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Resources to enhance your math program and improve basic math skills. Practice math facts, learn fractions, place value, money, time and more.
Creative Teaching Tips - Ideas for Teaching Money
Creative Teaching Tips, money, teaching money, counting money, coins, dollars
Creative Teaching Tips - Ideas for Teaching Fractions
Creative Teaching Tips, fractions, teaching fractions
Creative Teaching Tips - Ideas for Teaching Kids How to Tell Time
Creative Teaching Tips, telling time, teaching time, how to tell time
Quarters, Nickels, and Dimes, Oh My!
Bebb shares how she taught her children money skills by making coins, setting up a store and playing a shopping game.
Math in a Flash - Flash Cards by Edupress
Math in a Flash learning system by Edupress makes it easier for kids to learn their facts. Kids will love practicing their facts with these colorful cards.
Creative Ideas for Teaching Area and Perimeter
The actual teaching of area and perimeter is pretty easy, but understanding how they're used in real life can prove more difficult.
Creative Ideas for Teaching Fractions
Fractions are Fun! Well, once you learn them they are. Having a solid foundation of basic fraction concepts will make the advanced concepts easier to learn.
Fun and Creative Ideas for Teaching Math
Fun and creative ideas for teaching math. Forum members share ideas for teaching time, money, fractions, area and perimeter.
Creative Ideas for Teaching Money
Teaching money is the perfect candidate for hands-on learning. Get out the real thing, use play money, or even make your own, but the more realistic the better.
Creative Ideas for Teaching Time
Teaching time can be tricky and frustrating at times. But hands-on and lots of practice will help the concept stick. Judy clocks are excellent clocks for kids to use since the hour hand moves when the minute hand goes around, just like the real thing.
Enjoying Mathematics - Playing Math Games
Suggestions for helping your children enjoy mathematics and be better thinkers. Play math games as a family to sharpen skills
Enjoying Mathematics
The three most important math skills are: estimation, measuring and logic/problem solving. Before children can begin to really learn these, or any other "math skills" they first need a strong concrete understanding of math. They need real world experience, not abstractions. This requires ample time to play and fiddle and figure out how things work.
Enjoying Mathematics
Suggestions to help your children develop their mathematical skills and gain an appreciation for the fact that the world around us can be better understood and enjoyed with mathematical analysis.
Helping Your Child Learn Math
Help your child learn math with these fun activities.
Ouchless Multiplication
Ouchless Multiplication by Klutz is part of their "Wraps" Series. The color pictures, funny questions and hands-on wrapping action encourage learning and memorization. This handy book makes learning the multiplication tables fun.
Sweet Tooth Factory
This unit study on fractions takes place in the Sweet Tooth Factory. Students help the workers with various fraction tasks.
Understanding Charts and Graphs
Charts and Graphs is a topic that's covered all through school, from Kindergarten through 9th grade. I've collected some links for online lessons at different levels to help you cover this topic.
A+ Math Flashcards
Flashcards for practice - addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square roots, rounding, and more!
Abacus
The abacus is a mechanical aid used for counting. Addition, subtraction, division and multiplication can be performed on a standard abacus.
Advanced Problems
Practice with more advanced problems - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Aunty Math
This site has a new math challenge for grades K-5 every other week. Each challenge is given in the form of a story about Aunt Mathilda and her nephews and nieces.
Automath
Online practice of the number facts. Choose a skill level and you're ready to go.
Base Ten Count
This online grouping activity is based on Base Ten Math and helps children understand the concept of place value.
Famous Mathematicians
Did you know that many of the math concepts we use today were discovered by famous mathematicians centuries ago? You can learn all about them by viewing these PowerPoint presentations.
Fantastic Math Tricks
In just FIVE minutes you should learn to quickly multiply up to 20x20 in your head.  
Flashcards for Kids!
Practice your basic facts with these online flashcards.
Fractions - Food for Thought
Explore fractions on the web including vocabulary, equivalent fractions, and comparing fractions.
Free Educational Games and Flashcards
Free printable flashcards and games for learning letters and math skills. (for ages 3 and up)
Fresh Baked Fractions
The word on the street is that Fraction Jackson loves pie (pi?). Become a master pie baker.
Homework Helper
Enter your problem and your answer and find out if it is correct.
I Know That - Math
Practice math problems and see if Leon can get through another mission!
Line Jumper
Practice with number lines - jump on the right number.
Math Facts NOW!
"Math Facts NOW!" is a simple yet very effective computer program that identifies the weak areas in a child's knowledge of the basic facts of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and drills the child in parent selected areas giving increased drills in the identified weak areas. Created by a homeschooling family.
Math Mountain
Choose your level (grades 2-3 or grades 4-6) and see if you can solve the monthly problem.
Math Table
How quickly can you fill in the table? Available for addition, subtraction and multiplication.
Mathematics Computation
Math worksheets for addition, subtraction and multiplication. They are different every time you visit one.
Mathematics Problem Solving
All new weekly worksheets - use for teaching, reinforcement and review. (Grade 4-5)
Money Experience for Kids
Practice "Making Change", "Spending Money" and "Piggy Bank Breakin".
Newton's Window
This site tackles the problem of learning math, and offers real help. At Newton's Window, our purpose is to bring you into mathematics, and make you want to stay. This site has something for all ages, including a weekly math challenge, weekly SAT words and SAT math tips.
No Matter What Shape
...your fractions are in. Online fun with shapes and fractions.
Pepperoni Pie
Learn fractions, percentages and decimals with Pepperoni Pie.
Problem of the Week
McDougal Littell has a new math problem every week.
Super Kids Math Worksheet Creator
Make your own math drill worksheets for free!
The Three Little Pigs
Math problems based on The Three Little Pigs.
Time Experience for Kids
You are given two times, can you figure the difference between the two?
Visual Fractions
Java based applications using number lines to model fractions and the operations on them.
Helping Your Child Learn Math
Help your child learn math with these fun activities.

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