Spatial Reasoning Games

One of the strands in math is Geometry, which includes spatial reasoning and relationships. These two games (which are addicting and fun) will help develop spatial reasoning for people at any age.

Bloxorz

Gravity Grid

Enjoy!

Nouns vs. Verbs

What is the difference between a noun and a verb? Can you identify them in this game? As you do this, the parts of speech get more difficult.

Panda Mayhem

Place Value Tutorial

Again I cannot stress the understanding of place value enough. This tutorial is great to go through for ANY student, strong with the concept or not. Please consider having your child try this. The second half of the tutorial is for students who understand place value with whole numbers and would like to dabble in decimals! We will not work with decimals in class until the end of the year.

Place Value with Whole Numbers and Decimals

Learn the Facts Before you Practice Them

If students do not know the correct answer to a math fact, drill games are useless. It is important to learn the CORRECT answer to a math fact first before trying a drill game.

These games can help when stuck in a particular set of addition facts. You choose the fact (perhaps +3 or +6) to practice, one at a time. There is more than one answer to choose from in the problem given, so that you can see if you get the correct answer.

Math Fact Bubble Blast

Fun for the Brain (Addition Page)

Perhaps you have mastered addition and would like to try subtraction:

Fun for the Brain (Subtraction Page)

If you are REALLY looking for a good challenge, you can try multiplication games as well:

Fun for the Brain (Multiplication Page)

Good luck!

The Equal Sign

Students in American schools often have trouble understanding the equal sign as well as Algebraic Relationships. This website is great to help students "build" a number sentence.

Try it out and let me know what you think!

Sum Sense

Spelling Patterns

Learning patterns in words will help us understand spelling much better. In this game you need to match the pattern with the words.

Here is an awesome website to help you practice. Try Grade 3 first, and pick any unit to play. Once Grade 3 is going well, try to pick grade 4 or 5 for a challenge!

Good luck!

Spelling Match

Mental Math - Adding 2 digit numbers together

Adding 2 digit numbers together can be challenging. One strategy is to estimate numbers when appropriate.

• For example, you can think of 69 + 31 as 70 + 30...which equals 100!

Another strategy that works well is to add the ones together, then add the tens together. Add both and you have your answer.

• For example, add 64 + 96. 4+6 is 10 and 60+90 is 150. 150+10 is 160!

Use this website (Ghostblasters) to help you get some practice, it says it is for 2 players but you can play for both:

Ghost Blasters

Place Value Practice

If your child understands place value, it will give them a great base in which to build more difficult math concepts. Students need to have an innate understanding of "Base 10" (blocks which use ones, tens, hundreds, etc...) in order to work with higher level math concepts.

Below are some links to several games which will help your child practice these important skills. Please consider having them try these often.

Shark Numbers

Shark Pool

Dinosaur Place Value

In the last one, you are trying to understand that numbers are made up of tens and ones...

Current Event!

NASA had an exciting mission today! Go to the site http://www.nasa.gov/ to read more and check out NASA's website for kids:

NASA for Kids

Reading at Home Log Options

As adults, we sure do a lot of reading online. I would imagine that your children would enjoy this also. Below are some sites that can "count" toward the 20 minutes of reading time for the Reading Log. I really want to instill a love for reading at home, sometimes these high interest stories catch their attention and hold it.

Sports Illustrated for Kids ~ Many great articles and current events regarding sports.

Scholastic News Online ~ Be sure to click on Grade 3 when you want to read an article.

National Geographic for Kids ~ VERY cool articles and stories on this site!

Do you have any other sites that you enjoy that have great news stories for children?

More Math Fact Practice Sites

One focus of good quality math instruction is to teach math fact mastery. In class we will be talking about strategies to help us get to the answer of a math fact. Then, once we understand the strategy we will practice our math facts. Knowing strategies and practicing number sense will help us learn math facts faster. Research shows that once you do this, drill practice in short amounts of time can help with the speed of recalling math facts.

Here are some more websites that your child can try out to practice their math facts. The better we know addition and subtraction, the easier multiplication facts will be for us.

Addition and Subtraction:

Math Fact Race Game

Balloon Invaders

Addition Match
Subtraction Match

For students who'd like a challenge with multiplication!

Balloon Invaders

Practicing Math Facts

Periodically, I will post links for students with games that help practice math facts.

This website is amazing! You compete (no names involved) against students from other countries to learn math facts. I especially like the algebra section as this is something that our students at GES lack. You are the pig, competing against some other animal in another country.

Try choosing Math 101, choose addition and a level of difficulty. Try it out and please let me know how you like it with a comment on this blog!

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