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Fun Math Games & Printables for Kids

March 18th, 2013

Hi!  It’s Monday, March 18, 2013 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

Kids Math Games

Age Range: 5-13 (approximately, with parental supervision)

I stumbled upon this ad-supported website that offers a wide variety of free, online, interactive math games, printable worksheets and quizzes, video tutorials and more! This colorful site is user-friendly and engaging. Most kids will be enticed to try a game or two, or three, or more. 

When you get to the site, you’ll see a brief introduction and the featured math topics that include:

  • Numbers – Fun challenges related to numbers, patterns, fractions, decimals, etc.
  • Geometry – Learn about shapes, grids, weights, angles, rotation, and more.
  • Facts – Read interesting math facts and trivia.
  • Videos – Watch educational clips that teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and more.
  • Printable Worksheets – Includes addition, multiplication, fractions, etc.
  • Pictures – See math photos, images, and diagrams.
  • Printable Quizzes – Test your knowledge of division, decimals, money, basic algebra and more!

You’ll also find logic games, math riddles, board games, and math puzzles.This is a terrific resource that will enhance learning math. Bookmark it, to return often.

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Thought-Provoking Math Activities for K-12!

February 25th, 2013

Hi!  It’s Monday, February 25, 2013 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

NRICH

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

This website, sponsored by Cambridge University, seeks to enrich math curriculum for learners of all ages by providing free, engaging, interactive math activities that provoke mathematical thinking. This isn’t about math lessons and worksheets: it’s about exploring math concepts through unusual problems to provide deeper understanding.

When you get to the website you’ll see a brief introduction and a menu that’s divided into two sections:

Student Homes – This area is divided into sections with activities for students in various grade/ability levels:

  • Lower Primary – Activities that help children understand the concept of sorting, matching, and numbers
  • Upper Primary – Explore shapes, numbers and operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), time, logic and more.
  • Lower Secondary -  Get useful insights for determining area, perimeter, and volume. Experiment with curves, triangles, and geometric reasoning.
  • Upper Secondary – Use area integrals to solve problems, explore ideas in statistics.

Teacher Homes – This area is divided into three sections with teacher information and activities for:

  • Early Years – Building the foundational understanding to develop math skills.
  • Primary Years – Activities that encourage students to work systematically to solve math problems.
  • Secondary Years – Exploring area, perimeter, shapes, volume, Pi, and Calculus to solve real world problems.

While the look of the site and the information provided is user-friendly, it’s not organized in an intuitive way. Be prepared to click around to find all of the activities and resources that are available.

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Free Valentine Math Activities!

February 11th, 2013

Hi!  It’s Monday, February 11, 2013 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Valentine’s Day is Thursday!  Here are some Valentine’s Day Math Activities:

Recommended Websites:

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Age Range: Varies (Grades K-8 approximately, with parental supervision)

Conversation Candy Hearts Math

You’ll need a box of conversation candy hearts to use this classroom activity for learning estimation, sorting, counting, addition, and graphing. At the top of the page it says this activity is for grades 8-9, but they mean ages 8-9, or about grades 2-4. This activity can be easiliy tweaked for younger children as well.

Valentine’s Day Word Problems

Word problems about the cost of candy and Valentine’s Gifts. About grades 3-5.

GoogolPower’s How To Calculate the Area of a Heart 

A terrific lesson presentation (in a downloadable pdf) on how to calculate the area of a heart shape. About grades 6-8.

Free Heart-Shaped Multiplication Flash Cards 

 Print and cut out this free set of heart-shaped flash cards to practice the times tables. Grades 3-5, approximately.

Printable Valentine Dominoes 

Dominoes are great tools to help with learning math in grades K-6. Print out this set and then use them to play Domino Math. CLICK HERE to get instructions.

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Free Interactive Math Worksheets, Flash Cards, & Quizzes!

February 4th, 2013

Hi!  It’s Monday, February 4, 2013 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

Mr. Martini’s Classroom

Age Range:  5-14 (approximately, with parental supervision)

This ad-supported website provides free, interactive math flash cards, math worksheets, quizzes, and printable math worksheets  for elementary and middle school math including:

  • Addition
  • Counting  
  • Decimals
  • Division
  • Exponents
  • Fractions
  • Geometry
  • Inequalities
  • Long Division
  • Multiplication
  • Negative Numbers
  • Order of Operations
  • Percentages
  • Place Value
  • Radicals
  • Square Roots
  • Subtraction
  • Word Problems
  • And More!

When you get to the site, you’ll see a selection of flash cards, instructions on how to use them, and a menu that is a little overwhelming.  I found it helpful to go to the “Math Teacher’s Index to see everything this site offers listed in alphabetical order. Here’s the direct link: http://www.thegreatmartinicompany.com/siteindex.html)

While the interactive flash cards are a highlight of this site, I was really pleased to see the interactive worksheets for long division, long addition, long subtraction and long multiplication as well. You can actually do the long division problems, step by step, digit by digit, and check your work online. You can set the number of digits you want to use, and then simply type in the solutions in each step of the equation. This interactive, online aspect is very engaging.

Bookmark this page for easy access to it as a fun online learning resource to complement whatever textbook or method you prefer for learning math.

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Free Online Math Games & Worksheets for K-8!

January 28th, 2013

Hi!  It’s Monday, January 28, 2013 and time for Math at ClickSchooling!

Recommended Website:

Johnny’s Math Page

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

This ad-supported website offers over 1000 free math activities, including games and worksheets for students in grades K-8.  When you get to the site just click on a math topic on the menu that includes:

*NUMBER – Includes Counting, Addition,  Subtraction, Division, Place Value, Integers, Operations, and Functions.

*GEOMETRY – Learn about Shapes, GeoBoards, Pattern Blocks, Solids and Polyhedra, Angles, Coordinates, and Transformations.

*MULTIPLICATION – Use Flash Cards and Tiles to learn the times tables, multiply multi-digit numbers, and play fun practice games.

*FRACTIONS – Learn to recognize and compare fractions, do fraction operations, explore circle fractions, and convert fractions to decimals and percentages.

*FUN – Play challenging math games and logic puzzles from an interactive abacus to Hanoi Towers and more.

*STATISTICS – Make graphs and charts to sort data.

*MEASUREMENT – Learn to tell time, weigh, and measure; use Standard Rule and Metric Rule; learn about liquid measurement, proportion and more.

*PROBABILITY – Use spinners and dice to understand chance and probability.

This is a great site to use for practicing math skills. It was designed with elementary math classroom students and homeschoolers in mind.

 

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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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