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 Arithmetic Problems & Puzzles
This list contains what we feel are some of the best sites for
arithmetic problems and puzzles. For a more exhaustive list, or to find
materials that fit your specific needs, search or browse
Arithmetic/Early Math
or Problems
and Puzzles in the Forum's Internet Mathematics Library.
 The ABACUS International Math Challenge
- Tivadar Divéki, Grace Church School
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The ABACUS International Math Challenge is open to students in three categories (grades 3-4/ages 9-10; 5-6/ages 11-12; 7-8/ages 13-14), with 8
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- A+ Math
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A site developed to help elementary school students improve their math skills interactively, offering: educational math games (learn basic operations
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- Aritm
- Mikael Bonnier
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A Java applet for simple mental calculation, drilling on basic arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, with 1- or 2-digit
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- Aunty Math
- Angela Giglio Andrews; DuPage Children's Museum
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An every-other-week math challenge for grades K-3 from "Aunty Math." Each challenge is presented in the form of a story taken from the life of Aunty
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- BEATCALC Archive
- Math Forum
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An archive of B. Clay's BEATCALC weekly mailing list. Amaze your friends by memorizing a few simple rules and doing mental math tricks faster than
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- Bricks Activity
- Suzanne Alejandre
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A classroom activity (also called the Masonry Problem; a variation on polyominoes) aligned to the NCTM and California Standards, to be explored
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- Elementary Problem of the Week
- Math Forum
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A project designed to challenge elementary students with non-routine problems and to encourage them to verbalize their solutions. From 1995 to 2002,
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- Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section
- Ron Knott
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Information about the Fibonacci series, including a brief biography of Fibonacci, the numerical properties of the series, and the ways it is
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- Flash Cards for Kids
- Donovan Follette
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Currently, Flash Cards (shareware for Windows) supports addition, subtraction, and multiplication. The addition facts are enabled in the download
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- Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
- Alexander Bogomolny
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"The peculiar beauty of Mathematics lies in deduction, in the dependency of one fact upon another. The less expected a dependency is, the simpler the
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- K-12 Teaching Materials (Mathematics Archives)
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
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An extensive list of Internet sites with significant collections of materials that can be used in the teaching of mathematics at the K-12 level.
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- Kids' Place Brain Teasers
- Houghton Mifflin Company
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Math puzzles for grades 3-4, 5-6, and 7+. You don't need to be a math whiz to solve them, just to be patient and find different ways of looking at
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- Locker Problem
- Suzanne Alejandre
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A classroom activity (also called 1000 Lockers) aligned to the NCTM and California Standards, to be explored through the use of manipulatives and a
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- Magic Squares: Math, History, Geography
- Suzanne Alejandre
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Designed primarily for middle school and older elementary school students, this Math Forum Web unit includes classroom activities for four different
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- Mathematical Games and Recreations
- MacTutor Math History Archives
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Number games, geometrical puzzles, network problems and combinatorial problems by famous mathematicians, starting around 1850 B.C. and continuing on
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- Mathematics Problem Solving Task Centres (PSTC)
- Mathematical Association of Victoria, Australia
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A site devoted to all aspects of math problem solving. Includes problems of the month for lower primary, upper primary / lower secondary and upper
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- Math for Morons Like Us
- ThinkQuest 1998
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Students talk to students about math: a site designed to help you understand math concepts better. Tutorials, sample problems, and quizzes for
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- Monthly Themes
- NRICH Maths, Univ. of Cambridge
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Past problems from the NRICH Online Maths Club, archived by month. Each problem has a symbol indicating the stage, which tells you how little or how
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- Problem Solving in Mathematics
- Jim Wilson; Univ. of Georgia
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Problems in algebra, geometry, conversion, cryptarithm, "mean," trigonometry, and a mixture of all, many with comments and solutions, from a course
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- Traffic Jam Activity
- Suzanne Alejandre
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A classroom activity (also called Hop, Skip, Jump) aligned to the NCTM and California Standards, to be explored through large movement experience,
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- The Twelve Days of Christmas and Pascal's Triangle
- Judy Brown, DIMACS and The Math Forum
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A lesson in which, using Pascal's triangle, students find the number of items given each day in the song, "The 12 Days of Christmas."
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- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Judy Brown, DIMACS and The Math Forum
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A lesson in which students find the number of items given each day in the song, "The 12 Days of Christmas." This project is designed to be used as a
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- The World of Trotter Math
- Terry Trotter, Escuela Americana, San Salvador, El Salvador
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A page of problems, problem sheets, and investigations, with links to image files of an in-class math newsletter, Trotter Math News. Of particular
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- For more, search or browse
Arithmetic/Early Math
or Problems
and Puzzles in the Forum's Internet Mathematics Library.
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