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The web sites listed under 'Other' support two or more of the math strands.
Alien Addition
http://arcademic.altec.org
Alien Addition provides practice in addition in an “alien invasion” theme. Invading spaceships with addition problems move down from the top of the screen toward a laser cannon on a platform at the bottom. *Optimized for use with the Nintendo Wii™ gaming system.
Count Us In
http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm
Games designed to help children understand basic math concepts.
DaisyMaths
http://130.94.234.233/
The exercises cover pre school counting, through tables, division, long multiplication and long division and fractions. The exercises are being used by pre schoolers, primary and high school students, and mature age people who want to develop basic maths skills.
Demolition Division
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com
Demolition Division helps students learn division. Tanks with division problems move toward your blaster. Answers to the problems are placed at the bottom of the blaster. Fire the blaster at the tank with the correct problem. If a tank shoots down your wall before you blast it, your blaster will be destroyed. Answers are placed in the blaster, and moved and fired by designated keyboard keys. Hits and misses are recorded at the bottom of the screen.
Drag Race Division
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com
Drag Race Division is a new multi-player racing game that allows students from anywhere in the world to race one another while practicing their division facts! How quickly the student correctly answers the multiplication problem determines how quickly the race car will go. The student with the fastest rate of correct answers will win the race. Hits and misses are recorded and displayed at the end of the game, along with the student’s rate. 1-4 players can play at once.
Etch-a-Sketch
http://www.etch-a-sketch.com/html/find123.htm
Find hidden numbers.
Flitting With Fractions
http://www.learningmedia.co.nz/staticactivities/online_activities/flitting_with_fractions
This engaging math activity asks children to identify and catch different butterflies according to specific attributes. They catch them, drop them into a jar, and then close the lid. Once this is done, they are walked through the process of identifying the fraction of butterflies that fit that criteria. Great practice for reinforcing fractions!
NEW! Give the Dog a Bone
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/DogBone/gamebone.html
My good friend, Tammy, tells me her students love this site and have become amazingly fast at finding the ten hidden bones on the 100-number square!
Grand Prix Multiplication
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com
Grand Prix Multiplication is a multi-player racing game for multiplication. Students race against each other to capture the Multiplication Cup! How quickly the student correctly answers the multiplication problem determines how quickly the race car will go. The student with the fastest rate of correct answers will win the race. Hits and misses are recorded and displayed at the end of the game, along with the student’s rate. 1-4 players can play at once.
Interactive Math Basic Facts
http://www.gpschools.org/ci/ce/elem/interact/math/facts.htm
Interactive Multiplication Games
http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm
Island Chase Subtraction
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com
Island Chase Subtraction is a multi-player racing game for subtraction. How quickly the student correctly answers the subtraction problem determines how quickly the jet ski will go. The student with the fastest rate of correct answers will win the race. Hits and misses are recorded and displayed at the end of the game, along with the student’s rate. 1-4 players can play at once.
Jet Ski Addition
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com
Island Chase Subtraction is a multi-player racing game for addition. How quickly the student correctly answers the addition problems determines how quickly the jet ski will go. The student with the fastest rate of correct answers will win the race. Hits and misses are recorded and displayed at the end of the game, along with the student’s rate. 1-4 players can play at once.
Lemonade Stand
http://www.lemonadegame.com
The goal is to make as much money as you can in 30 days by selling lemonade. You control the price and quality. Always a popular math game.
Math Magician Games
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html
Great math site for young learners to practice their basic facts. Keep a recording sheet handy for your child to keep track of how they are doing.
Mad Minute Math
http://www.scugog-net.com/room108/MadMath/mmm.htm
Choose problems and level of difficulty.
Math Mayhem
http://www.learningplanet.com/act/mayhem
Are you ready to put your math skills to the ultimate challenge? Here is your chance to compete head-to-head in this exciting, fast-paced, multi-player arena.
Megamath Tables
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/megamaths/tables.html
A fun way to practise multiplication facts.
Meteor Multiplication
http://arcademic.altec.org
Meteor Multiplication assists students in learning multiplication. Large meteors with multiplication problems in them move from all around the screen toward a large star station in the center of the screen. *Optimized for use with the Nintendo Wii™ gaming system.
Minus Mission
http://arcademic.altec.org
Minus Mission provides practice in subtraction in a creeping slime theme. Large green slime at the top of the screen drips blobs with subtraction problems toward a robot at the bottom. *Optimized for use with the Nintendo Wii™ gaming system.
Odd and Even Numbers
http://www.scugog-net.com/room108/mathart/info.html
You can even add your own effects to the picture! Numbers vary from 1-1000.
Quick Flash Multiplication
http://www.multiplication.com/interactive/quickflash/flash/index.html
Spacey Math
http://www.learningplanet.com/sam/sm/index.asp
Choose +-x/ and begin a progressive practise from easy to hard. Users are asked to sign in as members or a new member which does not require any personal information or obligation.
Speed Action Grid
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SpeedGrid/Addition/urikares.html
Race against the clock in this challenging and fast paced game!
NEW! Timez Attack
http://www.bigbrainz.com
Chase dangerous monsters, find your way through dark tunnels - and learn multiplication at the same time with this free download! Timz Attack is a first person shooter game where you do multiplication instead of shooting! There is also a non-free version, which includes more levels and cooler monsters.
Memory Game
http://www.tldsb.on.ca/Schools/GrandviewPS/Room_108/pattern/memory.html
Remember and play back the order of the bird sounds.
Number Patterns
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/maths/number/10_act.shtml
Reviews what number patterns are and provides activities for practise.
Human Clock
http://www.humanclock.com/?s=1
Human Clock is a web site that shows current time with photos that change every minute of the day (all 1,440 occuring minutes on Earth!). The unique thing about all of this is how the time is actually displayed. People from all over the world send in photos showing time in remarkedly creative ways that can't even begin to be described here. Visit this site with your child, click on 'view the clock' to see the current time, and then get your own creative ideas flowing and create your own clock to send in! (I'd love to see any examples that might be submitted...)
Learn to Tell Time
http://www.netrover.com/~jjrose/time/Time.html
Drag the hands of the clock to show the correct time.
Symmetry
http://www.adrianbruce.com/Symmetry/#symindex
A comprehensive web site with many examples of symmetry.
Tangrams
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/frames_asid_268_g_1_t_3.html
Choose a shape from the bottom and then manipulate the shapes on the board to fit the pattern. This site can be challenging and will require patience and support to get started. (Click on Activities at the top of the page to find other tangram and symmetry activities for this site.)
Create a Graph
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing
The best site ever for creating and printing your own graphs. The original site is still available at the bottom of this page and will be easier for younger learners to use but they will still require support and guidance.
NEW! Furbles
http://www.ptolemy.co.uk/software/furbles
If you have a child that is learning about statistics or graphing in math, Furbles provides an excellent opportunity to work with data and create different kinds of graphs. This is definitely a worthwhile site but does require a bit of patience and playing to understand how it works. First off, you need to click on 'Launch 08 Furbles Demo' to get started. The instruction screen is fleeting so here are the basic instructions: Toggle the colour, shapes, and eyes buttons to choose which properties the Furbles in your population will have. Change the number of Furbles by clicking on the arrow buttons above and below the total on the left which makes it easy to differentiate for different levels of learners. When you are happy with your selection, click ok. If you have trouble figuring it out, ask a student. If that doesn't work, feel free to send me an email and I'll try to help out. For teachers with an interactive whiteboard, this is an excellent resource...
The sites below contain so many math activities, they didn't fit into any one category.
AAA Math
http://www.aaamath.com
Basic math skills, interactive practise, explanations, and challenge games for all grade levels and all math areas.
A+ Math
http://www.aplusmath.com
A+ Math was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.
Aunty Math
http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/index.html
Every other week, Aunt Mathilda Mathews or "Aunty Math" will present a new math challenge to the internet audience via the DuPage Children's Museum site on the World Wide Web. Each challenge is presented in the form of a story taken from the life of Aunty Math, her two nephews Barney and Danny, and her niece Gina. Aunty Math challenges present an opportunity for students in grades K-5 to use their math and thinking skills to solve various problems.
Cool Math for Kids
http://www.coolmath4kids.com
I Know That
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_Math
Lots of math practise at this site for all grades. When asked to register, choose ‘maybe later’.
i-Math Investigations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx
i-Math Investigations are online, interactive, multimedia math investigations. All i-Maths are built around interactive math Java applets, and some also include video clips. i-Math Investigations is organized according to US curriculum and grade levels but is easy to search through to find the particular skill or concept that you might be looking for.
Math is Fun
http://www.mathsisfun.com/index.htm
Math Dictionary for Kids
http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com
An animated, interactive dictionary for students which explains over 500 common mathematical terms in simple language.
Math Playground
http://www.mathplayground.com
Welcome to Math Playground, an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, watch a math video, play a logic game and have some fun!
Mathcats
http://www.mathcats.co
NEW! Mathematics in Movies
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies
This is a collection of movie clips in which mathematics appear. There are a wide range of movies highlighted so parents and teachers need to take a look to determine which would be appropriate for the age of student being considered. To see the movies larger, watch the quicktime ipod version, which are files with .m4v extension.
Mrs. Renz's Math Site
http://www.redmond.k12.or.us/patrick/renz/mathsites.htm
Finally, the ultimate interactive math site! Mrs. Renz has been collecting interactive math sites for over a year and has organized them by grade as well as by topic. It is important to note that this is a US site so curriculum will not necessarily match up. Don't assume everything under grade 3 fits with Alberta curriculum. It might be better to search by topic.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/index.html
This site contains uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials for mathematics instruction for grades K-8. This site is also based on US curriculum and grade levels but each math strand is easy to search through.
NumberNut.Com
http://www.numbernut.com
This site offers an introduction to mathematics and its variety of topics. It's not just for kids, it's for everyone... even if you aren't a number nut!
NEW! PBS KIDS Interactive Whiteboard Games
http://pbskids.org/whiteboard
The PBS KIDS Interactive Whiteboard Games collection is an outstanding collection of activities to support Language Arts, Math, Social Sciences, and the Arts. When you go to the site, you can click on the subject area and it will scroll to that particular subject area. In addition, you can also sort on title, description, level, topic, and audio by clicking on the corresponding word in the header for each subject. This PBS site offers a fun way to reinforce concepts with young learners at home as well as an excellent resource for teachers to use with their interactive whiteboards.
Rainforest Maths
http://www.rainforestmaths.com
Rainforest Maths was created by an Australian primary teacher and covers K-6 math concepts for Numbers, Algebra, Measurement, and Space. The only activities that don't work are those involving money but there are lots of metric measurement activities to make up for it! Remember, the math levels are based on Australian curriculum and don't necessarily match Alberta curriculum. Check with your child's teacher or Alberta math curriculum online if you aren't sure which activities your child should be doing. *This site is no longer free.
ThatQuiz
http://www.thatquiz.com
ThatQuiz is a free online resource for math practice and testing. The site has become popular for students who want extra math practice at home. All users have access to all of the tests without registration.
NEW! Thinking Blocks - Model Your Math Problems!
http://thinkingblocks.com
Thinking Blocks is an engaging, interactive math tool developed by classroom teachers to help students learn how to solve multistep word problems. Using brightly colored blocks, students model the relationships among the components of each word problem. With the help of a virtual teacher, students walk through a simple problem solving process and arrive at a solution. When building the models, students must identify information that is given as well as information that is unknown. Identifying and solving for an unknown quantity is a key concept in algebra. Thinking Blocks encourages students to look beyond the surface to discover the concepts and relationships that are at the core of every math problem. *Teachers... if you have access to an LCD projector or better yet, an interactive whiteboard such as a Smartboard, make sure you check out 'Model It' to write your own math problems!
NEW! World Math Day
http://www.worldmathday.com
Unite with students and schools from around the world to set a new world record! Students play against each other in mental arithmetic games in real time and the challenge is to correctly answer more than 182,445,169 questions in 48 hours. This is the third year for the challenge and it will likely run again in March 2010. Participation is free but to participate this year students must be registered by March 3.
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