Thursday, September 18, 2008

Math Made Easy


Teaching Math to Young Children? Make it interactive and have fun!!!!

With the help of the Internet let kids see some beauty of mathematics and learn to like it, or at the very least, make sure they do not feel negatively about mathematics. There are a lot of interactive games and lessons available on the net. Yes, learning/teaching Math is fun and no pain!!!

APPLES4THETEACHER.COM

This page offers free Elementary and Preschool Math Activities Educational and Interactive Online Kids Math Games and Lessons.

Their Math Games include:
Geometry and Geometric Shapes Games, Interactive 100 Number Charts, Measurement Games, Money Games, Number Sense Games, Operations (+ - * ) Games - Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Telling Time Games.

The Operations section features an option to create worksheets in no time.

SCHOOL EXPRESS: Math Online or Offline

Here you will get Self-graded questions to do on-line and print, in the Online Math section. There are different levels for each operation (Addition, Multiplication, Divison and Substraction). After typing the answer you can check whether it is right or wrong.

Also, printable worksheets and answers for offline work are available in the Offline Math Section. This printable section is very user-friendly.

COOLMATH4KIDS: Learning Math the fun way

This site offers the fun way of learning math through simple games. As their banner says, "Cool math 4 kids is an amusement park of math and more - especially designed for fun, fun, FUN!".

MATH WORKSHEET SITE: Online Math Worksheet Generator

With The Math Worksheet Site you can create printable math worksheets. Every worksheet is created when you request it, so they are different every time. These worksheets are provided in PDF format. For those who have a slow internet connection or an older computer, they also provide these worksheets as printable web pages.

MATH TOOLS: Worksheets and other resources for all levels

This page has a large number of reources and articles, starting from the Pre-kindergarten level. The resource types include tools, stories, activities, etc.

Mathemania 3.0: Mac & Windows

Mathemania enables you to quickly and easily generate math fact practice sheets to print. You simply specify the operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division) and numberranges you want to cover and Mathemania generates a sheet to your specifications.

Mathemania is shareware, so you can download it for free.

Suggested Reading:
Teaching Math to Young Children by Rick Garlikov
HomeSchool Math

Tired Of Telling Stories To Your Little Ones? Give Them Audio Stories Online.



Free Audio Stories For Kids

STORYNORY: Stories for 100+ Tales

All their stories are beautifully read for you by their special story-teller, Natasha. They have adapted Greek Myths including the tale of Tory ad the wanderings of Odysseus. And the saintly stories behind some of the major holidays such as St. Patrick and St. Valentine.

CANDLELIGHT STORIES

They offer books and many free stories, movies, games, contests, and activities. There's always something fun and educational available on this site. There's also a blog area that offers news, reviews, and opinion on great web sites, stories, books, movies, games, writers and illustrators.

TALLTALESAUDIO.COM

TallTales Audio provides wholesome children’s stories. Adventures about pirates, talking animals, time travel, magic princesses, friendly ghosts and the Wild West. The site offers a lot more like story telling tips.

THE CONSCIOUS LIVING FOUNDATION: Free Audio Stories and Classics For Children

Besides the free titles, you can order others for a nominal price. They will email you our entire collection of Audio Stories and Classics for Children in a few Zip files $6.00.

Have Fun!!! Free Online Games for Kids

There are a lot of sites offer free online games for kids. A few of them are here:

Kids games - the most fun place to play online

This site offers Coordination games, Races, Puzzles and Mixed Bag. Mixed Bag is a wonderful game in which children are asked to find errors hidden in pictures, spot the difference, pair things, etc. This section is really educative.

There are 7 in the racing category, 29 in Coordination, 51 in Mixed Bag and 30 in Puzzles.

Games for Moms & Kids: KABOOSE

This site has games for kids and moms. Some of them are downloadable too. Also, this site offers tips on parenting, food, health, etc. A place for both the mom and the kid.

Color Your Imagination: KIDZPAGE

This is a free website for kids with hundreds of free kids games, puzzles, activities, coloring pages, clip art & more for children, parents, teachers. They also have free online games, puzzles and kids printables in the kids games & activities pages.

The educational games section includes Math Games, Logic Games, Language Games, Word Searches, Spot the Difference, etc.

SHOCKWAVE.COM

This is another free site with games in almost all categories. The Kids Club House there offers a new featured game every week.

SIKIDS: Sports Games for Kids

This site has all types of sports games for kids. Fun for sporty kids!

PLAY KIDS: Educational Games

This site offers educational games for kids. They include Math Games, Vocabulary Games, Alphabet Games, Memory Games, Geography & Puzzle, etc.

FunBrain: Kids Center

Here you can play educational games (math, grammar, science) for children and kids of all ages. The games include Grammar Gorillas, Spell Check, Translator Alligator, Scramble-Saurus, Spellaroo, What's the Word, Sign the Alphabet, Word Confusion, etc.

PBSKIDS: Fun Educational Games

This site has hundreds of fun educational games. The site offers music, games and coloring. Games include Build Your Own Tree House, Let's Build a Kingdom, etc.