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 Fun Math Resources

Extra Math Practice and Games

• Everyday Mathematics Online – Everyday Mathematics Online provides many useful resources for students and parents, including games and an interactive reference book to help with assignments. To use it, you’ll need to know your username and password, which you can get from your teacher.
• Funbrain – Math Arcade – Interactive online arcade games make practicing math skills fun!
• Interactive Arithmetic – One- and two-person versions of “Connect Four” help reinforce addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills.
• Fun Facts from Factoid – These fascinating facts will encourage students to learn more about math and science.
• IXL – IXL provides a fun and engaging environment in which students can practice their math skils and be rewarded for their hard work. If you purchase a membership, you can also set goals, track students’ progress, and monitor their usage information.
• Khan Academy – This site features a library of over 2,700 instructional videos and 240 practice exercises covering a variety of subjects, including many elementary mathematics topics.
• XtraMath – XtraMath is a free web-based program that helps students master basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Students learn to recall them quickly and accurately and can then use these math facts as a basis on which to build more complex problem-solving skills.
• Games for practicing a variety of skills – Fun and interactive online games to practice a wide range of skills, including multiplication, angles, percentages, and other skills.
• Create Graphs – Practice making pie, bar, line, area, and x/y graphs.
• Generate Random Numbers with Virtual Dice – This random number generator comes in the form of many-sided virtual dice. Use conventional integers or custom-design your very own!

Help with Understanding Concepts

• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives – Offers a host of web-based virtual manipulatives and concept tutorials.
• www.learner.org – Primarily aimed at teachers, this website provides tutorials and explanations to help deepen understandings of central concepts.
• Cynthia Lanius – Rice University – Provides fun and interactive quizzes to reinforce topics such as fractions, geometry, graphs, and much more.
• Math Forum @ Drexel – Links to a collaborative online community, as well as practice problems and puzzles, to supplement classroom learning.
• Math links on the Internet Public Library – The Math page connects to scores of links to help learn more about geometry, measuring, money, and more!

Grade 5 – Games by Unit

Unit 1 Number Theory

• The Product Game
• The Factor Game
• Grid Game

Unit 2 Estimation and Computation

• Baseball Math for One
• One False Move
• AAAMath Place Value – 6 digits

Unit 3 Geometry Explorations

• Solids and Their Properties
• Bathroom Tiles
• Isometric Drawing Tools

Unit 4 Division

• Baseball Math for One
• Baseball Math for Two
• Mathcar Tic Tac Toe

Unit 5 Fraction, Decimal & Percent

• Soccer Shootout
• Fresh Baked Fractions
• Interactive Fraction bars
• Penguin Waiter
• Rounding Off
• Saloon Snap
• Pie Graph

Unit 6 Fractions

• Mean, Median & Mode
• Stem and Leaf Plotter
• Soccer Shootout
• Fresh Baked Fractions

Unit 7 Exponents, Negative Numbers

• Powers of Tenvideo clip
• Basket Math
• Guess a Number
• Line Jumper

Unit 8 Fractions and Ratios

• Soccer Shootout
• Fraction Pie Game
• Fraction, Percent, Decimal Bars
• All About Ratios

Unit 9 Coordinates, Area, Volume

• Planet Hop
• Isometric Drawing Tools
• Shape Surveyor
• Build a Box – Volume

Unit 10 Algebra Concepts

• Shape Pan Balance
• Guess a number
• Circumference
• Area of circles
• Algebra Planet Blaster

Unit 11 Volume

• Illuminations Solids
• Isometric Drawing Tools
• Volume
• Capacity and Weight
• Volume and Surface Area

 

 

Fun Science Resources

• Ace on the Case: Secrets@sea – http://www.secretsatsea.org/ – An interactive adventure that helps students learn about marine ecology.
• Amazing Space – http://amazing-space.stsci.edu – Amazing Space is a collection of interactive activities designed to teach students about black holes, collect solar system trading cards, and more.  Each activity includes high quality graphics and animation.
• Amoeba Movies – http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/moviegallery/pondscum/protozoa/amoeba/index.html – Explore videos of an amoeba eating and moving through different environments. Real Player needed.
•  The Astronomy Workshop – http://janus.astro.umd.edu/index.html – Students can view a multitude of Java programs that creates a solar system, view the moons and their orbits around their planets, and learn about astronomical distances.
•  The Atoms Family – http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/ – Explore educational activities about energy concepts, the power of the sun, energy conservation, energy transformation, electricity and fossil fuels being presented by famous gothic horror characters.
• Earth and Moon Viewer – http://fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html – View a map of the Earth showing the actual day and night regions at this moment. You can also view it as currently seen from the Sun, Moon, orbiting satellite, or from above a variety of cities.
• Education 4 Kids – Table of Elements – This site contains a table of elements drill.
• Endangered Animal Channel – http://www.endangeredtv.com/ – Students explore videos of endangered animals from the Bagheera site.
• Entomology Image Gallery – http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegallery/ – Students can view images and movies of beetles, ticks, lice, and lots of other creepy crawling insects!
• Exploratorium – http://www.exploratorium.edu/ – The Exploratorium is a collage of 650 interactive exhibits in science, art, and human perception.  Students can explore any of these subject: light color, sound, music, motion, animal behavior, electricity, heat and temperature, language, patterns, hearing, touch, vision, waves and weather.
• Fun Brain – http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A4=1 – This site contains a variety of edu-taining activities covering areas of math, language arts, social studies, and science.
• Funology – http://www.funology.com – At Funology find fun facts, experiments, crafts, recipes, magic tricks, jokes, and a whole lot more.
• Gameaquarium – http://www.gamequarium.com  –  A collection of language arts, math, science, and social studies.
• Hurricane Storm Science – http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/ – Interactive activities related to weather instruments and storms.
• The Great Plant Escape – http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/ – Students can help Detective Leplant and his partners investigate plant mysteries including cases about soil, plant growth, seeds, and reproduction.
• Inner Learning Online – http://www.innerbody.com – Students can study the anatomy of the human body or learn about the inner workings of an automobile. Each of the detailed graphic images has ‘hot spots’ that interact to provide more information.
• Iowa State Insect Zoo – http://zoocam.ent.iastate.edu/ – This site contains a live, interactive camera that allows students to view the insects at the Insect Zoo.  It also provides information about the insects.  Teachers can use this site to set up a tour by an entomologist.
• phFactor – http://www.miamisci.org/ph/index.html – Is it acid or base?  Use the ph factor resource to find out.
• Planet Impact! – http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/impact/ – Discover the fierce force of gravity and pelt poor Jupiter with a comet!  Teacher Tips included.
• Popular Science – http://www.popsci.com – There are plenty of interesting things to read at Popular Science Magazine’s web site. Articles on science, space, the Internet, computers, and more.
• ScienceMonster – http://www.sciencemonster.com – Created by the makers of CoolMath, this site entertains with information about our solar system.  Students can take a star tour, see how gravity and inertia work, and play a fun lunar landing game.
• Solar System Trading Cards – http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/trading/ – students will collect solar system trading cards by playing an interactive card game. They will identify the sun, planets, comets, and asteroids by answering questions about them. Students will learn facts about the solar system presented with amazing pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and various NASA missions.
• The Physics Classroom – http://www.physicsclassroom.com/
• Virtual Solar System – http://www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem/splash.html – A fantastic site from National Geographic with a vast amount of information about our solar system. With the Viscape SVR plug-in students can take a fly-by tour of the sun and each planet, but even without the plug-in the site is a must-see for space buffs.
•  Zoom:Kitchen Chemistry – http://pbskids.org/zoom/kitchenchemistry/ – The virtual kitchen to perform online experiments, solve a puzzle, and get a reward.