- 8 is Great: Math Games
Addition, multiplication, and division practice at the elementary level. Tips and tricks offered for 9 and 11 times tables, factoring a quadratic expression, and generating the Fibonacci sequence. Also includes a sudoku puzzle.
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- ABC Home Preschool - Shana Albert
Resources for homeschoolers, including Preschool Curriculum Workbooks, binders that feature a nine month-long curriculum and "use and reuse" wipe-off pages.
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- A+ Math
A site developed to help elementary school students improve their math skills interactively, offering: educational math games (learn basic operations and geometry by playing MATHO - bingo and math combined; Hidden Picture; and Concentration), Web flash
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- Arithmetic Village - Kimberly Moore
Arithmetic Village introduces number placement, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division through storybook characters Polly Plus, Linus Minus, Tina Times, and King David Divide. arithmeticvillage.com, which accompanies the author's rhyming
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- BEATCALC Archive - Math Forum
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 they can do them on a calculator. Squaring, multiplying, dividing, adding, and subtracting numbers; finding
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- Blind Childrens Center
A non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, CA (U.S.) available to blind and partially sighted children regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, religion or ability to pay. Links to programs for infants and pre-schoolers; family
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- Books By Alma.com - Alma Longsworth
Math books for use in the classroom or at home.
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- Books that Compliment the Classroom - Mary-Ellen Musacchia, Little Red Hen Press
The Jelly Bean Parade is a story for children in Pre-K-3 about how jelly beans are made. The author writes, "The information presented keeps little ones interested and active in the story. After a read aloud, students can actively engage in: color identification,
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- BrighterDiscovery.com - KW Studios, Inc.
Products for children to "reach their full potential while having fun doing it." Browse by age (from 0-12 months to 8+ years) or product type, including Activity Toys, Alphabet & Numbers, Blocks & Building Sets, Games, Puzzles & Logic, and
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- Building Blocks - Doug Clements and Julie Sarama, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Supplementary and enrichment math materials for young children. Project writings include "Mathematics in the Preschool"; "'Concrete' Manipulatives, Concrete Ideas"; "Mathematics for Young Children"; "Technology and School Change: New Lamps for Old?";
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- Classification (SMILE) - Delores B. Wilburn, Shakespeare School
A lesson designed to motivate students to understand classification, and to teach decision-making, how certain objects relate to the number system, and the meanings of some words used to express mathematical ideas. From the Patterns and Logic section
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- ClassteacherCTLS
Short instructional math videos from the YouTube channel of Classteacher Learning Systems, the makers of iPerform and other interactive classroom technology: Counting Numbers, Decimal Fractions, and more.
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- Count Down to Fall - Fran Hawk, Sherry Neidigh (ill.)
Seasonal counting fun with this picture book. This title also includes the Sylvan Dell “For Creative Minds” section with lessons like “Plant Parts,” “The Shape of It All,” and “Match the Leaves.” Check out all these activities at the book homepage, along
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- Count the Apples - simplyfluid.com
A free online learning tool that uses images of apples to help pre-schoolers
and kindergarteners learn to count up to 10 by both numbers and words. There are 4 levels of increasing difficulty for sequence and image patterns.
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- Data Gathering and Analyzing - Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: K-2
A sample chapter from
Picturing Math by Carol Otis Hurst and Rebecca Otis (SRA/McGraw-Hill, 1996, ISBN 0-02-687367-2). "When we look up information to answer a question or to formulate new questions, we are gathering and analyzing data. When we conduct
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- Developing Geometry Concepts Using Computer Programming Environments (i-Math Investigations) - Illuminations; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
An online, interactive, multimedia math investigation. Computer programming environments can be used to help children understand geometric concepts. The interactive tool in this i-Math investigation illustrates how LOGO can be used to foster creative
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- DreamBox - DreamBox Learning, Inc.
Online, standards-based math adventure games for individualized learning in kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade. See-a-lesson and register a trial account. The site also offers parents free "printables," tips, research articles, and other downloads,
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- Dr Ell's Math Blog - Sarah Loft
This is a blog about ideas for teaching math concepts to very young learners. As such, the focus is on games and hands-on work. The author also tries to keep to the use of readily available materials that cost little or nothing to obtain.
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- Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins - Mathematics - Fromboluti, Rinck; U. S. Dept. of Education
Mathematical activities for parents and their 2- to 5-year-old children, in a free printable booklet by Carol Sue Fromboluti and Natalie Rinck, edited by Diane Magarity with illustrations by Barbara Leonard Gibson. For parents and caregivers, this publication
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- Educ-Easy Books - Gisela Hausmann
The "Hands on Mathematics" CD-ROM books offer teachers hands-on exercises using household items for teaching basic mathematics. Both CD-ROM books include worksheets which can be printed off the computer. Five FREE lesson plans available for visiting
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- Elementary Problem of the Week - Math Forum
A project designed to challenge elementary students with non-routine problems and to encourage them to verbalize their solutions. From 1995 to 2002, solutions submitted from students for the Elementary Problem of the Week were answered by Visiting Math
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- Exclusive Educational Products - Exclusive Educational Products
Order math resources and manipulatives for the curriculum of Ontario, Canada, as listed by grade or by the strands of number sense, measurement, patterning and algebra, geometry, data management, and assessment. Virtual workshops include samples from
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- Exploring Data - Math Forum/USI
Pages for finding and displaying data sets, designed to support workshops on statistics given by the Math Forum for the Urban Systemic Initiative in Philadephia and San Diego. Included are: links by level to relevant statistics Standards (NCTM, California,
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- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
A site for finding federally-supported educational resources. There are subject listings (including Mathematics) and a search engine, favorite sites (reviewed by users), more sites for students, comments and feedback forms, and the opportunity to be a
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- FlashCard Magic - Caviar Software, Inc.
Timed math flashcard game software for Windows drills the four basic operations at home and at school. Based on national standards. Assesses and adapts to each student automatically. Printable report card and progress charts. Home, classroom, and enterprise
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- Flash Cards for Kids - Donovan Follette
Currently, Flash Cards (shareware for Windows) supports addition, subtraction, and multiplication. The addition facts are enabled in the download file. The subtraction and multiplication facts can be enabled with a registration fee of $12.00. (Washington
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- Free Math Worksheets - Jill Brett
Free printable math worksheets, some featuring trademarked characters such as Angry Birds and Dora the Explorer.
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- Googol Power - Susan Jarema, Googol Learning
What started as a fun way to help children learn math grew into two soundtracks and a 90-minute video with puppet stars. Sound samples, video clips, and free worksheets are available on the site, as well as further information about the project. Worksheets
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- Halloween Math Word Problems - Patricia Taverna
Addition word problems with a Halloween theme, as illustrated and written by Mrs. Taverna's second grade students. Mrs. Rollman's second graders posted their own problems at http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/rollman/04/math.htm. Click and hold down over
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- Internet Lessons - Susan Boone; GirlTECH '95, CRPC, RUSMP
Lessons with an Internet component, developed for GirlTECH'95, a program funded by CRPC Rice University and the RUSMP. A Functional Housing Market asks students to search the Internet for housing prices and compare them to the area of a house, thus deriving
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- Introduction to Algebra for Primary Students - Varnelle Moore
A Web unit designed to guide young children (K-2) through an introduction to algebra. Children learn to sort, classify, and order attribute blocks by size, number, and other properties. Each lesson includes an interactive, manipulative-based project,
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- K-12 Teaching Materials (Mathematics Archives) - University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
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. Organized into categories: lesson plans, schools, software and other K-12 Internet math sites.
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- KinderIQ - Wade Luders
KinderIQ provides learning activities with immediate audio and visual feedback to help children master the early-childhood skills needed in kindergarten. The company also provides freely downloadable PDFs of worksheets, activities, and learning games:
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- Kostur's Postulate - Don Kostur
A Shockwave tool designed to teach numbers to toddlers and preschool age children.
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- Learning Disabilities Online - Audiblox
Provides a selection of articles on learning disabilities. Learn about
the symptoms, possible causes, and ways to prevent learning disorders. Audiblox sells products designed to correct learning disabilities.
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- Les jeux de Lulu, le lutin malin - Regine
Jeux, écrits en JavaScript: jeux maternelle autour du nombre, orientation, déplacement, mémoire; jeux élémentaire et plus (logique, math, orientation). JavaScript games for children.
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- Lesson Plans: Mathematics - The Educator's Reference Desk
K-12 lesson plans categorized by subject (Algebra, Applied Math, Arithmetic, Careers, Functions, Geometry, History, Measurement, Number Sense, Number Theory, Patterns, Probability, Process Skills, and Statistics), as well as links to internet sites featuring
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- Let's Count! - Cynthia Lanius
Colorful, busy (sometimes too busy for adults, but children are drawn to them) activities for learning to count. The activities can be done either on computers with Internet access (optimally), or they can be printed out and used as a paper and pencil
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- Ludo Novo - Guillermo Andres
Manipulatives designed to educate and stimulate children from ages 2-6 through the early stages of cognitive development that form the basis of logical thought and problem solving capabilities.
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- Mathematics - Junior Learning
Junior Learning's math toys, games, and other products include Monstermatics, Number Accelerator sets, and What's My Number?
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- Math Fun With Beanie Babies! - Amanda Blake, Heidi Gish, Amy Jackson, and Jessa Paschke
Find the next beanie baby in the pattern.
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- math hombre - John Golden
Golden, a math professor at Grand Valley State University (Michigan), blogs to "share my math interests on the web, post new materials for elementary, secondary and teacher ed, and vent mathematical steam when needed." Posts, which date back to April,
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- Mathlets for Teaching Elementary Mathematics - Dave Posner
Animated JavaScript applets of visual models to seed elementary students' pre-endowed "imaginations with images tailored to evoke patterns that are the basis of the elementary mathematics curriculum": base ten counting (grouping by tens, grouping tens
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- mathlibs.org - Jessika Sobanski
Practice solving arithmetic word problems in "Mad Libs" format with Shockwave; explore fractions, probability, and rotation. Also, lessons in numbers, patterns, measurement, geometry, graphing, and probability.
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- Math - PrimaryGames.com
Games and drills for very young students: Two Minute Warning (drills addition and subtraction); One Little Ball (numbers 1-5); Sammy's Shapes (geometric shapes); Take It Away (subtraction); Add 'em Up (addition).
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- Math Solutions - Marilyn Burns Education Associates
Math Solutions, founded by Marilyn Burns in 1984, designs professional development programs and publishes materials for elementary and middle-school educators. They offer free webinars for teachers, and archive past webinars. Articles by Burns and others
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- Math Solutions Newsletter - Marilyn Burns Education Associates
A free quarterly newsletter that provides up-to-date classroom activities and opportunities for year-round professional development, including five-day summer courses, as well as resources for K-8 teachers that model effective teaching and extend the
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- The Math Whisperer - April Brown
A blog that chronicles "the highs and lows of teaching, math thinking, and how technology can be incorporated into all three." Posts by Brown, who teaches second grade in Alberta, Canada, date back to September, 2011: "Technology Makes Me Giddy with Happiness,"
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- Mathworld - Matt Bowling
The author developed this math story to act as a structure for the California second grade math curriculum. He finds it to be a big motivator to kids who are not usually interested in math.
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- Mrs. Cortes' Teacher Resources - Aida Cortes
Colorful monthly math calendars, available in Spanish and English, for interactive white board use (Activeboard™ and Smartboard™). Each seasonally appropriate template, created by a first grade North Carolina teacher native to Colombia, includes
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