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Brain Teasers: Improve your problem solving skills with these brain teasers (grade levels 3, 5-6, 7+)

Brain Teasers and Puzzle Web Page: Hundreds of brainteasers

CyberKids Brain Teasers: Graphic puzzles, memory games, word puzzles

Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Games Page: A site devoted to mathematics, games, and puzzles

Math Puzzles: Weekly math puzzles with solutions discussed at length each following week;examples of past puzzles include: Chaos Tiles, Dissecting Convex Figures, Domino Games, Eternity Puzzle, Fair Dice, Diamonds, Leapers, Multistate Mazes, Parity, Pentagon Tiling, Philosopher Logic, Phonetic Alphabet and Word Play


Geometry

A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry: The activities will help you get a "hands-on" feel for some of the fundamental principles of geometry. Try them all to help understand theorems and proofs.


Math Games

FunBrain Change Maker Game: Learn about making change

FunBrain Math Baseball: A game to reinforce math facts

FunBrain Power Football: A game to reinforce math facts

FunBrain Fresh Baked Fractions: A game to reinforce fractions

I Know That: Fun and interactive approach to learning math; puzzles and games

Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Games Page: A Site devoted to mathematics, games, and puzzles

Math Cats: Fun math activities for elementary and middle school students? Games on this site include an interactive multiplication table, a tessellations activity, an interactive age game and more


Math Help

All About Fractions: Dozens of colorfully illustrated pages with explanatory lessons and interactive practice games

A+ Math: Flashcards, Math Games, Homework Help

Arithmetic: A LARGE number of interactive math lessons for grades K-8; a great site to learn and practice your skills!

Ask Dr. Math for Help with Math Problems

Cool Math.com: A very helpful and interesting math site; lots of math activities

CourseServe: Allows you to select from thousands of different problem types and then automatically generates problem sheets and answers sheets which appear in your browser and can be printed; From Grade 1 through Algebra 2

Create a Graph: Online tool that allows anyone can make an area, bar, pie or line graph and print it out or download the image to a computer or disk. Older students can benefit from the link that shows how graphs can be used in probability. Younger students will quickly learn the difference between the left X and Y axis <

Flash Cards for Kids

Figure This! Math Challenges for Families: Sponsored in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, presents intriguing and challenging math activities that families can do together

Homeschool Math Resources: A guide to lots of FREE resources for homeschool math teaching. The materials here suit equally the homeschooling parent as well as the school teacher. Emphasizes are content and activities that promote understanding of concepts instead of just mechanical memorization of dry rules!

Math Fact Cafe: Provides elementary grade math fact sheets and flashcards for parents and teachers

Math Forum Elementary School: Student center, weekly and monthly math challenges, math links for students

Math Forum Middle School: Student center, weekly and monthly math challenges, math links for students

Math Help for Kids: A directory of hundreds of original articles, tips and resources. There is a kids' section containg dozens of articles written for a younger audience,

Math Goodies: Interactive Math Lessons; Puzzles; Calculators, Homework Help, and MORE

Math Mastery: A leading website dedicated to helping students, teachers and parents learn, practice, and understand essential math skills

Math Power: Information about basic math, algebra, study skills

Math Stories for Grades for 1 through 5: Over 1,000 math word problems, classified according to grades and topics.

Math Word Problems: Problems are classified into grade levels from Grade 5 to Grade 12; sets of carefully selected problems which can help you improve your problem solving skills

SchoolHouse Rock: Multiplication Rock: Music and words to songs that teach about multiplication by zero, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve

SuperKids Math Worksheet Creator: Need help learning your math facts? Make your own here at SuperKids for free! Simply select the type of problem, the maximum and minimum numbers to be used in the problems, then click on the button! A worksheet will be created to your specifications, ready to be printed for use

TeachRKidsMath: An excellent resource for students, parents and teachers. These online worksheets are self-correcting and can be used as a great reinforcement to classroom instruction or home schooling. Topics range from the simplest counting exercises for young children to sequencing to rounding to money to decimals and fractions. Each worksheet is interactive and gives the student immediate feedback. A detailed report summary is generated each time an assignment is submitted that shows the number of correct, wrong and skipped responses as well as a copy of the worksheet that shows which problems were missed. Some of the exercises are timed and all of them are self-paced, allowing the student to work on the areas of greatest need at their own speed.

Visual Math: A free interactive multimedia on-line tutorial for math students. Its first level, Numbers and Arithmetic, is a pre-Algebra course for middle-school age. Unlike traditional textbooks, Visual Math Learning is designed to run on any personal computer with a modern browser. Its user interface is designed to be simple, consisting mostly of push-buttons and objects familiar to casual computer users. The principal aim of this web site is to provide this new educational tool to parents, teachers, and students who can benefit from it. Access is free and requires no pre-registration or action other than clicking on the links. The tutorial is developed by the author using MacroMedia Flash technology. Visual Math Learning also welcomes participation and partnership with other instructional media organizations and web sites who share our goal of improving math education.

Virtual Fractions: Information, graphics and quizzes on basic concepts of fractions

Webmath:The internet math site that solves your math problems; Immediate solutions to your problems, complete with the steps. Topics range from calculating tips and figuring sale prices to factoring quadratic equations and graphing.


Math Links
Math 3- 5: LOTS of links to sites about math and mathematics
Math Magazine
Plus Magazine: A lively online vehicle for increasing public awareness of the importance of math in everyday life; also offers news, links, and puzzles for students, everything is available also in printable form
Money and Investing
Checking Up on Math: Materials which allow kids to make their own checkbooks and learn to use them

KidsBank.com: A fun place to learn about money and banking

Sense and Dollars: Learn good money management in a fun interactive way at Sense and Dollars;n find cool facts, learn what it takes to be your own boss, and use an online calculator to find out how much earnings will buy in the Earn section; After learning about earning, spending, and saving, apply your newly found skills by going on a virtual shopping spree, handling a checkbook, or planning a dream prom. A Teachers' Guide and a Parents' Guide are provided.

Young Investor: A site that allows kids to expand their knowledge of mathematic, financial, and social concepts, including: setting goals, saving and budgeting, balancing "needs" and "wants", learning to work with teams, and developing solutions. Students must sign up before playing any of the games


Patterns, Symmetry, and Tessellations

Tessellation Tutorials : Tutorials and templates for making your own tessellations

Tessellate: An interactive activity that allows you to create tessellations

Tessellation Activities: Create tessellations online

 

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