Magic Ruler

Here's an online ruler plus things to measure. Kinda' takes some getting used to controlling the ruler though...
http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/byersjmath/geometry/teachers/length/magicruler.swf

Metric Measurement Conversions (Game)

Here's a neat game for converting metric measurements:

Choose from several different options... Length, Mass, or Capacity.


http://www.teachingmeasures.co.uk/menu.html

Measure It! (to the 16th-inch)

Here's some great practice for measurement. If you need practice using a ruler, this is a great one!

How To Play:
# FunBrain will show you a ruler with a red bar above it.
# Click on the length of the red bar.
# You can play with centimeters or inches.

Easy, Medium, Hard Centimeters
Easy, Medium, Hard, Super Brain Inches

Super Brain Inches is to the 16th-inch

Have fun!!

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/meas.cgi?A1=s&A2=0&A3=3

Fractions to Percents

I found this (not sure if it's powerpoint or something else), but anyway - it shows how to change fractions to percents. You just need to click on the arrow key in the upper right corner to advance it to the next screen.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4185223/Percent-III

Video- Graphing a Line in Slope-Intercept Form

Here's a video of a lesson about graphing lines using the slope-intercept form.

http://www.crctlessons.com/slope-intercept-form.html

Want to test yourself to see if you still need practice? Here's an online test (15 minutes timed) and you need a 70% score to 'pass'.
http://www.crctlessons.com/Slope-Intercept-Test/slope-intercept-test.html

Here's another lesson for slope-intercept form:
http://www.mathwarehouse.com/algebra/linear_equation/slope-intercept-form.php

Hoop Shot

Here's another slope-intercept form. This time you just find the slope or the intercept and if you find it correctly you get to shoot the basketball into the hoop. ...I can't get the ball into the hoop and I have blue shoes... But I can find the slope and the y-intercept! Yea me!

http://www.crctlessons.com/slope-intercept-game.html

Who Doesn't Love to Stomp Cockroaches? :)

It's just satisfying to stomp those little things!

Need to practice graphing lines? Practice finding the slopes of lines? You need to find the slope-intercept form to be able to fire a shot at those cockroaches. Instructions are included if you need a reminder. Here's a great one!
http://hotmath.com/hotmath_help/games/kp/Karappan_Poochi_Sound.swf

I had to change from a shoe stomping the roaches (a bit too realistic for me...) to a laser.

Place Value!! I'm so playing this one!!

Called Keep My Place - it's a crossword puzzle of math! Could it possibly get any better than that!?!
http://www.mathsyear2000.org/magnet/kaleidoscope2/Crossnumber/index.html

Fractions! This is pretty cool!

Sum-Part-Part-Product
This one is kind of hard to explain, but I'll try. Basically, you are given 2 of the above and are expected to find the other 2 that are missing. Ex: you may be given the sum and the product and you will need to find the 2 numbers/fractions that both add up to the given sum and multiply together to get the given product.

http://www.themathlab.com/gym/brainbuilders/table/sumpppr/sum_prod.htm

Decimal Multiplication Practice

Had a special request for some decimal multiplication practice:
http://www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/table-decimals.php?op=*&long=1&col=3&row=3&min1=0&max1=9&list1=&dec1=2&vary1=1&min2=0&max2=0&list2=&dec2=3&vary2=1&term_digits=0&round_decimals=3&switch_v1v2=1&neg=1&xdiv=2&font=Default&FontSize=14pt&pad=25&ptitle=&Submit=Submit

I'll keep looking for more when I get a few minutes...

Calculating Percentages

Here's a neat visual for percentages. You can fill in 2 of the 3 pieces of a percentage problem and it will calculate and draw a picture of the missing 3rd piece. It's not my favorite way of working percntage problems, but it certainly works; plus you may have been taught to do percents this way.
Hint: after filling in the 2 pieces you know, you need to click on the third piece before you ask it to calculate.
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_160_g_2_t_1.html

Found another site for solving percentages - using the proportion method (remember, we did proportions just last week) This site has examples as well as many practice problems. And when you get through with those practice problems, guess what - there is another page of problems to practice! No excuse now! HaHaHa! (They even included the answers so you can check yourself.
http://amby.com/educate/math/4-2_prop.html

Math Splat - those pesky little bugs!

Keep those bugs off your windshield! Add or subtract fractions correctly to keep the bugs from splatting all over your windshield. Game advances from same denominators, to different denominators to mixed numbers - remember to reduce your answers!!

http://fen.com/studentactivities/MathSplat/mathsplat.htm

ICE CREAM! Changing Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers

Hey, we all LOVE ice cream right!?! Combine ice cream with fractions and it makes the deal sweeter!

In this game you will be serving and selling ice cream cones. The customer places an order for specific flavors on his cone using improper fractions. Your job is to convert that to the correct number of scoops (mixed numbers). If you serve the correct ice cream cone, the store makes money; if not, the store loses money.

It will ask you to enter your name (I just used my initials)

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/icecream/index.html

Similiar and Congruent

This one is fun! Just feed the shapes into the 'mail slot' to find out if they are similiar or congruent.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/similar_congruent/

Fun with Angles!

Can you Catch the Alien? This is great for visualizing the size of angles!!
http://www.mathplayground.com/alienangles.html

Here's a great explanation of the different types of angles http://math.about.com/library/blangletypes.htm

Math Story (Word) Problems

Still need practice with word problems? Solve these online word problems.
http://www.haelmedia.com/OnlineActivities_txh/mc_txh4_003.html

Pythagorean Theorem

Oops... I meant to save this until next week, but I hit the wrong button. So go ahead and have fun with the triangles!


Here is an explanation of the Pythagorean Theorem (be sure to look over all three pages)
http://math.about.com/od/pythagorean/ss/pythag.htm

Free online Geometry Course: reviews basics 3 part course (probably will only need the first 2 for now)
http://math.about.com/library/weekly/aa031503a.htm

Fractions to Decimals to Percents

Here's a 'game' for practice changing between fractions, decimals and percents. Make sure you have paper and pencil.
http://www.mathgoodies.com/fractions/

Hey, I just found another good site for this! There are some 'factsheets' that explain how to convert, there is a quiz, and you could do up to I think 8 worksheets (hint: save your ink and answer them on paper - then check your answers using the link to the answer key)
The game is kinda', somewhat like concentration:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/comparing/comparingall3/index.shtml

How to Divide (Long Division)

Here's a neat video demonstration of long division:
http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_longdivision.html

Become a Math Millionaire!

This one is fun!! The first time I played I made it to $32,000! Can you beat me???

http://www.mathplayground.com/math_millionaire.html

OK, I tried it again and got to the $1 million dollar question and 'did I get it right?' - of course not! So I ended up with $32,000 again! Can you beat me??? (I forgot all about the 50:50 and hints)

Helpful info for Ratio & Proportions

Here is a good explaination of Ratios
http://www.thinkingblocks.com/mathplayground/TB_Ratio/tb_ratio1.html


Here is a video that explains how to solve a ratio & proportion word problem:
http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_ratiowordproblems.html


Some online practice - ranging from easy to hard. You choose.
http://www.thinkingblocks.com/mathplayground/TB_Ratio/tb_ratio7.html

Tons of Arcade games for memorizing multiplication facts!

A great site which has free online games to help memorize multiplication facts:
You can choose a game of your choice and most of them give you an option of working with just one fact (like just the 7's or just the 9's, etc) or you can choose to mix it up and work on 0's-5's (or whatever the game's options are...)
http://www.multiplication.com/

Math is FUN!

This is my blog to help me keep track of helpful tips and resources for Math. I will try to keep track of links and resources here.

It's not very pretty yet, but maybe I can spruce it up eventually. At the moment I am just trying to get it somewhat useful - aesthetics will come later.

OH, and since my kids will be using this too, I am not allowing comments. :)

Hopefully you will find some of this helpful and REMEMBER:

Math is FUN!!