Resources for Math
The purpose of this page is to provide parents with resources they can use to assist their child with math. Some of the resources listed below can be used to provide enrichment for your child. Parents should remind their child that math is not a race. They should take their time to solve math problems, or learn new math facts.
Primary Grades (K-2)
Activities
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Snap It: This activity helps understand addition and subtraction, This is an activity that children can work on in groups or with an adult. Each child makes a train of connecting cubes of a specified number. On the signal “Snap,” children break their trains into two parts and hold one hand behind their back. Children take turns going around the circle showing their remaining cubes. The other children work out the full number combination.
Example: if I have 8 cubes in my number train I could snap it and put 3 behind my back. I would show my group the remaining 5 cubes and they should be able to say that three are missing and that 5 and 3 make 8. One alternative is you can use Lego blocks if you do not have cubes. Another alternative is using the same coin, beads, or any object you can hold in your hand. -
How Many Are Hiding?:: This activity helps understand addition and subtraction. In this activity each child has the same number of cubes (you can substitute other objects if you do not have cubes) and a cup. They take turns hiding some of their cubes in the cup and showing the leftovers. Other children work out the answer to the question “How many are hiding,” and say the full number combination.
Example: I have 10 cubes and I decide to hide 4 in my cup. My group can see that I only have 6 cubes. Students should be able to say that I’m hiding 4 cubes and that 6 and 4 make 10. -
Go Fish Addition Style
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Sort through the deck to remove all cards that are higher than that featured number for the math game. For example, if the goal is to learn addition facts for the number seven, the game will be played with ones (aces) through sevens.
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Deal out five cards to each player and place the remaining cards in a draw pile.
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Have each player look through his or her hand of cards to find any pairs that add up to the featured number and place them face up in their discard pile. For example, if learning addition facts for the number seven, appropriate pairs would be 6+1, 5+2 or 4+3. The 7 card would also be laid aside as a correct solution that doesn’t require a pair.
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The person to the left of the dealer may now ask any other player for a card that will help create the sum required. If the person asked has the card in his hand, he must give it up to the player that made the request. A player can keep asking for cards until no further matches are able to be made, at which point he is told to Go Fish! from the draw pile and the next player takes a turn trying to make a match.
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If a player runs out of cards he can choose five more cards from the draw pile to stay in the game.
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Continue playing until all the cards in the deck have been matched into pairs. The player with the highest number of pairs at the end of the game is the winner.
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- How Close to 100?: This game is played in partners. Two children share a blank 100 grid. The first partner rolls two number dice. The numbers that come up are the numbers the child uses to make an array on the 100 grid. They can put the array anywhere on the grid, but the goal is to fill up the grid to get it as full as possible. After the player draws the array on the grid, she writes in the number sentence that describes the grid. The game ends when both players have rolled the dice and cannot put any more arrays on the grid. How close to 100 can you get?
Online Games
- Math Playground: This site contains a wide variety of games that address math topics through the use of problem-solving, real world activities and thinking games. It includes math videos as well.
- Education.com Math Games: This site is organized by topic and grade. You child can review topics in a game format through this site. You can choose a particular topic to review. There are several games for each topic to choose from.
EnVision Math 2.o Resources
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- The Math & Learning Videos 4 Kids channel contains a wide variety videos on math topics for our students. The videos are engaging for children to view.
Intermediate Grades (3-5)
Activities
- Multiplication Mix Up:
- Remove the face cards from a deck of playing cards. The ace represents one and all other cards carry their numerical values.
- Deal each player three cards.
- Each player must use two of the cards to make a two digit number.
- The third card will be the multiplier. Example, if a player draws a 1, 5, and 8, he could use the 1 and the 5 to make the two digit number 51 and multiply by 8 for a total of 408.
- The player with the largest product gets the cards.
Variation/Extension: Your child may want to create their own recording table in their math notebook to record their equations showing the strategy used to solve the equation. They may also want to use a calculator to check their work.
Online Games
- Math Playground: This site contains a wide variety of games that address math topics through the use of problem-solving, real world activities and thinking games. It includes math videos as well.
- Education.com Math Games: This site is organized by topic and grade. You child can review topics in a game format through this site. You can choose a particular topic to review. There are several games for each topic to choose from.
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Motion Math offers a suite of engaging games that explore number sense, fractions and other mathematical concepts through visual representations. You can really see the math ideas!
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Polyup is a free and open computational thinking playground that teaches math reasoning and fluency skills for 3rd - 5th students.
EnVision Math 2.o Resources
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- The Math & Learning Videos 4 Kids channel contains a wide variety videos on math topics for our students. The videos are engaging for children to view.
Middle School Grades (6-8)
Activities
Online Games
Polyup is a free and open computational thinking playground that teaches math reasoning and fluency skills for 6th - 8th grade students.
Go Math Resources
Grade 6 - Student Edition
https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/content/hsp/math/gomath2015/na/gr6/student_edition_ebook_9780544348875_/index.html
Grade 7-STUDENT EDITION
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