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Free Fraction Animations, Worksheets, & Games!

October 22nd, 2012

Hi! It’s Monday, October 22, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

Visual Fractions

Age Range:  9 and up (approximately, with parental supervision)

This website provides free visual pictures, images, graphs, and animations of fractions and operations with fractions, to make them easier to understand and fun to practice.

When you get to the site, you’ll see a menu of choices that include:

  • Identify Fractions
  • Rename Fractions
  • Compare Fractions
  • Add Fractions
  • Subtract Fractions
  • Multiply Fractions
  • Divide Fractions

Click on any topic and a new page opens with instructions for how to use the animations, graphs, and number lines to learn the fraction concept. In most instances you are shown a visual image and asked to type in the corresponding fraction. Turn your speakers on to hear the various sound effects that indicate success.

You’ll also see a section called “Special Features” where you can access the “Games Page” to enhance learning. Don’t miss the terrific “Worksheets” that really demonstrate operations with fractions in an engaging way.

Parents may want to read the “About Page” for tips on how to use the site effectively.

This is a really simple and easy to use resource that will improve students’ skills in understanding fractions and their operations.

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Math with Egyptian Hieroglyphs!

September 24th, 2012

Hi! It’s Monday, September 24, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Websites:
See Below

Age Range: 8-16 (varies by website, with parental supervision)

Let’s Play Math: Egyptian Math in Hieroglyphs

This terrific blog (by a homeschool mom) offers a series of free math challenges using hieroglyphs. Designed for younger students (about 8-14), you’ll find several links to resources that include:

From the main page, you can click on links to these other fun math activities too:

  • The Secret of the Pharaoh’s Treasure
  • The Mysterious Temporal Freeze
  • The Secret of Egyptian Fractions
  • The Puzzling Pythagorean Pebbles

Want more?  Explore this website…

Eyelid Productions: Ancient Egyptian Number Hieroglyphs

This commercial and ad-supported website is a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian history that contains a small section devoted to number hieroglyphs complete with a few math problems you can solve using hieroglyphs. It’s geared for ages 10-16, and offers a fun way to learn a little math and history. Be sure to explore the rest of this site that includes information on pyramids, temples, kings and queens, mummification, etc.

 

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Free Book of Math Card Games!

June 18th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Monday, June 18, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Acing Math

Age Range:  5-13 (Grades K-8, with parental supervision)

The Positive Engagement Project sponsors this website that offers a free, downloadable and printable book of Math Games for students in kindergarten through upper elementary grades, that only requires an ordinary deck of playing cards.  Kids can learn math facts without the tedium of drill-and-practice routines.

When you get to the site (.pdf), you’ll see the book cover.  Scroll down to read an introduction and review the table of contents. The games cover core math concepts including:

  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division
  • Fractions,
  • Percents
  • Decimals
  • Patterns
  • Positive and Negative Integers
  • And more!

Select any game and you’ll find clear instructions and illustrations to on how to use the games as effective educational tools. Take a break from worksheets and use these math card games to reinforce learning in a fun way at home! 

 

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Free K-8 Math Games & Worksheets!

April 16th, 2012

Hi! It’s Monday, April 16, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Dositey.com

This ad-supported and commercial website offers some free interactive games and printable worksheets that help kids practice their math skills.

When you get to the site you’ll see a menu divided by grade level as follows:

*K-2 – Match numerals with number words and practice multiplication facts to 20.

*3-4 – Practice rounding numbers, add 3-digit numbers, and practice division.

*5-8 – Match fractions to their decimal equivalents, play games to learn the metric system, explore negative numbers, and solve some short word problems.

*All Ages – Some math games for ages 5-105.

When you click on a menu item a new page opens with a menu of the free math games. Be sure to click on “See more Math” to access the printable worksheets.

You’ll also find some free Language Arts games that help kids develop reading skills.

This site offers the free math activities with the hope that you’ll like them enough to purchase a subscription that will allow access to all of the games and resources in a given category (without any advertising).  You don’t have to purchase a thing to try the free games and worksheets.

 

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Ingenious Music & Math Activities!

February 27th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Monday, February 27, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
PhilTulga.com: Music Through The Curriculum

Age Range: All (with parental supervision)

Phil Tulga is a professional musician and music instructor. He has developed educational programs that weave music through the curriculum in almost every subject. As a complement to his music programs, Phil has developed a series of FREE, interactive math and music activities that are available on his website.

When you get to the site you will see a menu that includes:

*Math and Science – Phil takes popular math manipulatives and enhances them with rhythm and music. You’ll find:

-Unifix Cube Drum Machine – This shows students how famous composers have used repeating patterns to create music. Students can make their own rhythm or drum patterns with popular Unifix cubes.

-Musical Fraction Bars – Mathematicians like Pythagoras discovered that musical pitches are derived from fractions. In this activity, students compose and play their own songs using Musical Fraction Bars. Not only that, you’ll find instructions for how to build a homemade musical instrument that is based on these fractions.

-Pattern Block Rock – Song melodies are patterns of short and long sounds. In this activity, students compose and play their own rhythmic songs using geometric shapes.

After exploring the math activities check out the “Language Arts” section. Get Phil’s tips for how to encourage a love of reading in your child. Then, use the innovative “Cucumber Pickle Machine” to show your kids how to make rhythmic meters by combining two and three syllable words! Phil uses the musical score of “Peter and the Wolf” to teach storyline components complete with story maps!

Don’t miss “Homemade Instruments” where you’ll find directions for making your own panpipes, water bottle xylophone, tubular Glockenspiel, and melodic tube drums! 

 

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Fun Math Games in Many Languages!

February 6th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Monday, February 6, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Mothmatic

Age Range: 6-10 (About grades 1-5 with parental supervision.)

This website offers colorful, animated, interactive math games to help students practice basic math equations in a multiple choice format – and in a variety of languages including German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Polish and more.

When you get to the site you’ll see a menu of math strands (displayed in English) that include:

  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division
  • Fractions

Click on any one and a new page opens where the game begins.  Randomly generated  equations are displayed on the screen and the player selects the correct answer. If the player guesses incorrectly a message appears saying, “Wrong. Try again.” If you guess correctly, you move on to the next equation until the game runs its course.

To play in an alternate language, use the horizontal menu at the bottom of the screen to make your selection. 

Note: If you click on “Digital Dialects” on the menu bar, it will open a new page where you can play games to practice foreign languages from Afrikaans to Zazaki. We’ve featured the “Digital Dialects” website previously where students can learn phrases, numbers, conversational words, spelling, verb conjugation and alphabets in over 50 languages of the world. 

 

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