The Best of ClickSchooling!® Math
By Diane Flynn Keith
ClickSchooling is a free e-newsletter that provides a daily review
of an educational website that parents and teachers can use to help children and students learn every
subject imaginable. Diane Flynn Keith has been publishing ClickSchooling since 2000.
Here are some of the best math websites she has featured in ClickSchooling that you can use to
give your kids a world-class education.
Note: ClickSchooling makes every effort to recommend websites that have content that
is appropriate for general audiences. Because websites change, parents and teachers are STRONGLY
CAUTIONED to preview the sites for suitable content, and then explore the sites TOGETHER with their
children or students.
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Math.com - Teaching Math At Home - Parents as Math Teachers
This site is especially for parents who are teaching math at home. Learn how to teach various
math strands and concepts to even the most reluctant learners. AND there is helpful advice for
moms who don't feel all that confident teaching math as well. You will also find an extensive list
of online math courses available through various universities and curriculum suppliers. Another
helpful aspect of the site is that they offer FREE math worksheets that you can download
or print out!
Homeschool Math
A website with lots of resources and information about teaching math in grades K-12 at home.
Includes free worksheet generator and online math puzzles and games. You can purchase math
e-books here as well.
Coolmath.com
Here's an award-winning website that all ages (3-100) can use. It is animated, fun -- and academic!
Click on "Kids" for those 12 and under or click on "Ages 13-100." The
"Kids" section offers interactive math games, puzzles, an online calculator, and a
coloring book -- all of which reinforce typical math strands taught during the elementary school years.
There is also a special activities section for little mathematicians ages 3-5. The "13-100"
section offers interactive math games based on higher math usually taught at the high school level
and up. You can also find suggestions for how to succeed in math and how to find a career in
mathematics.
The Abacus ~ The Art of Calculating with Beads
This site presents complete information on the history and use of the Abacus.
Where's George?
Lots of kids get interested in math through money. Here's a site that let's you track where your dollar
bills have been. You enter the serial number of your dollar bill and get back a list of all the cities/states
where that bill has been, as well as travel time, distance and speed of each hop! You must register at
this site (free) in order to use it.
Natural Math's Multiplication: An Adventure in Number Sense
This site explains why there are really only about 13 multiplication facts that you may want to memorize --
and they include them on a credit-card-size picture that you can print and laminate for personal use.
Interactive Multiplication Table
This site offers an interactive multiplication table. You insert a multiplication problem using numbers 1-12
and the answer appears on the table - highlighting the math pattern involved.
Click on Bricks
This website is designed to teach beginning multiplication. It contains a good explanation of what multiplication
is and demonstrates the concept using pictures of colorful "bricks."
Online Division Worksheets
This website offers interactive division worksheets. Choose what type of division problem you want to create,
select the number of problems you want on your worksheet from 10 to 100, and click on "Create
Worksheet." A screen will appear with division problems. You type the answers into the boxes provided.
Chisenbop Tutorial
Learn how to use your fingers to do arithmetic calculations in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
The method called "Chisenbop" is explained simply and accompanied by clear photographs that
demonstrate the age-old process, which is similar to using an abacus. Thought to be Korean in origin, it is an
ancient method that today is sometimes referred to as "fingermath." Many kids find this method
extremely helpful, as once it is learned, it is like having a "handy" calculator with you at all times.
Curious & Useful Math
Find all kinds of quick tricks for solving certain types of arithmetic problems. For example, the Chisenbop
fingermath method for multiplying by 9's is revealed. You will also discover how to tell if you can divide a
number evenly by 2, 3, or 4 and by 15, 24, 33, and 36 too -- just by looking at it! There are all kinds of
multiplication tips and even tips for finding square roots by hand. In addition to handy, dandy tips and tricks
that make math easy without a calculator, you will find little math magic tricks to amaze your friends that you
can do with birthdates, calendar dates, people's ages, biblical numbers, etc. Finally, there are some neat math
trivia facts at this site that will make you scratch your head and say, "I didn't know that!"
Disaster Math
The U.S. Government Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA sponsors this site that is designed
to teach kids about emergency preparedness, and they have included an ingenious tie-in to math. When
you get to the site you will see a menu of math choices: Earthquake Math, Hurricane Math, Tornado Math,
Wild Fire Math, Winter Storm Math, and Flood Math. Click on any title and you will be presented with a series
of math word problems related to that particular disaster situation.
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