Math Intervention

Math At Home

This site correlates with Fall Creek Elementary’s core curriculum and main math intervention curriculum, Bridges. It has math activities, games, and practice pages organized by grade level and specific math content areas. No login is required. Simply click the link below and select your child's grade level to begin!

https://mathathome.mathlearningcenter.org/ 

Math Apps

Additionally, please check out these apps that are based on the visual models featured in Bridges. Apps are available in multiple versions: a web app for all modern browsers and downloadable versions for specific operating systems and devices.

https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/apps-launcher

• Fractions

• Geoboard

• Math Clock

• Math Vocabulary Cards

• Money Pieces

• Number Chart

• Number Frames

• Number Line

• Number Pieces

• Number Rack

• Partial Product Finder

• Pattern Shapes

• Whiteboard App

App Learning Activities

Not sure what to do with the math apps? Check out this page with app learning activities.

https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/apps/learning-activities

Looking for other online math activities? Check out the sites below!

https://www.ixl.com/math

(IXL is a paid site; however, many grade levels use it in their classrooms. Check with your child’s classroom teacher for login information.)

https://home.xtramath.org/

https://www.tangmath.com/games

https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/

https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm

https://www.mathplayground.com/math-games.html

Board Games

If you've had enough technology, give the following board games a try (just to name a few)! Note, emphasize math talk while playing!

• Chutes and Ladders

• Hi Ho Cherry-O

• Blokus

• Dominoes

• Sequence

• Mancala

• Uno

• War

• Yahtzee

• Tenzi

Mini Math Challenges

Don’t have access to technology or board games or they just aren’t your thing?… try these math challenges! (Note, every challenge can be adapted to varying skill levels; complete them to your child’s ability.) How many challenges can you complete? 

1. Practice counting (or writing numbers) forward AND backward from different numbers. Can you count (or write) your numbers by 1s? 10s?

2. Choose a number and ask the following questions:

   • • What number is after ___?

     • What number is 1 more (10 more or 100 more) than ___?

     • What number is before ___?

     • What number is 1 less (10 less or 100 less) than ___?

     • What number is between ___ and ___?

3. Measure the length of your arm from your elbow to your wrist. Double this number to find out the length of both of your arms.

4. Ask a parent what year they were born. Rewrite this year as a number in standard, word, and expanded forms. Find the difference between your birth year and theirs. 

5. How many jumping jacks can you do in 30 seconds? Use that number to determine how many jumping jacks you can do in 1 minute, 2 minutes, and 3 minutes.

6. Count the change in your “piggy bank” or parents’ purse/wallet. Then determine different combinations of coins that could be used to make the same amount.

7. Count the number of forks at the dinner table. If each fork has four tines, how many tines will there be at the table?

8. How many pages/books did you read today? If you read the same amount each day, how many pages would you read in a week? Month?

9. Practice skip counting by the number of people in your family.

10. Bonus: create your own math challenge!