Learning multiplication facts can be very challenging for young children. Children gain a certain confidence from understanding and mastering multiplication facts that can be leveraged to master other math skills. There is a new video game by a company, Tinman Learning, called Arithmemouse Times Tables that is focused on teaching children this one important skill– time tables facts 0-12. (more…)

3 new elementary math card games for Fractions and Geometry.

4 Whole Numbers & Fractions Card Games (Grades 4-6)

3 Geometry Games (Grades 1-3)

3 Fractions, Decimals & Percent Games (Grades 2-4

All any teacher need do is to walk down any computer stores software isle and see a staggering number of commercial programs available for teaching math to students from K through 6th grade. How do you choose the one that is right for your students? Here are a few tips that can assist in selecting the program that is just right for your students:
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Playing four 15-minute sessions of board games such as snakes and ladders can improve a child’s mathematical abilities significantly, according to a study of four and five-year-olds. And the improvement in numerical tests is still measurable nine weeks later.

The researchers who conducted the study said nursery classes should include numerical board games to familiarise children with numbers before they go to school. It is also an easy way for parents to give their children a head start in maths. (more…)

Check out our new Fractions Board Game — suitable for grades 4 -5.

Here is a great way to get kids excited and interested in learning how to add and subtract fractions and how to simplify fractions to the lowest form.

This Board Game is a complete downloadable game packge including:
Printable game board – 16″ X 11″
Printable Game tokens
Complete instructions
Complete Rules of Play
Printable dice
80 printable full color game cards (2 games with 40 each)
Answer Sheets for 2 games.

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This Math lesson is ideal for Grade One students.

Objective:
Students will learn how to count backwards from 5 and to subtract one from any number from 1 to 5.

Activating:
This activating activity gets the students excited and thinking about numbers! Gather the students together on the carpet area. Sing the song, “Five Little Ducks” with the students. Sing through the song several times. Then have students dramatize it by choosing five students to be the little ducks and one student to be the mother duck. Grade One students usually like to crawl to act out the little ducks.
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Math can be daunting to many students and to some teachers as well. Many math concepts seem to confuse younger children, and a substantial number of adults grow up feeling less than confident about their mathematic skills. The way that numbers and mathematic operations are taught in North America is really quite different than in other parts of the world. In Asia, students are taught division first and then subtracting, as ‘sharing’ items with others is a logical way to begin. (4 cookies shared between 2 students is really 4 ÷ 2.) In some languages, the names of numbers also make more sense. For instance, in Chinese, 13 is said 10 + 3, which is really beneficial when it comes to learning addition. If you think about it, the way the numbers from 10-19 are named in English is quite confusing.
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We are please to announced our first Board Game – this is a downloadable board game like snakes and ladders where students roll a dice and advance according to their answers on the 40 full color game cards!

Our first game is Grade 4 Decimals — lots more to come soon!

Grade 4 Decimals Printable Board Game

The Power of Ten approach to teaching Elementary Math, originated by Trevor Calkins, is designed to help students really understand number concepts and operations. The following activities and games can be used to support teaching that uses the Power of Ten. (more...)

1. Small dry erase boards (or white boards from your local home supply store cut into squares) and dry erase markers are great tools when teaching math. You write a problem out on the board and have all of your students copy it down and work it out. The first one that lifts their board in the air with the correct answer wins a treat. (Tip: Maybe set a time limit for each problem)

2. You can create a game show in your classroom with touch light’s (those lights you push on and they turn on) and math problems. Divide your class into two teams (boys versus girls if you can) and each student gets a light. You give out math problems and the student or team that completes the problem first hits their light and their team gets a point (if the problem is right). Offer some type of prize to the winning team.

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