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4Kids Games  Various good math and language arts games.   We found these games to be loud, fast, and good.

AAA Math Many teachers think this is one of the best math sites for online learning. Covers the math content requirements of most states. You now have to scroll part way down the page to get to Grade School Levels and Arithmetic Topics. Also, note their new URL, 321know.com.

Add Like Mad Quick addition game. Given a sum, add up numbers on a matrix in the fastest time. May be addictive.

After School Mathematics "The After School Math website is a full-featured math website for grades 5-8 created by after school staff and credentialed teachers. The site consists of 10 thematic activity modules, each with at least four activities. These content standard aligned activities are fun, hands-on, and provide opportunities for small group interaction, cooperation, and student leadership." Go for it!

Algebra (Point plotting and line graphing) from FunBased Learning. "Need to learn how to graph points? Here's a free, fun, interactive game by a former Math teacher that teaches you how. Play it online right now for free." Graph Mole (three levels) and Line Gem 1 are engaging and get the job done.

All About Measurement Part of AAA Math (see above.) The name says it all! Time, temperature, distance, more.

Angles is a BBC KS2 Bitesize math lesson. It explains angles, degrees, using a protractor, perpendicular and parallel lines. There's a cute but accurate practice game and a 10 question quiz. (This is the usual Bitesize format for any subject they teach.) Excellent online lesson for 4th grade through middle school.

Aplusmath.com Flashcards and more!

Arcademic Skill Builders has math and word games ready to play online. You may recognize some games from the '80s and '90s here. Seem to remember playing them on TI-99s and Apples, and they are still good for today! Worth your time to look these over.

Avro's Adventure is a great ThinkQuest site about graphing distance, rate, and time. Covers D=RT, slope, y=mx+b, vectors, position, acceleration, velocity, and how they all interact. Thirteen different lessons explain it all very well.

Base 10 Blocks from Grain Valley School District, Missouri. This web page is a list of 15 units and tens games, mostly online.

Base 10 Box from Learning Box software. Lets primary kids click and drag base 10 sticks and base 1 pieces onto a blanket that displays the number. Very patient activity that lets kids make mistakes. Thanks Knollwood Knights.

Battleship Numberline from BrainPop - PlayPower Foundation. " Estimating numbers on a number line can be a blast! This version of "Battleship Numberline" is specifically designed to help students quickly and confidently estimate the size of different fractions. Did you know that a student's accuracy in number line estimation correlates with their standardized achievement scores? We developed this game specifically for students to build a strong and robust number sense, which is the foundation for future success in math."

Related BrainPOP Topics: Decimals; Precision and Accuracy

AND it's fun to play!!

BrainCake Welcome to the Girls' Math & Science Partnership, a program of Carnegie Science Center. Based in Pittsburgh, "BrainCake is an online sisterhood for girls 11 – 17 and stakeholders focused on girls’ inclusion in the areas of math, science, technology, and engineering. BrainCake.org features forums, programs, scholarships, virtual mentoring, girl blogs, podcasts, homework help, research and resources in a framework that integrates pop culture, science, and learning."

New SiteCookie from Gudlidotcom "Provides Free online learning games, Educational lessons plans, Kids learning games, Free games for kids, Worksheets Etc. Gudli is the best free online games website including many categories like learning games, kids games, math games, puzzle games, science games etc. which are free to use for 'Early childhood Education' and 'pre-school Education' for kids.... Gudli is a unique online experience for kids where they enjoy learning. With our interactive educational games children develop skills in maths, logic, memory, words, creativity and more. Gudli is free, full of fun, easy to use and the ideal learning space for preschoolers to second grade kids." Well, the proof of the pudding and all that: all the activities are colorful, musical, and informative. There are plenty of games and videos, this is a great learning site and will make a fine addition to Good Sites for Kids. Thank you, Neeta Saini, for the email!

Coolmath4kids Kids learn and practice real-world math. Lemonade Stand is a favorite, but there are a lot more activities, including 20 more math games.

Create a Graph from NCES KidsZone. Kids can create five types of graphs, input data, and print it out. Includes a tutorial.

spinning gold starCyberchase "an online destination designed to captivate, entertain, and improve problem-solving and math skills is now bigger and better than ever!" The Games section has over 40 good applied math games. Wow!

Netherlands flagCyberkidz "is an educational platform for boys and girls in the age of 4 till 12 years. By playing the educational games, children will practise subjects they learn in elementary school (PK-5)." The games are sorted by year from age 4 to 12, using a sliding bar. There are dozens of fun, playable games in every curriculum category, with new ones being added. This is an excellent site from the Netherlands.

Dimensions "A walk through mathematics! A film for a wide audience! Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed! Background information on every chapter: see "Details". Free download, and you can watch the films online! The film can also be ordered as a DVD. This film is being distributed under a Creative Commons license."

Elementary Math Games Here's a good list of about 30 math ed links from Brazil! You may choose English or Brazilian Portuguese. These links are broken out by area of study. There is some nice stuff in here, and there's also a commentary on teaching math. Kudos to Ms. Erin Jones for emailing us about this, and thank you, Erin, for saying nice things about all our dog photos!

Downloads  Elementary Software.com Free, good, downloadable math and grammar games! Written in Runtime Revolution.

Figure This! You should really try this site out! En ingles y tambien en el espanol. "Welcome to the Figure This! Web site! Helping families enjoy mathematics outside school through a series of fun and engaging, high-quality challenges. Figure This! demonstrates challenging middle school mathematics and emphasizes the importance of high-quality math education for all students. Figure This! Mathematical challenges for families provide interesting math challenges that middle-school students can do at home with their families." say to follow, engaging site with 80 printable math activities for you to try. Uses .pdf files. From NCTM and others.

Downloads   Flash Cards free download game for Windows only. This is a great game. "It's a simple flashcard program that covers addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You can select any one of the operations to practice on, or have the program mix them up. Though the default is 10, facts up to 100 are selectable. Version 3.0 includes the ability to practice fractions. A timer or a clock runs in the background, and a count of correct/incorrect answers is displayed. This program is freeware. Enjoy."

Fraction Frenzy from Learning Planet. Match fractions of the same value by fast clicking. Increasing levels of difficulty.

Fraction Eaters is a sort of Fraction Munchers game, like Number Munchers. Gobble up as many fractions as you can before the bad guys get you. Challenging.

Free Mathematics Books 258 math books available online for reading or downloading. We're talking high school to university-level mathematics here. "Here is an alphabetical list of online mathematics books, textbooks, monographs, lecture notes, and other mathematics related documents freely available on the web. I tried to select only the works in book formats, "real" books that are mainly in PDF format...The list is updated almost on a daily basis.."

Frog TestFrog Test (new URL) Excellent easy(?) logic game. Some kids will see solutions quickly, others not so fast. This game from Brazil is popular in China, too.

Fun Kids Online Math Games from Sheppard Software. Many action math games for elementary and middle school ages.

Fun Mathematics Lessons by Cynthia Lanius A huge, great site from a great math teacher. If this does not work, Google Cynthia Lanius.

Download GCompris Our first app from France! Available in over 40 languages (see their main page for a list). "GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10...Currently GCompris offers in excess of 80 activities and more are being developed. GCompris is free software, that means that you can adapt it to your own needs, improve it and, most importantly, share it with children everywhere." Computer discovery, color, sounds, memory, experiential, amusement, reading, mathematics, puzzles,telling time, money, and strategy games like mancala. Some of these will really make a child think! Another SourceForge find.

DownloadsGNUmber Munchers "is an educational math program based on MECC's early 80s munchers games, with new graphics." So writes Will Heublein, whose two fun and playable Number Munchers tributes are your freeware alternative to hunting down those old games and trying (usually without success) to make them run again. OK, so these are not exact clones of the MECC games, but they're close enough! We've been using them with elementary and middle school students for a few years now and they get the job done. No mouse needed, just use the arrow keys. GNUmber Munchers 2010 is an online beta version that runs fine on Internet Explorer. We wish more people would emulate Mr. Heublein and redo some of the good old MECC games! To download these games: Go to the very bottom of the GNUmber Munchers page where it says "Old Windows versions (Downloadable .exe files):" Standard version is for upper elementary/middle/jr high students, Elementary is for elementary kids. What is GNU?

DownloadsGraph 4.3 Here's a powerful upper grades' free function graphing program from Denmark (it's in English). Draw functions, draw relations, save as graphics and .pdf, evaluate, calculate, point series, trendlines, shade, label, create your own custom functions. Another SourceForge project. Made by Ivan Johansen. "The program is open source (GNU GPL) and you may give it to whomever you like."

Graph Sketcher from Interactivate. Students input equations and see what results on this interactive X Y coordinate chart. Discover slope form, y-intercepts, parabolas, anything that would work on graph paper works here.

New SiteHooda Math Games section, divided into Geometry, Arithmetic, and Logic. Two or three pages of games in each category. It's refreshing to find Logic games online! A well regarded site with good math games.

ICT Games This is an English site containing many great elementary school math games! We were impressed by the great number of games and the diversity of subject matter. Our K-1's enjoy Whack a Mole, a numeral recognition game. Thank you, James Barrett, for designing and coding all these.

Illuminations Official site of the National Council of Math Teachers (NCTM). Contains links to good, useful lesson plans, standards, tools, and web links (where the activities are!)

inch/mm Conversion Chart from Maryland Metrics. Handy chart compares inch fractions and decimals with their metric equivalents. The site also explains how to convert, and features a fast interactive conversion calculator. This is from an industrial supply firm in Maryland, where people use these tables in a real life business environment.

Informal Geometry by MathMastery Inc. Video clips and interactive, downloadable Flash videos cover Geometry in 13 progressive units from intro to perimeters up through volume. Also covers using a compass and a protractor. Elementary kids who know their times tables could use this easily. Another fine example of what you can find at Curriki!

Interactive Games 64 math games gleaned from the internet. Some already listed on this site, many that weren't. Good listing from Oswego City Schools, Oswego, New York.

Interactive Math "Welcome to the Interactive Math Site. All of the links listed on all pages are interactive (unless otherwise noted). All of the sites on this page contain a wide variety of interactive math activities at the grade levels indicated." Organized by grade level and by types of mathematics. Oodles of good math activities from the Tucson United School District.

Interactivate has 133 Java-based math Activities. You can browse by audience, subject, topic, or resource type. "Browse by audience" gets you a choice of Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, and college. The Discussion page has dialogues between a teacher and a student for 117 math topics! Each of these could be easily converted into a ready to go math lesson! The Lessons section has 90 ready to go NCTM lesson plans for print outs. The Tools section contains 44 of the activities pulled out of the Activities section. The Dictionary is a good, basic glossary of 188 math terms. The Textbooks sections is a MAJOR asset. Here, you can match ("Align") activities to chapters and lessons from textbooks from these series: Connected Math, Math Thematics, Mathematics in Context, and MathScape! Example: From MathScape Book 1, "What Does the Data Say?", Lesson 2, Name Exchange: You get two Interactivate Activities called Box Plot and Box Plot 2. The Standards section has NCTM math standards for grades 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. This was a Kim Komando Cool Site of the Day. Note: This program requires Java.

Investigations in Number, Data, and Space® This is TERC's online math games hotlist, with sections for K-1, 2-3, and 4-5 grades. Some local schools are telling parents to use only these sites. Well, our younger kids do seem to like them. Some of these sites we already have, others not. There are also curriculum and professional development links.

Johnnie's Math Page Links to Interactive Math Tools and Activities for Students and Teachers from Kindergarten through Middle School. "I mentor elementary teachers in math teaching and learning and originally built this resource for them. It was popular so I've made it available to teachers and kids across the country. If you could let students and teachers know about this resource, it would be greatly appreciated." No problem!

Just Math Tutorials YouTube videos of every middle school, high school, and many college math topics. This guy explains it all. Talk about a labor of love! Algebra, trigonometry, calculus- from scientific notation and how to add exponents to linear equations, limit problems, differential equations, statistics, SAT practice; subdivided into dozens and dozens of videos. Perhaps in the spirit of Khan Academy but only covers maths. reddit.

KS1 Bitesize Numeracy For elementary students. Eleven math games, each of three levels of difficulty. Cartoon characters, action, speech, and music. These games cover: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, ordering sequences, place value, money (British), length & weight (metric), time, 2-d and 3-d shapes & symmetry, and organizing data. Very good learning activities that our elementary students actually like! The BBC excels again!

KS3 Bitesize Maths For upper elementary through middle school/junior high in American parlance. Excellent, large group of well organized activities reviews and tests cover practically the entire math curriculum! Not cute and flashy like the KS1, but students can find anything they need to review in here. Presumes self-discipline or an attentive teacher, of course. Thank the BBC, who obviously put a lot of effort into this magnum opus.

Gold StarKhan Academy "is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere...We are complementing Salman (Khan's) ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World." 1800+ videos cover math from 1 + 1 up through differential equations; Science: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Organic Chem, Cosmology, Astronomy; History; Finance (BIG section!); Test Prep: SAT, GMAT, CAHSEE, IIT JEE. The videos are wonderful! This is amazing and FREE! (Oh, all right then! KHAAAAAAAAN!!)

Kids Numbers from KidsKnowIt. Excellent site with games (drills) that cover all the operations, plus money, telling time, intros to algebra and geometry.

Gold spinning star  Kid's Place Test Quest Houghton-Mifflin's Eduplace Site teaches kids how to take multiple choice tests! With animated coach and practice problems. Try this as a whole class session with a digital projector.

Line Jumper from Funbrain is one of our "most favoritist" number line games. It's a classic that still teaches. Five levels of difficulty ranging from 1 - 10 up into negative double digits.

Logic Zoo is a Cyberchase game from PBS Kids. Kids must place unique animals back in their (Venn diagram) zoos, classified by animal characteristics. Another thinking game and a way to introduce principles of logic.

Make A Match from Cyberchase Games Central! Find equivalent fractions in six increasingly challenging rounds! Definitely aids facts retention in kids and adults. Good sound effects.

Math Doesn't Suck and Kiss My Math. These are two books by Danica McKellar, of The Wonder Years, who grew up and earned a Bachelor's in Mathematics. Middle School girls (ages 11 to 14) like these books - some even love them. "How to survive middle school math without losing your mind or breaking a nail." Her girl to girl style resonates with many girls. The math is sound and the problem solving techniques work. Using them this very evening with 11 and 12 year olds who are struggling with Least Common Multiples and Greatest Common Factors was rewarding. As any teacher knows, seeing students light up when they "get it" can make your day! This is a non-compensated endorsement.

Math Flash Cards from Play to Learn Online interactive flash card drill kids in the four elementary operations.

MattiMath Glossary Harcourt's wonderful math glossary explains hundreds of terms with spoken pronunciations and animated shapes! Sorted by grade!

Math Hunt uses facts from Science and Social Studies to solve math problems. Neat way to integrate lessons. Also has lesson plans.

Math Lines is a unique game that makes kids think about addition while they do it. You have to add to make 10 while a conga line of single digit numbers circle a drain! If they hit the hole, you lose!

Math Magician Are you a Math Magician? Play these fast and timed flash card games and see! Upper and lower elementary operations (+ - * /) or choose mixed quizzes.

Math Open Reference "Mission: A free interactive math textbook on the web. Initially covering high-school geometry...Using interactive tools and compelling animations, it provides an engaging way to learn and explore the subject. Teachers will have new ways to teach, and the students a new way to learn that is fun and engaging." Anything you need to learn about high school geometry - plane, coordinate, or solid - it's in here! One example: Circles. Interactive with Java animations. Graphical functions explorers, too. This is absolutely amazing! Hard to believe it's free.

Math Playgound - Wow! This is an amazing math site! Math Games, Word Problems, Logic Puzzles, Math Videos! Thinking Blocks to model math problems, and wonderful online manipulatives. A simple Logo program complete with a turtle! The videos alone are worth your visit. Their video about learning the times tables is a classic, narrated by an elementary teacher who obviously loves the subject. This is a great way to spend a computer lab session, or you could assign parts of the site as homework.

Math Worksheet Center "What is Math Worksheet Center? A huge K-12 math worksheets resource! 8,000+ math worksheets. Complete math explanations! Not a plain old worksheet site! We give instructions on all core K-12 math skill areas. Math Worksheets Center is home to over 8,000 K-12 math worksheets, lessons, homework, and quizzes. We also offer over 130 free math teaching and learning articles." These are on their Mathtips page. This looks like an excellent site. You will have to subscribe for a nominal fee to get the most of what they offer.

Math worksheets generators Free! "LessonCorner's Math worksheets generators allow teachers to generate dynamic math worksheets for all grades in 4 easy steps." We checked these out and they work. You can crank out worksheets for everything from elementary addition through graphing and polynomials. Instructions are easy to follow and you can move back and forth as necessary. LessonCorner asked us to look at their free material, and we found it to be useful for teachers and homeschoolers.

MathABC.com: Free online math practice "Everyday hundreds of kids make use of MathABC.com to improve their math skills. MathABC.com is designed in such a way that each child can practice and work on improving math results. Select a grade and start practicing immediately." Kind of similar to Saxon Math but more colorful.

Mathematics from Sadlier-Oxford Educational Publishing. This is excellent. Features both online and printable activities for grades K-6, prealgebra, and Algebra 1. Also has animated tutorials for reteaching or just for watching. Practice includes skills updates (a LOT of skills updates), Math Minutes, Problem of the Day, and Math Activites (interactive.) We're not done, they also feature an audio math glossary and interactive flash math activities. This site uses popups - so don't have popups blocked.

MathsFlash "is a collection of short activities which link maths to current issues in the real world. Each activity consists of a single interactive webpage and takes 1-10 minutes to complete. A new 'question of the day' is available every weekday and new activities are uploaded each weekend. Recent uploads are shown on the main page or accessed via the category buttons above (e.g. Sport); the entire database can be searched using the archive search on the right." GREAT site from the UK. Get your kiddos' heads working!

Mission Magnetite from Cyberchase Games Central! In this 3-way matchup, you must match a percentage with its equivalent fraction and graphic, in five increasingly more challenging levels! Good learning for kids and a good refresher for adults!

Mixing in Math An after school math activity site for parents, teachers, and caregivers. "Mixing in Math activities are:

* Quick ways to mix math in to what after-school programs already do: sports, snack time, arts and crafts, playground games;
* Easy to prep;
* Easy to lead. You don't need math background or special training;
* Designed to be used with any school math curriculum and can complement homework in a variety of ways.
* Free!

New SiteMothmatic as in ARITHmatic not AUTOmatic. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions games for grades 1 - 6. Funny, cute, animated insects fill every exercise. We also liked the multiple choice format. " Free to use animated Math games for Kids." These give quite a good drill! Thank you, Craig Gibson, for your email about your site! Those insects must have been fun to draw and code!

Mudd Math Fun Facts Who says math is dry? This middle school + site's fun math facts really are fun.

Multiplication.com We love this site! "We have added over 100 new web pages. NEW lessons and instructional videos." The new Teach the Times Tables section is awesome! Lots of new things to explore! Their interactive games are constantly updated and are eminently playable. Plenty of good multiplication games, printable worksheets, resources, a lot more. Some games may also be purchased and downloaded. Stop reading this and go there! Great for homework - we know of teachers who assign this site. Honest. (Still true! as of Jan 29, 2010)

Cool  Multiflyer! Go directly to Multiflyer! Click "Skip to Multiflyer." On the next page, click Yes or No. On the next page, click How to Play if you're a newcomer. Otherwise choose Practice or Play. Make sure you check out out all options before clicking Start! Use the multiplication table grid if you need help. Click Lock All at the end of each set of problems, then blast off to explore the planets. Click Next Mission to continue. Wonderful math game! You may now buy, download, and install this game, too.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives Interactive online manipulatives for preschool through high school! Broken out by grade level and subject matrix. This is a great site!

Number Munchers  It's back! Play Number Munchers online at this tribute site! The problems are harder and the bad guys are smarter, so beware! Other than that, a faithful copy of that old 1980's MECC game. Show your kids what YOU played on Apple 2e's in computer class. Does not play well on less than Windows XP.

Number Nut is a math site from the 4Kids! people. Good information and some interesting online math activities, similar in principle to the great AAA Math site. Sorted by Basic and Advanced lessons and activities, the site covers most of the elementary math curriculum. We think it's worth your valuable time to take look here.

Number Time This fun lower elementary site has songs about math signs and number lines. Also has the Addem video series, about Addem's mathematical adventures with his ant friends. Several good math games such as "Snakes and Ladders" and "Test the Toad" (number line practice). Check the menu on the left of the page for more games and options. Part of the vast, excellent BBC Schools site.

New SitePlace Value Pirates from Mr. Nussbaum.com - "A Thousand Sites in One." Fight pirates and complete a quest by choosing the right place value for numbers! Kids can play this with or without decimals. From the creators of Tony Fraction's Pizza Shop.

New SitePlace Value to Thousands from Toon University. " It is important to understand the value of each numeral in a number. This game will test your understanding of place value to the thousands position." Three levels with a hilarious cartoon character as a helper! Excellent special effects!

Play To Learn "Online games designed to teach K-5 math skills." Interactive online games to tell time, count money, add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Thanks, "Mr. Dustin."

Probability Simulations From Maths Online: "The following Flash movies simulate typical probability experiments. Carry out the experiments in the usual way with the whole class and then run the simulations to generate a large number of trials." You plug in the numbers, the simulator runs the trials! Coin flips, spinners, a sack simulation, and rolling dice.

Pythagoras Theorem (called Pythagorean Theorem in the US) This site explains everything about the Theorem. It includes a video and links to more information. A good resource. Thanks to Darren Cross.

Roman Numerals Explains what Roman numerals are, how they work, and has a handy base 10 to Roman numeral converter!

Sampler of Mathematics for gr9-10/ 14-16yr From Curriki! "The curriculum resources contained in this folder represent a selection of high-quality materials from the Curriki repository for grades 9-10/ages 14-16 in Mathematics." There are some interactive online actitivities in here in zip file form for you to unzip; also some .pdf lesson plans and online lesson plans.

Saxon Math - Basic Facts Practice   If kids need to drill, this site is the place to do it! Very good and well organized site. Part of Saxon's always good online activities. In these times when many public schools are discouraging math drills, sites like this one become essential for your child's math education. (Please do not blame the teachers, it is not their fault.)

New SiteSkip Counting from Math is Fun. Learn to skip count by 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s, and 4s! Easy to play games let kids get lots of practice. This page explains the concept well, too. Part of a huge site we must check out!

New SiteSmart Kit School-Safe Puzzle Games "stimulate thinkng, logic, and problem solving." Here are oodles of thinking games in several categories. All have music and live action, and no violence. Make sure you understand what you are supposed to do before playing, instructions are at the bottom of each games's start page. Useful to teachers. Have fun! Thanks to Ryan at Smart-Kit for the email.

Spacey Math from Learning Planet. Choose one of the four elementary operations and go! Shoot the spaceships by answering problems correctly.

New SiteSumdog "Free Games to Make Math Fun" Suddenly very popular in local schools, our kids want to play it all the time! Log in or play as guest, "Everything on Sumdog is free except for progress reports.". Areas for kids and for their teachers. Kids start out training and progress through different levels via games. Games cover +, -, *, \. Teachers can can 1 - create a free account, then 2- Set up your school, 3- Create & print student logins, 4 - Students log in and play, 5 - Take part in local contests, 6 - Create a student activity. Pricing: "A class subscription covering 30 students costs $60 per year." They also have school discounts and district subscriptions.

Netherlands flagTables of Multiplication Fun, fast, and friendly! Students may practice one or more numbers. The timer slides from green to yellow to red, before giving the answer. "This web site will help you to learn the tables of multiplication quickly and in a fun way. Start straight away, earn some money and buy something in "the shop" of tablesofmultiplication.com." There is a good explanation for teachers about how the game works. Thanks to Frank and Peter de Witte for submitting their site! Yet another "good site" from the Netherlands.

Gold spinning star Test Quest Houghton-Mifflin's Eduplace Site teaches kids how to take multiple choice tests! With animated coach and practice problems. Try this as a whole class session with a digital projector.

That Quiz Click this link now!! Scalable, customizable quizzes in all levels of K-12 mathematics. Geography, languages, cell structure, elements, periodic tables, anatomy, conversions. Their righteous pitch: "What is ThatQuiz?

A free service for teachers who want to replace paper tests with online testing.
An online grade book providing fast analysis of class and individual student progress.
An exchange for teachers to share the resources they create.
A skills site for students, especially useful for math practice and testing.

Registration is free and teachers who register receive complete record-keeping of student grades. They have access to more precise test-generation tools, can create single tests with questions from different categories, can create matching and multiple choice questions, and can access a public test library. There is no reason for students to register, since the additional features are only useful for teachers."

Downloads  Timez Attack Now with Division drills in the new Version 4.5! "The Ultimate Multiplication Tables Video Game" This game is wonderful, and the base (2s-12s) version is a free download.  If you want the expansions you'll have to buy them. They're quite good. Everything Big Brainz says is true, kids love this game. Now with a new upgraded free version! NOTE: Our link goes ONLY to their Download page. For everything else, go to the Main Page at Bigbrainz.com.. PS: Version 4.5 really is a lot different. Our kids like it better!

New SiteTony Fraction's Pizza Shop from Mr. Nussbaum.com - "A Thousand Sites in One." Challenging fraction game, tests knowledge of equivalent fractions by mixing different sizes slices and toppings on a pizza! There is even a good video that explains how to play. This is a good learning tool for any student who is not afraid to think.

Visual Fractions Excellent interactive site for learning about fractions. Great for large group sessions using a digital projector attached to the computer.

Whatcom Community College Online Math Center Twenty-one links to free math courses, more links to resources, too. Algebra, calculus, fractals, more. Mostly this is for parents, teachers, and secondary students.

New SiteZeus' Petals from the makers of Multiflyer. Work your way through 48 levels (of multioplication facts) to restore all the petals to the flowering tree of peace! Pretty imaginative multiplication drill. Players can resume games by typing in the passwords they get when they leave. Try this one out!

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All About Money is a good, long listing of 40 money learning activities, both online and printable, with lesson plans, too. Broken into sections: Identifying Money, Counting Money, Using and Spending Money, Earning Money, Saving Money, and Additional Resources. Kudos to Interbank FX LLC of Salt Lake City, Utah for putting this together. Special thanks to Cara Chandler at Arroyo Vista Charter School in Chula Vista, California, and her 5th graders, especially Kyle!, for the email re: this site! You guys find the coolest things! Keep 'em coming!

BBC 'Money' Games "Here are eight games that use money." Specifically, pounds and pence! The coins and notes will look different to Americans, but the math is the same! Good for looking outside the box, or if you are a UK resident, a nice change from that boring US money. Try them all! Wedding Planner (fun!) is for older students, the rest are elementary age appropriate.

Change Maker from Funbrain teaches kids to make change using the count-up method. Click the coins to make change, then press Go. Thanks Mel.

Count the Money from Math Playground. Add coins to make a given amount in dollars and cents. Good graphics. Thanks Dustin.

Counting Change from Quia is a matching game. Match a money amonut ("$.25") with its coin equivalent ("2 dimes + 1 nickel"). Uses Java. Thanks Mel.

Counting Money from ABCya! Very good interactice with sounds, four different difficulty levels, US coins and dollar denominations. You can make this game give a false result if you put in coins where dollars would have fit (such as putting in four quarters instead of a dollar bill), so discourage your kids from doing that. This was actually fun to play - loved the tropical fish!

Counting Money from Harcourt. Simple but good coin counting activity.

Counting Money from Northpole. Counting coins and bills, from the excellent Christmas activity site.

Dollars and Cents from Sheppard Software is part of their big math section, which is already in our Mathematics area.

Learn To Count Money  This is Play To Learn's money counting game.

Money in Your Pocket from NumberNut.  Discusses coins, has four coin counting activities. These are great and you ought to try them.

Money Math Time! "...is a site I am working on with my son, who is 6. It started as an online version of a game he likes to play where I show him random coins and if he can tell me their value, he can keep them. This shows some coins for the visitor to add up. You get 2 chances. We are working other games to add to the site, also." Well we played these and they were fun and well made. Kudos to Matt Cleveland who emailed us about his site.

Money Topics from AAA Math. Covers coins, change, adding & subtracting money, and consumer math. Uses the typical AAA Math format.

Rich Kid Smart Kid We like this a lot! Four games that teach financial literacy! The best part is that each game has four levels of complexity, for ages 7 - 18! Also has lesson plans! Each game covers a different idea; from investing, working, profit and loss, even product placement! The game that's part of Pay Yourself first needs a little tweaking to be more playable. Still and all this is a great addition to Good Sites. It's from The Rich Dad Company.

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Sites for Teachers


Telling TimeTicking Clock gifA subsection of Math

BBC Education - Snapdragon - Tell the Time Cute little activity teaches the hours in English and Welsh! Kids can make the hands move.

Bornthinker.com Smiley Clock Kids decorate an animated clock by correctly telling the time. Needs Shockwave and Flash. Scroll down to Smiley Clock and click Play.

Clock & Telling Time Games - All Free and Online Oodles of telling time, analog to digital clock games! Huge collection, some we already have, some not. Check them out and use them if they meet your needs. Part of a larger, promising site!

Clockworks from KS1 Bitesize Numeracy covers Hours, half hours and minutes; also one of the few that asks "what time will it be in..." Three levels, five stages in each. Good stuff.

Interactive Clock from Time-for-Time show hours, minutes, digital, and current time. Good teaching aid, listed by Wilson School.

Learn to Tell Time  (New URL!) "(Learn to tell time using a standard clock face in increments of 5 minutes.) NOTE: JAVA is required for this learning tool."

Teaching Time - Teaching Tools This big site has online activities by grade and has print-outs, too. Scroll down to the Whole Class Clock and the Year 1 - Year 5 sections of the site. Options to purchase and download, too. (We've bought their Year 1-5 CD and it's good. Good customer suppoert, too.)

Downloads   Tellin' Time Free download, game for Windows only. From the author: "I put this together for my kids to practice reading the time off of an analog clock. It's based on a flashcard type game where an analog (12 hour) clock face displays a random time. The child is then expected to enter the "digital equivalent". A four minute timer runs in the background, and a count of correct/incorrect answers is displayed. This program is freeware. Enjoy."

Telling Time in Words and Digits from Harcourt. Guess the time in minutes and seconds!

Time Travel Good multilevel telling time drills game from ABCya!

Time Tutorial from Kids' Online Resources Parents can teach their kids to tell time with the help of this site.

Train Time Makes kids practice telling time to solve the problem of what train to catch. Unique way to apply their knowledge of time.

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