Math Fact Websites- There are MANY more out there…here are a few:

http://www.factmonster.com/math/flashcards.html

http://www.abcya.com/math_facts_game.htm

http://www.funbrain.com/math/

http://coolmath.com/games/make-15.html

http://www.fun4thebrain.com

www.arcademicskillbuilders.com

Math Fact Apps

Sushi Monster

Math Drills

Flashcards

These can be found at dollar stores, Walmart, or typically any large store that carries school supplies. They are very inexpensive! This isn’t always the most fun way for kids to practice, but it is effective. J This is how I learned my facts when I was growing up! You can start by pulling out all of the cards that add zero or one. When your child has mastered those, you can move systematically to adding zero, one, and two. If you do this in chunks, the facts are not as frustrating. I recommend this for subtraction too. Start with only practicing the facts that subtract zero or one. When your child knows those without any hesitation, then you can add the cards that subtract two. When you slowly introduce smaller math facts, this is less frustrating for students!

Math Fact Games

1. Addition/Subtraction Top-It- You will need a deck of cards with all “face cards” removed (Jack, Queen, King, Ace.) This game is similar to “War.” You and your child will each lay down two cards. If you are playing addition Top-It, whoever has the highest sum (answer) wins all of the cards that were laid. You keep laying down 2 cards at a time, adding, and collecting cards until one partner has all of the cards. If you get all of the cards, you win. If you are playing subtraction top-it, the person with the highest difference (answer) when you subtract gets to keep the cards. If the answers are the same, you have a “war” and lay down two cards, face down each. Then you turn two more over and compare. The winner of that gets to keep all of the cards played from that round.

2. Shut the Box- Can be purchased on amazon.com

3. Addition War-Using a deck of cards (and possibly the face cards worth 10). Either split up cards or put deck in the middle. Each person turns over one card at a time and first person to add them up correctly gets to keep the cards. First person to get all the cards (or who has more at a certain point) wins!

4. Get a bag and put in cards with numbers 1-12 or however high you want to go. Pull out two cards at a time, add them up, and you could even write the equation for the problem. You could also do this with subtraction or multiplication as well.

5. Using dice, roll them and add, subtract, multiply, etc. the numbers that you roll. You could even use dice and cover them up with tape to write your own numbers or + - x

6. Include siblings, neighbors, or friends and one person (parent) could hold up a flashcard and whoever gets the answer correct first gets to keep the flashcard. Whoever collects more wins! (This may be for kids who enjoy competition.)