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Free Math Drill Worksheets!

January 30th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Monday, January 30, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Math-Drills.com

Age Range: 5-18 (grades K-12, with parental supervision)

This ad-supported website offers thousands of free, printable math worksheets with answer keys to help students learn, practice, and master math.

When you get to the site you’ll see a welcome message.  Look at the menu located at the top of the page below the logo to access worksheets on:

  • Addition
  • Algebra
  • Decimals & Percents
  • Division
  • Fractions
  • Geometry
  • Integers
  • Measurement
  • Money
  • Multiplication
  • Powers of Ten
  • Subtraction

Click on any topic and a new page opens with a menu of worksheet options. Click on a worksheet title and a new page opens where you can print out the worksheet to use offline.

You’ll also find flash cards, holiday-themed math worksheets, games, and more! 

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Brilliant Math & Logic Games!

January 23rd, 2012

Hi!  It’s Monday, January 23, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
10 Ticks Math Games

Age Range: 6-13 (about grades 1-8, with parental supervision)

I usually don’t get caught up in the free math games that I review, but this site’s math activities were an exception. I can’t believe I spent almost an hour selecting map coordinates to find buried treasure, determining angle trajectories to obliterate alien spacecraft, and testing my speed at selecting squares and powers of two among arcade mallard ducks. Pitiful. (Just kidding.)  :)

This United Kingdom website offers a fee-based online math program, but it provides lots of free sample math and logic games that give kids practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra, and more. Plus, there are a variety of traditional games that test logic skills too.

When you get to the site, you’ll see a menu icon of featured games such as “PacAlgebra” (kinda like Pac Man) and below it an extensive A-to-Z menu that includes:

  • Alien Angles (Curses, foiled again!)
  • Backgammon (Learn to play!)
  • Bat Collector (I dare you!) 
  • Chess (Can you beat Artificial Intelligence?)
  • Draw Poker (Test probability skills!)
  • Mallard Maths – (So silly and so fun!)
  • 0X0 Algebra & Math (aka Tic-Tac-Toe using word problems)
  • Rat Splat (Random math quizzes.)
  • And many more!

Click on a game of choice and a new screen opens. Look for the “Instructions” usually located (although hard to see) in a frame near the bottom of the game screen. Then, let the games begin!  Bookmark this site to return often.

 

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Why Pluto Isn’t A Planet & Much More!

January 12th, 2012

Hi!  It’s Thursday, January 12, 2012 and time for Social Sciences at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:
Spitzer/Caltech

Age Range: 9 and up (approximately, with parental supervision)
 
My son recently posted a video on his Facebook page explaining why Pluto isn’t a planet anymore. (Once a homeschooler, always a homeschooler.) It was on YouTube, but the source was The Spitzer Science Center (sponsored by NASA and CalTech). 
 
They have a series of free multi-media videos called “Ask An Astronomer” that include brief explanations to complicated stuff by scientists. The videos use animations to illustrate the explanations. Other titles inc lude:

  • Where is the center of the universe?
  • Why is the sky blue?
  • Why aren’t there any green stars?
  • Infrared: More than your eyes can see!
  • What happens when galaxies collide?
  • What’s between the stars?
  • What will happen to Earth when the Sun dies?
  • How do you discover an asteroid?
  • How can we see a black hole?
  • What is a Brown Dwarf?

And many more! 
 
If you poke around the rest of the site you’ll find other cool videos and podcasts as well.

You may wonder why I decided to feature this science resource on “Social Sciences” day at ClickSchooling. It’s because the downsizing of Pluto was historical, and I like to encourage cross-curricular connections. Sometimes students will resist a subject like science, for example, but be fascinated by an important event in history that gently leads them to an enjoyable exploration of science. The content of this website has that potential.

And while you’re exploring, you’ll be covering a variety of “subjects” including language arts, math, science, history, social studies and more. It’s all connected!  :)

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Math Games for Grade 1-8!

January 9th, 2012

Hi! It’s Monday, January 9, 2012 and time for Math at ClickSchoooling!

Recommended Website:
MathPlay.com

Age Range: 6-14 (Grades 1-8, approximately, with parental supervision)

This is one of the best ad-supported websites with fun educational content that I’ve seen. It provides a variety of free, fun math games that help students practice their math skills from simple addition to algebraic operations with integers. 

When you get to the site you’ll see a menu of games listed by grade level from 1-8 in the middle of the screen, along with games that help kids practice:

  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Place Value
  • Integers
  • Equations

Plus there are links to printable math worksheets! 

Then, look at the menu on the left side of the screen and you’ll see the content is divided into game topics such as:

  • Math Jeopardy
  • Math Millionaire
  • Algebra Games
  • Geometry Games
  • Decimal Games
  • Fraction Games
  • Math Logic Games

And much more! Click on any game and get ready for a multi-media, interactive treat!  Bookmark this website so you can refer to it again and again as your kids learn to tackle different kinds of math skills.

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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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Pascal’s Triangle & The 12 Days of Christmas!

December 12th, 2011

Hi! It’s Monday, December 12, 2011 and time for Math at Clickschooling!

Recommended Website:
DIMACS: 12 Days of Christmas

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

This website, sponsored by Rutgers University, offers an interesting exploration of Pascal’s Triangle (used in algebra and probability) through the lyrics of the song, The Twelve Days of Christmas. (Click here to just listen to the tune and see the printed lyrics of the song.)

When you get to the site, you’ll find the lesson plan and instructions for leading your students through this fun math exercise.

If you like working with triangles, the site offers another interesting lesson plan using The Star of David.

Students can also have fun calculating the cost of purchasing the 12 items mentioned in The 12 Days of Christmas. Click here for the Lesson Plan.

Holiday Bonus! Watch a video of homeschool moms singing a humorous version of this Christmas carol retitled, The 12 Days of Homeschooling.

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