Is there a relationship between a pumpkin’s size and the number of seeds it contains? See all of the hands-on pumpkin math activities offered.

Pumpkin Problems

At this site you will find 4 arithmetic problems with multiple choice answers that test basic math skills.

Pumpkins for Preschoolers!

Get all kinds of ideas for learning with pumpkins (along with a recipe for my family’s favorite pumpkin bread) at this site. While I created this with preschoolers in mind — many of the activities I suggest will be fun for the whole family.

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Free, Fun Music Theory & Games!

September 22nd, 2012

Hi!  It’s Saturday, September 22, 2012 and time for Music at ClickSchooling!  

Recommended Website:

PracticeSpot.com

Age Range: All (with parental supervision)

This commercial website offers free music theory, lessons, drills, and games.  When you get to the site you’ll see some of the highlights of what is offered in this free section, and then a menu that includes:

*Practice Spot’s Rhythm Gym – Get interactive practice in counting rhythm and time signatures in written music. Click on “Quarter Note Quest” or “Eighth Note Challenge” and then follow the instructions that will take you through each exercise until you gain proficiency.  You’ll see a piece of music. The idea is to clap out the rhythm correctly.  Once you do, you can listen to a midi file and hear it played correctly.  You can also print out the music and practice on a keyboard offline. Once you’ve completed all of the exercises satisfactorily, you can print out a certificate of achievement.

*Music Crosswords – Have fun solving these puzzles that test your knowledge of music and musicians.

*Sightreading Genie – Get over 100 exercises to test your music sight reading ability.

*Chord Wizard – This interactive guide helps you find and learn all of the chords by displaying them on a keyboard.

*Note Reading Wizard – Choose between treble or bass clef, select space or line notes, and then test your skill.

There are more offerings, including “Scales Chef” – a tool to help you learn all 24 major and harmonic minor scales. Unfortunately, the “Scales Chef” wasn’t working properly when I visited the site. Nevertheless, you’ll find plenty of free content that is operating properly that will help music students and teachers alike.

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Free Math Games for Beginners & More!

August 20th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Monday, August 20, 2012, and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

ICT Games: Numeracy Games     

Age Range:  5-10 (Parental supervision required. Non-readers will need assistance.)

This ad-supported website offers a vast collection of interactive games to help young children (and beginning mathematicians of all ages) learn and practice basic math skills. When you get to the site you’ll see a brief introduction in the center screen that is followed by a menu of math “Themes” that include:

  • Number Facts
  • Money
  • Counting
  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Time  
  • Shape and Measures   
  • Place Value
  • More and Less
  • Multiplication & Rounding – and more!

Click on any theme and a new page opens with a menu of selections for that particular math theme or strand. The games are colorful and engaging. Some lack sufficient explanation on how to play – so you may need to experiment a little until you figure it out.

When you’re through with the math activities, click on “Literacy” on the menu to play a variety of games that teach and reinforce reading, spelling, vocabulary, etc.

 

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Free Challenging Online Math Curriculum!

February 13th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Monday, February 13, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Alcumus: Art of Problem Solving
 
Age Range: 10 and up (with parental supervision)
Note: Younger accelerated learners may enjoy this too.

A Maryland ClickScholar suggested this website that offers free math problems and lessons designed to challenge high-performing students.

Note: This program is currently offered for FREE. It may be that the program will eventually require a fee, so take advantage of this opportunity while you can. 

When you get to the site, you’ll find a brief introduction and detailed instructions on how to register. Registration is required to access the program, but the slight inconvenience is worth the effort to enjoy activities that cover:

  • Prealgebra
  • Counting & Probability
  • Number Theory
  • Algebra 1
  • Algebra 2

Each strand offers engaging video lessons and challenging problems for students to solve. The program automatically adjusts to the student’s ability level.

 

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Winter, Gingerbread, Snowman & Penguin Math!

December 19th, 2011

Hi!  It’s Monday, December 19, 2011 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Mathwire.com
 
Age Range: 5-13 (about grades K-8, with parental supervision)

What do winter, gingerbread, snowmen, and penguins have in common? At this website, the answer is math. This site archives an assortment of fun and challenging winter-themed math activities with illustrations, animations, and downloadable worksheets that meet the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ standards. 

When you get to the site, you’ll see “December 2011″ at the top of the page. [Note: If you visit this site after December, 2011 you may need to enter the names of the activities listed below in the search engine to find them.] Scroll down the page slightly to explore:

*Winter Math Activities – Click on the links to activities that were created for Winter in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Use an interactive program to learn about triangles as you create your own Koch Snowflake, explore making winter glyphs, make pattern block snowflakes, and discover math-literature connections.

*Gingerbread Man Math – Learn about measurement, symmetry, probability, glyphs, and play a gingerbread man game that helps students practice coordinate graphing skills. 

*Snowman Math – Enjoy snowman skip counting, estimation, symmetry, glyphs and graphing, and test your addition skills by playing “Last Snowman Standing!”

*Penguin Math – Learn about Pascal’s Triangle, play “Capture the Penguin” or a “Penguin Bowling Game” and discover coordinate graphing, use your math skills to solve problems about penguins.

There’s enough here to keep you busy all winter long.

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