Helpful Websites
Looking for some extra practice with math, reading, or writing skills? Check out these websites below!
Math
A Plus Math This is another excellent website to practice your math facts. Use this site instead of Math Baseball when you're looking for flashcards!!
Brainteasers Every Wednesday evening a new brainteaser is added to this site. You can select from non-routine problems for grades 3-4, grades 5-6 or grades 7-8. Can choose to see helpful hints if needed.
Figure This Math challenges for families. Suggested for middle school students but can be used as enrichment for grades 3-4.
Funbrain Math Baseball An excellent game for one or two players. You should practice your math facts every night. Try Math Baseball and see if you can beat your parents!!!!
GameBone Hundred Chart Presented in an appealing game format, students must use their knowledge of the hundreds chart to find a hidden dogbone. An excellent website to build number sense.
How Many Cents? Students look at pictures of real coins and enter the total number of cents into the calculator. Excellent to reinforce the names and values of coins. Click on How Many Cents?
Set Game A new problem is posed every day! Children analyze the set of figures to determine the smaller subsets of three. Children analyze the characteristics of the figures to determine the sets. Excellent for enrichment!
Spacey Math Students can practice basic math facts in a sequential order, starting with the easiest facts. Practice is provided for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Stop the Clock Practice telling time!! Match the digital and analog clocks - Beat your Best time!!
Math - Basic Facts:
Busy Bees Find the missing addend.
Save the Math Apples Help the monkey save the apples! Click on the basket with the number to give the answer. Keep clicking the basket to add numbers to your answer.
Math - Fractions
Fraction Pizza Practice naming fractional parts.
Introduction to Fractions Visualize different fractional amounts. Try the different graphics to see fractional amounts in different ways.
Thirteen Ways to Look at One-Half There are 13 ways that this square can be divided in half. Can you find them all?
Math - Geometry and Spatial Sense:
Buzzing With Shapes Beginning shapes game for 2 players. Match a numeral to a shape with that number of sides.
Hexagons A fun game where you try to place 7 hexagons together correctly.
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/area/tangram.html
Mirror Symmetry Interactive, manipulative activity
Simple Coordinate Game Students investigate the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system through identifying the coordinates of points, or requesting that a particular point be plotted.
Symmetry Explore reflection symmetry with online folding, mirror images and checking of understanding. Reading involved makes this grades 3 and higher.
Symmetry Game Play this online game and identify lines of symmetry.
Math - Manipulatives Online:
Whole Number Cruncher Students investigate very simple functions by trying to guess the rule from inputs and outputs.No negative numbers.
Math-Measurement:
Length Strength: Centimeters Use an online ruler to measure objects in centimeters.
Length Strength: Centimeters Use an online ruler to measure objects in centimeters.
Measure It Online game to measure in centimeters or inches.
Math-Money:
Changemaker Find the correct change. Two levels of difficulty.
Counting coins Count the coins and find the value.
Discovering Coin Values Drag coins into a container to create the amount of money shown. Amounts can be over $1.00.
Lets Compare Find the values of 2 set of coins and compare which is greater or less.
Matching Equivalent Amounts of Money Concentration type game to match amounts of money. Grades 3-4.
Math-Number Sense:
Compare Numbers Drag the greater than or less than symbols to complete the number sentences. Three levels of numbers to 100, 1000, and 10,000.
Five Frame Thinking about numbers using frames of 5 can be a helpful way to learn basic number facts. The four games that can be played with this applet help to develop counting and addition skills.
Number Track Drag the number tiles to the correct place on the number track. (Number sequencing)
Odd or Even Drag and drop the number tiles to their correct position on the Venn diagram.
Pinpoint that Number Pinpoint that Number is a number ordering game (Grades 3-5)
Ten Frame Games Using frames of 10 can be a helpful way to learn basic number facts. The 4 games that can be played on the interactive ten frames on this site help develop counting and addition skills.
Wash Line 1 Hang out the washing in the correct order in this ordinal number activity.
Math-Patterns and Algebra:
Number Balance An activity for developing understanding of simple equations. Hide individual numbers or symbols as you wish. Designed for teacher led investigations.
Weigh the Wangdoodles Get ready for algebra with the wacky Wangdoodles. Your mission is to use balanced equations and algebraic reasoning to find the missing Wangdoodle weights.
Math-Problem Solving:
Brainteasers Every Wednesday evening a new brainteaser is added to this site. You can select from non-routine problems for grades 3-4, grades 5-6 or grades 7-8. Can choose to see helpful hints if needed.
Grand Slam Math Grand Slam Math is an interactive program to help you become better at solving word problems. Level 1 contains 15 addition and subtraction word problems. Level 2 contains 12 multiplication and division word problems.
Hoops Hoops provides word problem practice for students in grades 3-5. Problems range from single step to multi-step. Solve 5 problems. If you get 3 or more correct you get to play Hoops.
Math-Time:
Stop the Clock Drag the 5 digital times to the correct analogue clock, the press STOP THE CLOCK to record your time.
Reading
List of about 60 authors who have actually replied to student letters. Includes Christopher, Cleary, Giff, Naylor, Polacco, Prelutsky, VanAllsburg, etc.
List of about 60 authors who have actually replied to student letters. Includes Christopher, Cleary, Giff, Naylor, Polacco, Prelutsky, VanAllsburg, etc.
Reading - Audio Books
Read the mysteries and solve them online.
Check out this Web site to find short folktales for students to read. The site contains -- in addition to other stories -- a dozen folktales from around the world. Appropriate for ages 6-12, the tales include student-created illustrations, comprehension questions, and free writing assignments.
Collection of stories to read online.
Word Study - Within Word
Poem Pack Ten colourful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends.
Sandcastle Ten vowel patterns, (some r-controlled). Given a word with a blank in the middle, select missing vowel pattern. Picture clue also provided.
Snap It Look carefully at the cards to see if they match. When you see a pair click Snap! But dont get Snap happy - if you get it wrong, you lose a point. Use the slow/fast slider to increase the challenge. Faster is harder but you get more Snaps!
Word Blender Help Wordblender make words by choosing a start sound (onset) and an end sound (rime) to blend together. Wordblender will tell you if youre right or not. You might even be able to make some new words that dont exist!