On-Line Tools for Math

In the past few blogs, I have discussed various methods and ideas to help students achieve math oriented goals.  In this post, I hope to share some websites that I find useful for elementary students.

1. This is a link to a whole group of on-line games.  http://www.rakisradresources.com/2012/07/top-10-math-websites-for-elementary.html .  It gives a brief description of the game and targeted math goals.  One I explored below was made up by teachers in Oswego School District.

2.  http://resources.oswego.org/games/  This has wonderful, easy to use, and typically very engaging math games to reinforce simple topics like basic addition.  It's free and you can readily navigate the table of listed activities to find what your elementary student may need to learn.  I played a game called Ghostblaster II and played a cute (and easy to understand game) where ghosts appeared with two numbers on their "bodies".  I had to click the z button whenever the target sum (say 9) appeared.  My 6 year-old son played it and found it to be "okay".

3.  Another site I found from Raki's Resources (see #1) was http://www.coolmath-games.com/1-number-games-01.html.  This site had many games to explore and I again went to check out the simple addition games.  The one I chose was Brainie, the first "level" had me identify simple addition problems as well as numbers.  It was fun as their was a speed component to it.

Overall, there are wonderful resources available for free on-line to help students meet their math goals!