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Teaching Math at Home by Sandra Kuykendall-Lombard
Integrating Math with other subjects
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HomeschoolMath.net - A math site that contains curriculum summaries and reviews for homeschool math programs, worksheet generators for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (including fractions and decimals), as well as a list of online resources for teaching ma (T)
Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies - "Math Goodies is a free math help site featuring interactive lessons, homework help, worksheets and forums! We have over 400 pages of activities for students, teachers and parents." (Y, M, O, T)
iKnowthat.com - Online math games for ages 2-12 from the same site that brings us reader and arts games with Leon the Chameleon. The games take a few minutes to load (usually 2 to 5 minutes), but the kids will enjoy this site. (Y,M)
Pyramid Model - From NOVA; use math in real life by building a scale model of an Egyptian pyramid (M,O)
Platonic Solids - From Enchanted Learning; Regular Polyhedra or Platonic Solids: Cube, Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron; this site has words that the spell check doesn't even recognize! (M,O)
Math Games, Activities, and Sites - From Surfin' The Net With Kids (Y, M, O, T)
Multiplication games - Find instructions for a variety of offline math games to help teach multiplication. (T)
A+ Flashcard Creator - Set the parameters and print your customized flashcards. (T)
A+ Math Games - Requires Java plug-in; hidden pictures, bingo, and concentration. (Y,M)
Math Cards - MathCards mixes the playing cards concept with voice technology to help reinforce math skills. Students get to build math equations and match numbers in a variety of formats with their equivalents. Formats include whole numbers, integers, fractions, perce (Y, M, O, T)
Mixed-Up Math - (T)
Homeschool Math - "HomeschoolMath.net is a comprehensive math resource site for homeschooling parents and teachers: find a homeschool math curriculum guide, free worksheets, math ebooks for elementary grades, an extensive link list of games, interactive tutorials & quizzes (Y,M)
Homeschool Math Curriculum Reviews - From HomeschoolMath.net, this set of reviews includes both publisher descriptions and customer reviews of the most popular homeschool math programs. (T)
Money Curriculum Unit - (M,Y)
Uncle Dan's Algebra - Homespun for Homeschoolers - A Free 180 page workbook file. To request send an email to uncledan@homespun4homeschoolers.com (O)
Jenna's Valentines - 1st grade - Estimating and graphing math activity using candy conversation hearts. (Y)
Money Matters: Become a Financial Wizard! - The Marco-Gram is a monthly publication of the MarcoPolo site, an education portal for educators, principals, and teacher-trainers. This archived issue contains links to dozens of lesson plans, activities, and websites related to financial literacy and hi (T,A)
Budgeting and Consumer Math - Practical Money Skills is a comprehensive website which includes not only resources for budgeting and consumer math, but lesson plans for teachers divided by topic and age group. Lessons (found at http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/english/teachers/) inc (T,O)
How to count to one million and beyond - If you have ever had trouble explaining the concept of large numbers to your child, this RealeBook will help them visualize the concept. There is a follow-up book with even bigger numbers at http://myrealebooks.com/194. (Y, M, O, T)
Teach R Kids Math - This site offers interactive practice for early elementary math topics including money, fractions, decimals, calendars, addition, subtraction, and more. You can browse by grade or topic. Although the site is not extensive, it is good for a little extra pr (Y,T)
Math Countdown - "Loyola University Chicago's School of Education offers a free math education Web site. The site teaches math concepts using Quicktime movies and provides printable worksheets. (Y, M, O, T)
The Math Worksheet Site - TheMathWorksheetSite.com is an online math worksheet generator where "you can create an endless supply of math worksheets. The intuitive interface gives you the ability to customize each worksheet to target a student's specific needs... The worksheets are (Y)
Natural Math - Natural Math is targeted to adults helping students with math, not to the students themselves. The multiplication helps alone will be a great help to any parent teaching the multiplication facts. (T)
FactMonster.com - Brought to you by InfoPlease.com, Fact Monster is a one stop center for information. In addition to an atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia, and almanac, Fact Monster includes over 30,000 short biographies, math helps, geography and history resources, games an (Y, M, O, T)
FunBrain.com - Billed as the Internet's #1 site for K-8 kids and teachers, FunBrain.com offers a variety of interactive online games for reading, math, logic, science, and just plain fun. There are funblogs for boys and girls as well as my favorite, online Mad Libs. By (Y,M)
Visual Math Learning - This site features a free online interactive tutorial for pre-algebra students that is rich in games, puzzles, and animated manipulatives that emphasize learning concepts by visualization. It is an excellent resource for parents and educators of students (M,O,T)
The Futures Channel - The mission of the Futures Channel is to "high quality multimedia content which educators in any setting can use to enliven curriculum, engage students and otherwise enhance the learning experience" and to "connect mathematics, science, technology and eng (M,O)
Metric Conversion - At first glance you may think that this link has taken you to the wrong page, but scroll down a bit to find both an online conversion tool, and a free downloadable (and more comprehensive) metric conversion software program. (Y, M, O, T)
Homeschooling Journey - Homeschooling Journey is full of articles on frugal ways to give your child a great education. There are over 100 free worksheets for math and language arts, lots of links to free internet resources, and more. Although the site is a blog, I recommend star (T)
Math Cats - Join the Math Cats in a land of creative, open-ended math explorations! (Y, M)
Ask Dr. Math at the Math Forum - "Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers. A searchable archive is available by level and topic, as well as summaries of Frequently Asked Questions." (Y, M, O, T)
Illuminations: Growing Patterns - Students use numbers to make growing patterns. They create, analyze, and describe growing patterns and then record them. They also analyze a special growing pattern called Pascal’s triangle. Grades 3-5 (Y)
Take Away - Students solve math problems using a subtraction chart in order to gain a deeper understanding of subtraction and how it relates to their world. Grades K-2 from Illuminations, The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (Y)
Measuring Ducks - (Y)
Numeracy Lesson with Environmental Theme - The ducks were presented with a number of obstacles that they overcame to survive. This story provides several "duck problems" that the students can use their mathematics skills to solve. (Y)
Valentine's Day Math - Several quick and easy ideas to use math with a Valentine's Day theme (Y)
Miss Rumphius children's literature Lesson Plan - (Grades PreK-5) (Y)
File Folder Game - Want a fun and effective way to review spelling words or the phonograms? All you have to do is sign up for the free spelling newsletter at All About Spelling and you can download this game. Have you heard of file folder games? They are a good way to review facts. All you need are the game board and some flashcards. You can use them to practice spelling, phonograms, math facts, geography facts, or any other subject. (Y)
Math Games - Googol Learning has put together a large list of links to some of the highest quality math games online for elementary students. While you are browsing the Googol site, check out the other free learning resources. We own one of their videos and a CD and my daughter really enjoys them. You can view some of the videos from the Multiplication Vacation video on the site. (Y,M)
Math Games - On Line Math Games (Y)
Fact Monster - Brought to you by Information Please © 2000–2007 Pearson Education, publishing as Fact Monster. Contains a Reference Desk, information on Math & Money, Science, the World, the United States, People, Computers, Sports, Word Wise, Games & Puzzles and a Home Center. (Y, M, O, T)
Whitehousekids.gov - Whitehousekids.gov is an educational opportunity for young Americans to learn about the White House and the President through fun and exciting features. (Y, M, O, T)
Noetic Learning Math Worksheet Creator - Unlimited Interactive Math Worksheets with Built-In Timer. Offers endless supply of math worksheets for free! These worksheets are interactive, self-graded and with a timer! This is a wonderful tool for home schooling children to practice math facts, computation and other math skills. My kids love the interactive nature of the worksheets. They love to do the same type of worksheets over and over again try to beat their best scores and timing. (Y, M, O, T)
GirlsGoTech.org - It's a great way to see the world. No matter where you live or what language you speak, math, science and technology play an important part in your everyday life. Take a look around, and you'll start to notice that math, science and technology are everywhere! From theGirl Scouts of the United States of America. (Y, M, O, T)
MoneySKILL® - MoneySKILL®, a personal finance course sponsored by the members of the American Financial Services Association, is a highly interactive, reality-based Internet curriculum. "Its purpose is to educate students to make informed financial decisions. The course consists of 34 "How To" modules on income, money management, spending and credit, and saving and investing. The modules are designed to be approximately 40 minutes in length." The course is free and has a built-in grading program so the educator can view the student's progress. Registration is required. Gr 9-12 (O)
Noetic Learning Math Worksheet Creator - Unlimited Interactive Math Worksheets with Built-In Timer (Y, M, O, T)
Pokemon Learning League - Standards Based Interactive Animated Lessons. Free 30 days trial. All with a Pokemon appeal in Math Science, Life Skills and Language Arts. Grades 3-5 (Y)
HippoCampus - HippoCampus provides free, multi-media content in many subjects, including Algebra, Physics, Calculus, Environmental Science, U.S. History and more. I found it to be a bit awkward to navigate around entire books on the site, but there is a wealth of information online at no cost. (Y, M, O, T)
Bob Wilcox's Mathematics Page - Featuring the official East Haven, Connecticut Math Question of the Week. (M)
Chess for Kids - A resource for chess players of all skill levels, from beginners to advanced tournament players. We provide tutorials to improve your strength, as well as chess puzzles to practice on and learn from. (Y, M, O, T)
A Different Place - Are you looking for exceptional activities for your high-ability or gifted student? Try A Different Place. A place on the Web to find differentiated activities in all content areas!! (Y, M, O, T)
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives-Measurement - Download FREE trial desktop versions using Java (Y, M, O, T)
Rainforests Math - Interactive Mathematics activities K-6 (Y M)
FunBrain.com - Chainge maker - Get as much money in your piggy bank as possible, by figuring out the correct change. (Y)
FunBrain.com - Measure It!!! - (Y)
Math Cats - convert numbers! - Converts length, weight and volume. (Y)
Measurement Games - from Gamequarium Math Home. (Y M)
Sudoku-like logic puzzle for all ages - Free puzzles for individual and classroom use. No download! Just click Print (Y, M, O, T)
Johnnie's Math Page - Enjoy the many math activities. Here are hundreds of links to the best math activities for kids on the web. There are many good challenges in the fun section. I love math puzzles and games. (Y M)
Math Vids - MathVids.com is a website dedicated to providing high quality, instructional math videos to middle school, high school, and college students at an affordable price. For a limited time, you can sign up to try MathVids out for free. (M O)
ICT Numeracy Games - Math Games for grades K-2 (Y)
Math With Me! - Math With Me! is a free educational math website for elementary age children. Our website offers math worksheets to help young children learn math the fun way. Feel free to explore our creative web site and if you like what you see join us. It's free (Y)
Apples 4 the teacher - A Fun Educational Website for Teachers and Kids. Online Games and Resources for Toddlers, Preschoolers, Kindergarten, and Elementary Students. Kid Safe Teacher Created Primary Website with Homeschooling Activities. (Y, M, O, T)
Super Teacher Worksheets - Free, Printable Worksheets (Y, M, O, T)
Earth Day Math: Take Your Math Outdoors! - Earth Day can be a wonderful opportunity to spend time observing nature and to gain an appreciation of the beauty of math in nature. (Y, M)
Prince Caspian Educator's Poster, Guide and Student Activities - Activities in this poster allow students to explore the worlds of Narnia and England as well as the characters in Narnia. This poster includes a student essay contest about "who is your Dr. Cornelius." Grades 4 and up (M, O, T)
Phatmath.com - FREE math homework help. Post and view math problems and solutions 24/7 in 40 math-based forums (Y, O, M, T)
Hotchalk.com - HotChalk is a learning environment for K-12 teachers, students and parents that includes a learning management system (LMS), a rich library of teacher-contributed lesson plans, premium digital content like NBC News video, and professional development for teachers in a Web-based environment. Available through any Internet browser, the HotChalk Learning Environment is an easy to use system and brings teachers, students and parents together to improve education. (Y, M, O, T)
Caribou Mysteries - "Caribou Mysteries: Science Sleuths and Detective Math" provides Middle School science and math lessons and activities about caribou. "Caribou Mysteries" was created by teachers at Randy Smith Middle School in Fairbanks, Alaska, and by biologists at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The project was funded by Toyota USA Foundation. (Y, M, O, T)
Division Chart Exercise - (Y)
Math Playground - An action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun! (Y, M, O, T)
Vectorkids - Vectorkids believes in enhancing education through technology. Their content is designed for elementary and middle school students. My favorite part is the US Capitals game to help kids learn the capitals (this was painful for us last year!), but the math games are great, too, particularly the Divisibility Rules. The site makes extensive use of Flash technology to create the games. (Y, M, O, T)