Recommended Website:
Math Mastery
Age Range: 8-13 (Grades 3-8)
This commercial website sells math and science products, but it also
offers a terrific archive of FREE math activities, word problems, and
games — with an emphasis on family involvement in the learning
process. (We featured this site in 2005, but it’s been totally
revamped with lots of new content added.)
When you get to the site use the menu on the left side of your screen
to explore what the site has to offer. Place your cursor over the
menu titles to see additional, descriptive drop-down menus as well.
You can enjoy:
- Check Your Skills: Cyber Challenge — a fun, fast-paced quiz (in
flash) to test addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
skills. - Daily Brains Library — a vast archive of not only math activities,
but informative word problems themed around history, geograpy,
language arts, science and health! - Family Math Activities — get math acitivities for grades 3-5 and 6-
8 that are designed for parent/child participation.
You’ll also find “Parenting Tips” with strategies for improving
learning success.
