The Internet abounds with sites that have good games for kids. Kids who battle with math in class filling out worksheets are sometimes transformed when they are placed in front of the computer to do the same thing, because they think they are going to play online games, and why not?
All kids love to play, so combining their love of fun with interactive math games may be just what certain children need to reinforce the math concepts taught in school. Best of all they are learning in a natural way, just by having fun.
Fun Online Games for Kids
CoolMath4kids: A great free site that combines lessons with practice sessions and also lots of fun stuff like puzzles and art.
Shepherdsoftware: On this site, kids can practice multiplication, time, fractions, algebra, roman numerals etc. The child is timed against the clock which is an incentive to think quickly.
Prongo.com: This site has the usual adding, subtraction, multiplication games but also has checkers, memory games, and games of strategy such as a stock market strategy game - all good for developing kids' math skills.
Free Printable Math Worksheets
Kidzone has a range of excellent free printable math worksheets in different themes. There are also coloring pages, lesson plans and language arts and fun facts for kids.
Mathsdrills: Lots of free printable math worksheets here to practice decimals, percentages,geometry, algebra, place value etc.
Worksheetlibrary.com: Worksheet library is not free, membership costs $29 per annum, but gives the member access to thousands of printable math worksheets and also worksheets in other subjects.
Interactive Math Games
Kids compete against each other from all over the world with Mathletics, a program designed to cover the curriculum from kindergarten to grade 12. Children can start at the easiest level in their grade competing to add, subtract, divide, etc against other kids to get the answer first, progressing when they feel ready to move on to the next level. Membership costs approximately $95 per annum.
IXL is a fun program that gets kids to practice maths. According to the website "They'll be giggling as IXL asks them to count the hippos, cheering as they earn medals and awards, and begging you to watch them play". Membership is $9.95 per month or $79 annually.
There are so many resources these days to help kids learn maths, there really is no need for any child to struggle. Practice makes perfect, so kids need to practice every day even during vacation time to reinforce the maths they are going to need to function in today's world.
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