Math Practice

Fact Practice

That’s a Fact from Harcourt School Publishers provides practice with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. You can control which numbers to use, whether you are timed or not and how the problems appear. Answer each problem by typing or clicking on the number, then press the Enter key or click OK. At the end you’ll see your time and the number of correct and incorrect problems.

Mathmagician. from the Oswego City School District provides timed math fact practiceChoose addition, subtraction, multiplication or division and practice one number at a time or do mixed problems. Each round gives you 20 questions in one minute. Answer by typing in numbers and pressing the Return key. At the end you’ll see your time and percentage score.

Play Numeracy Games from the BBC to help you remember math facts like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, number ordering, place value, and more.

Fact Family Cards from MathCats are a fun way to practice math facts off-line. Print out these cards and the directions for different ways to use them.

These math practice machines were made by students at Ambleside Primary School in Great Britain:

• Addition Machine
• Subtraction Machine
• Multiplication Machine
• Division Machine
  

The Table of Trees lets you practice multiplication facts by number family.

Callum’s Addition Pyramid helps you practice addition of three numbers by adding each pair and then adding the sums together.

Play Fridge Magnet Multiplication.

This Times Table from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics lets you see the product of any two numbers. Figure out the answer, then check yourself by clicking on any of the squares in the table to see the
correct product.

Explore the Multiplication Table from MathCats draws the rectangle created by any multiplication problem on the hundreds table.

The Multiplication Grid Game from MathCats scrambles 100 number squares and starts a timer. Drag each number into or near an empty square on the grid and give it a click. If the number is in the right spot, the frog hops, and a point is added to your score. This is a good game to play after practicing with the multiplication tables above. Note: you will need to download the free MicroWorlds Web Player to play this game.

The Times Tables Game from the BBC asks you to find the product of two numbers by clicking on the square on the hundreds table. You can play timed or not timed, and choose which numbers to use.

Practice math facts with online games at Academic Skill Builders. Play alone or against other players. For example, in “Jet Ski Addition,” the faster you answer the addition problems, the faster your jet ski goes around the course. At the end of the race, you see how many problems you answered correctly and which problems you got wrong.

Math facts for younger students

Little Animals Activity Center from the BBC provides addition and subtraction practice for younger students. Click on the ladybug with the correct number of dots to finish the addition problem.

Count Us In from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation lets you put kids on a bus to add up to a given number.

Sum to 10 reveals a picture while you practice your 10 facts.

The Money Desk from Credit Unions National Association let students practice making various amounts with coins.

Mental Math

Students created The Totally Mental Machine for mental math practice.

Give the Dog a Bone by finding hidden numbers on this interactive hundreds table from Oswego City Schools.

Sum Stacker from Carsten Studios’ Math Doodles lets you click and drag coins or dice until each stack adds up to the number shown.

Connect Sums by clicking on a series of dice or coins to add up to the number shown in another Math Doodle.

Add or subtract along a number line to make the ball smash the flies in Number Jump from Math Doodles.

The Money Program lets you practice adding coins and bills to come up with a given amount of money.

In Powerlines from Oswego City Schools, all the numbers in any straight line must add up to the given number.

Figure out the missing numbers and add up the rows and columns in the Button Beach Challenge puzzle.

Practice Algebraic Reasoning using virtual scales and icons. Your goal is to determine the weight of objects based on other objects in the equation.

Speed Grid Addition challenges you to find the numbers that add up to a given number – fast. Subtraction, multiplication and other levels are also available from the Oswego City Schools.

In Sum Sense, drag the numbers to the right places to make the equations correct. Available for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division from Oswego City Schools.

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives features interactive practice with Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Probability for all grade levels.

Fractions and Decimals

Introduction to Fractions Activities from the BBC helps you display fractions and see them in different ways (pieces of pizza, people in a group, filling a jug, dividing a bar of chocolate). You can also see fractions side by side to help understand simplifying fractions.

Play this matching game from the BBC to practice Comparing Fractions and Percentages.

The Fractotron from Ambleside School makes you quickly decide whether fractions are more than or less than one-half.

Choose the biggest fraction each time to win the Dolphin Racing Game from the BBC.

Match fractions with decimals in this game of Saloon Snap from the BBC.

Ratio Practice asks you to tell the ratio of red marbles to black marbles.

Factors and Multiples

Practice counting by two’s with Space Hopscotch. Click on the correct number to make the monster jump.

Practice multiples by coloring the shapes that are multiples of 2, 3, 4, or 5 in Color It.

Play the Factor Game from Illuminations with another player or against the computer. Choose a number, then your opponent has to find all the factors.

Find all the factors of numbers in the Grid Game from the BBC.

Story Problems/Problem Solving

MathCats Story Problems lets you practice the thinking that helps you solve story problems. Figure it out in your head first, then drag your mouse over the “magic chalkboard” to see the answer and the equation.

Practice story problems with Disaster Math from FEMA. These story problems are all about earthquakes, tornados, floods and other disasters.

Problem Solving with Addition and Subtraction encourages you to practice easy story problems; the story problems use British money: £ stands for pounds and p stands for pence. You can also practice Problem Solving with Multiplication.

Nrich Maths publishes fifteen new interactive problems and a number of games each month. aged 5 to 19. All are tagged with curriculum content links and challenge levels. Search the archives of for lots of great problems designed for use by students aged 5 - 19.

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