Looking for educational math sites

[colleenfs]

Julia is in 1st grade. Although she is an advanced reader (she just read "Charlotte's Web") she is struggling a bit with math. She LOVED starfall.com (http://www.starfall.com) for phonics, but I can't find something equally good for math. Any ideas? Thanks!

[brittone2]

Julia is in 1st grade. Although she is an advanced reader (she just read "Charlotte's Web") she is struggling a bit with math. She LOVED starfall.com (http://www.starfall.com) for phonics, but I can't find something equally good for math. Any ideas? Thanks!

Are you definitely looking for something computer based?

[overcome]

You will not find ANYTHING as good as Starfall.com for Math, trust me. But if you go here
http://www.pmsd.org/Default.aspx?tabid=717
click on math, there are some worthwhile sites. I like #5 (can be a bit overwhelming, but click on different games to find ones you like best), #13, and #14. The numbers in parentheses indicate grade level the site is best suited for.

My colleagues and I came up with these for our elementary school and the district liked the list so much they stuck it up on the main site.

GL

[jbrandy]

The following website has nice links to math games to practice math concepts: http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/math.shtml

I hope this link is useful to you!

[MamaKath]

games...
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/
http://funschool.kaboose.com/

Abacus skills...
http://www.alabacus.com/pageView.cfm?pageID=315

Practice sheet generator...
http://themathworksheetsite.com/

[colleenfs]

Thanks a lot!! Will check these out.

No, it doesn't have to be a website. If you have other books or activities, I'd also be interested.

[Corie]

Check out the Dollar Tree. I bought Carson quite a few Math activity
books there before Christmas.

(She asked Santa for Math books.) :)

[egoldber]

Sarah enjoys:

http://www.funbrain.com/
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

And don't forget that things like Sudoku teach math as well. :)

[mommy111]

Wow, bookmarking this thread!

[brittone2]

Okay, if you are open to non computer based stuff...
WHat about some nice math manipulatives? They feel like play, but the concepts they reinforce are math :)
We have stuff like:
abacus, tangrams, pattern blocks, geometric solids, cuisinaire rods, base 10 set, a small balance (scale), we do patterns with counting bears (alternating colors, then moving to more complex patterns and see if they can figure out what comes next). I've also done the patterning with pony beads on a super small dowel rod.

On another thread I posted about some books we are using for math games.

Family Math Night is one, I forget the other...Teaching Primary Maths I think, but I forget the author (it was from DH's university library so I'm not sure how easy it is to find...it is an old book).

[MamaKath]

I've also done the patterning with pony beads on a super small dowel rod.
This works well with pipe cleaners too, they can make bracelets.

[brittone2]

bumping this one up to add this for the parents looking for interesting math resources

This weekend I've gotten to at least look through more of my stash on loan from DH's university library.

I picked up a few books in this one series that I thought some of the parents here looking for math resources here might find interesting.

They are from the Cuisinaire Company of America, and they are called

the Super Source.

They have ones subtitled:
Snap Cubes
Geoboards
Tangrams
Pattern Blocks
Cuisinaire Rods

Lots of interesting ideas and great inspiration.

The ones I have currently are geared for k-2, but they have ones for older grades as well. I'm assuming they are still available but I haven't verified. The ones I"m looking at are copyrighted 1996.

[MamaKath]

http://www.mathusee.com/

Great materials (like a mix between Cuisinaire rods and Unifix cubes) and also some online drills. For the online drills look on the lefthand side where it says online drills and then click on the one you want.