Math and Telling Time

Math, Money, & Telling Time Sites

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We're moving the money math sites into their own section! US$ only right now.

Math, Maths* A subsection of Math

* however you say it, it's our main mathematics section

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.

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

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 TI99s and Apples, and they are still good for today! Worth your time to look these over.

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.

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."

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.

Cyberchase This site deserves more attention. The Games section has 45 good applied math games. Wow!

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

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."

Fun Mathematics Lessons by Cynthia Lanius A huge, great site from a great math teacher.

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!)

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.

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!

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 liked! The BBC excels again!

KS3 Bitesize Maths For upper elementary through middle school/junior high in the USA. 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.

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

Kid's Place 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.

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

Matti Math 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 Playground This site showcases various math games and activities offered both by themselves and commercial companies. The ones we have used are pretty good.

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.

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

Multiplication.com Home of MultiFlyer and a lot more! All multiplication all the time. Links to plenty of good multiplication games, printable worksheets, resources, more. Some games may also be purchased and downloaded.

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.

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 old 1980's MECC game. 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.

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."

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

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.)

Timez Attack "The Ultimate Multiplication Tables Video Game" This game is wonderful, and the base (2s-12s) version is a free download. Everything Big Brainz says is true, kids love this game. New free version is out!

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.

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Counting & Changing Money A subsection of Math

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 girls, the rest are elmentary age appropriate.

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

Counting Money from Harcourt. Simple coin counting activity.

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

Learn To Count Money (New URL!) This is Play To Learn's money counting game.

Money in Your Pocket from NumberNut. Discusses coins, has four coin counting activities. Worth a look.

Money Program This is a good Java-based making change game or practice that uses US coins. It has three difficulty levels for differing abilities. Click here for instructions.

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

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Telling TimeA 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.

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're buying their Year 1-5 CD.)

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."

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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