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Crazy 4 Math Contest |
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Kids, Share your creative math ideas! Describe how you use math in any activity you love to do—a sport, game, craft, hobby or anything else. Send in a description of the activity and how you use math. You can also include a drawing or diagram. All participants will receive an MP3 of Googol Power's new song "Crazy 4 Math" at the end. All finalists receive a copy of Googol Power's award winning CD "Multiplication Vacation". There are many other great prizes to be won including the chance to have your idea featured nationally in David M. Schwartz's "Math Moments"™ magazine column. Winners will be chosen by online voting. |
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Educational Java Programs |
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This website has interactive games to learn about money, time, patterns, fractions, the Pythagorean Theorem, and more. There are also games based on base 10 blocks, cuisenaire rods, and other manipulatives. |
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Math League's Homeschool Contests |
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Each year The Math League sponsors contests for grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Algebra Course 1, and High School. Math League's Math Contests are now available for homeschoolers. These are the same contests used by schools, in a non-competitive format for the home.
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MATHCOUNTS® |
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MATHCOUNTS® is a national math enrichment, coaching and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement through grassroots involvement in every U.S. state and territory. After several months of coaching, participating schools select students to compete individually or as part of a team in one of the more than 500 written and oral competitions held nationwide and in U.S. schools overseas. Winners at the local level proceed to state competitions, where the top 4 Mathletes® and top coach earn the right to represent their state or territory at the national level. At all levels, MATHCOUNTS challenges students' math skills, develops their self-confidence and rewards them for their achievements. Students enrolled in the 6th, 7th, or 8th grades are eligible to participate in MATHCOUNTS competitions. |
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Printable Multiplication Tables |
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You'll find free printable multiplication tables, including a 0-10 and 12 x time table, a grid chard, blank grid charts, and more. |
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Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics |
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This website features online games and interactive activities designed to help children learn and understand mathematical concepts. You can choose any grade level from pre-K to 12, and subjects including numbers and operations, algebra, geometry, measurements, data analysis, and probability. You'll find virtual peg boards, geoboards, fractals, charts, games, and much more. |
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Chalk Dust Company offers mathematics instruction on videotape to homeschooled students and a variety of other users. Textbooks used in Chalk Dust programs are published by Houghton Mifflin Company and most are authored by Ron Larson. Offers solutions guides and personal help when needed via telephone or the internet, providing a comprehensive and effective distance-learning environment.
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Horizons Mathematics is a balanced and well-organized approach to primary math composed of analytical reasoning, manipulatives (hands-on learning), memorization and drill. Every concept, from addition and subtraction to graphs and estimation, follows a deliberate pattern of introduction and gradual development to ensure student success. Fundamental concepts previously obtained in earlier units are reviewed in subsequent grade levels for true mastery. Every math concept follows a general pattern of gradual development in all seven grade levels. Analytical reasoning skills are used in daily decision making. Beginning with an introduction to each concept, Horizons reinforces thinking skills to help ensure a thorough understanding of all material. Students obtain reasoning skills from the principles taught in Horizons lessons and learn to apply these skills to real-life situations. This series is offered for grades K-6. |
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Key Curriculum Press offers the popular Key to...® Series, with the following subjects: Algebra, Decimals, Fractions, Geometry, Measurement, Metric Measurement, and Percents. They publish high school mathematics textbooks, mathematics software, supplementary materials and workbooks, videos, and manipulative materials. They also provide professional-development services to teachers across the United States. Key Curriculum Press also publishes the textbooks, "Discovering Algebra" and "Discovering Geometry," along with numerous other math textbooks through Calculus.
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Math·U·See is a manipulative based mathematics program, supplemented with video/DVD instruction. Levels include Primer, Prealgebra through Geometry, Algebra 2, and Trigonometry. |
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This series is written in a workbook format, and is one of the most affordable on the market. The series includes:
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Moving with Math® offers a program that balances manipulative-based instruction with a workbook approach. Every lesson begins with manipulative activities to develop understanding of concepts at the concrete level. Then, interactive practice, including reviews and games, ensures that students learn the skills necessary for future success. They offer a primary program for Pre-K to grade 2 and a multi-grade program for grades 1-8. |
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Professor B Enterprises provides mathematic instruction for kindergarten through seventh grades. Focuses on carefully verbalized explanations in arithmetic and algebra. |
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The Progress in Mathematics series for grades K-6 is a classroom-oriented textbook series. They balance a traditional teaching approach with the NCTM standards and develop mathematical reasoning and critical thinking skills by emphasizing problem solving. The lessons are generally clear, concise, and easy-to-follow and offer a consistent, sequential approach, integrated problem solving, lively, hands-on activities, and plenty of guided practice all help children become confident learners. Note that while the textbooks and workbooks are affordable, the teacher's editions are very pricey.
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This series of mathematics texts was written by Joseph Ray in the late 19th century. This is a reprinting of these books for a modern age, with all of them available in CD format, available for you to print at home. |
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Saxon Math is a skills-based mathematics program for grades K-12. Saxon's unique pedagogical approach is based on instruction, practice and assessment distributed across the grade level. It systematically distributes instruction and practice and assessment throughout the academic year as opposed to concentrating, or massing, the instruction, practice and assessment of related concepts into a short period of time—usually within a unit or chapter. |
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ShillerMath is a math program recommended by Montessori educators. It is based on a recognition of differing learning styles (visual, tactile, auditory, and kinesthetic). Every math concept in the curriculum is covered from all four of these identified learning styles. This program offers activities, manipulatives, audio CDs, worksheets, a parent's guide, and diagnostic tests. |
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Singapore Math is a mathematics curriculum modeled after the highly successful mathematics teaching method and texts used in Singapore. They offer math texts from pre-K to 12th grades. This series challenges children to think through and understand mathematical concepts instead of simply memorizing facts and algorithms. One of the benefits of using this program is its affordability. The textbooks are inexpensive and are reusable. The consumable workbooks are priced so that even families with multiple children using this program will find it affordable. |
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Created by a volunteer math aide in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Moneywise Kids contains two simple, fun games that will help kids understand how money works, in terms of dollar value and spending power. In the first game, Bill Maker, kids take turns rolling the dice and earning dollars that are commensurate with the numbers that come up: roll a 2 and a 6, for instance, and you get $8. As they accrue wealth with each turn, players exchange smaller bills for larger ones until someone winds up with $100. In the second game, Bill Breaker, each player starts with $100 and earns more money with each turn, but players must also draw "moneywise markers"--bills for such real-life expenses as food, medical care, and taxes--and make payments along the way. And watch out for those hard-luck chips that mean big bills. The player who collects all six markers and still has $100 in savings is the winner. The game is lively and only lightly competitive, with an accent on grasping the mysteries of dollars and cents. --Tom Keogh |
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