Online Games to Improve Your Child's Math Skills
82The Math Struggle
Do you remember your days as a student? Did you fear math class, loath math homework and dread the inevitable math test?
I did. I still get nervous if someone asks me anything that requires a little quick computation and promptly excuse myself from the conversation. I do not , however, want to pass this fear down to my children. I want math to be a positive experience. I'll settle for not excruciating!
We are all gifted in different areas, and for the child who is not a math whiz, there are plenty of resources to help them survive and maybe enjoy the process of learning the essential and sometimes irritating math skills.
If your child is struggling with math, or even if they are great with numbers online games and math homework help websites can help them catch up or excel in Math.
- Welcome to Math Playground
Action packed math site for elementary and middle school students featuring math games, math word problems, math worksheets, logic puzzles, and math videos.
Math Catches Up With You
The Best Math Site for Kids
Let's get right to the point. I searched far and wide to find the best sites that are free, child safe, contain limited advertising and provide excellent content and games that will keep my kid's attention for more than 30 seconds.
My all around favorite site is Math Playground. Designed for elementary and middle school students, this site has features your child will enjoy and really learn from. It offers games, help and activities from basic computation practice to learning programming.
Here are a few examples:
- How to do (almost anything) in math: a video collection that thoroughly answers questions submitted by students
- Logic Games
- Math at the Mall: percent shopping game
- Word problem games
- Timez Attack: a game to master multiplication
- Collaborative math project
- Printable worksheets
Math Playground is a highly rated, kid safe site.
Online Math Games, Learning Resources and Homework Help
These sites have a wide variety of activities to offer your child. If they get bored with certain games, they can move on to another. Also, as their skills develop and advance, different sites will fit their needs.
- Funbrain
Math Arcade - 25 math games including Ball Hogs, Mummy Hunt, Bumble Numbers. Register on your first visit and pick up where you left off next time! - Apples 4 the Teacher
An extensive collection of free educational elementary and preschool math games and online lessons. Math lessons and activities on counting backwards, counting by twos, fives, and tens, number sense games, telling time with interactive clocks and mo - Cool Math 4 Kids
Math games, fun lessons, puzzles and brain benders, flash cards, math dictionary, fractals, geometry reference and a preschoolers section. - Play Kids Games.com
Online kids games, alphabet games and math. Not an extensive math site, but there are a few fun games here. - LearningPlanet
Math games arranged by age and grade level. A larger selection of games are accessible if you subscribe to their service. - SuperKids
Create your own math facts worksheets. - Cyberchase | PBS Kids
Games and activities based on the popular PBS show. Includes a guide for parents. - Prongo
Prongo.com has fun, interactive, educational kids games. Math games and puzzles organized by age range. There is advertising present on this site. - Money
From the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Money lesson plans, history of American money. Play games like Design your own bill and send it to a friend, fun facts and trivia, a free printable book with puzzles and activities. - iKnowthat
This site includes more than just math, including parent and teacher forums, interactive games organized by subject and grade level from preschool through elementary. - PATH - Pupils Ask, Teachers Help
Free live homework help. Providing solutions to help parents and students with homework through message boards, full web pages to explain various topics or emailing a teacher for a direct answer. - WebMath
From basic math help through calculus, this site provides help on all math topics. - Cosmeo
Cosmeo math is a paid service for students in 3rd grade through calculus. The student selects the textbook they are using, enters the page number and problem and will receive an explanation. View a demo or test it out with a free trial. - Ask Dr. Math
Free ask-an-expert math help service. Ask Dr. Math a question using the Dr. Math Web form, or browse the extensive archive of previous questions and answers.
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Encourage and Reward
It is possible, that no matter how you try, your child will still not believe that math is fun. Math is usually fun for people who are good at it. For the rest of us, it is best to try to limit the pain of math by making it easier to understand. Reward and encourage your child for their efforts. Math phobias are born out of a lack of confidence, and are difficult to overcome. Daily encouragement and enthusiasm will be remembered and leave a lasting impression on your child.
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Thanks for reading Mr Marmalade!
Great game resource!
Thanks aoleon! :)
Great hub. You certainly did your homework :)
Thanks Uninvited Writer!
Thanks for the links!
You are very welcome, Kerryg!
This is great! I'm going to pass this on to my Daughter for my Grandson
Thank you Cynergy Diva! I hope they enjoy the fun math learning opportunities. :)
Amy, that's just superb hub about online games to improve kid's math skills! And not only humans like it, but google loves it, as well!
Thank you, Ervin! I have looked long and hard for ways to make math fun and interesting for my daughter. Many of these math games are interesting enough to hold her attention and make practicing math less boring.
that's right an online game can inprove kid's math skill,
but many kids love to play game containt with violation and brutality....
Thank you Koncling, the math games that are highlighted here are aimed at young children, who have (hopefully) not developed a taste yet for the more "action" oriented video games available.
Games are the best way to promote a childs Math and English Skills. I've been teaching for 10 years. Over that time I have found that anything you can do to encourage a student to want to actively seek out learning activities can have a great educational impact. I like some of the resources that are avaliable at http://www.mathandenglishworksheets.com
Thanks sayersteach, for the additional information. I agree that games can really help a child develop their math and reading skills with ease -instead of pain! Adding fun activities changes the way they view learning.
Great Hub. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I will definitely use the sites with my 10 years old son.
hubby7
Thank you hubby7 - I'm sure your son will love these math games! My kids are still entertained by them and it helps solidify many of the skills they are learning in school.
Hii Nice hub
but have you heard About the HangMan game??
It is The Game of Hanging", hangman is a simple word guessing game that has been known to exist in various forms since the year 1894 where a version of the game was recorded in a book named "Traditional Games" by Alice Bertha Gomme. It is commonly used to help teach children how to spell certain words.
It increases the intellectual power and chuen the mind of the small kids and of childerns
Play Hangman online at http://playhangmangames.com/
Just noticed this hub, and thanks for the suggestions. There's so much stuff out there, parents often don't know where to look. I'd recommend Math-Whizz (http://www.whizz.us), not least because I've helped develop it!
But it is, seriously, a good place for online math tutoring with interactive math games. We're quite proud of it, and we're trying to spread the word...
Thank you Duncan, for adding your suggestion. It is always great to find new sites that aim to help kids love - and not hate - learning math!
very informative hub!!! keep it up!
Thanks! Math help is always needed! :)
Have you heard of Hooda Math yet?
It is the newest most popular education site sweeping across the country.
Students and Adults love to play the challenging thinking math games during and after school.
Don't hesitate just check it out at http://hoodamath.com/. And make sure to share it with a teacher, student, or friend.
OH BTW, DID I MENTION IT IS COMPLETELY FREE!
Cheers,
Michael Edlavitch
HoodaMath.com
p.s. READING TEACHERS might be interested in Hooda Word.
Great work! Keep it up.
Shiva
great work! keep it up.
Thanks so much. This is a well thought out page that really contributes and helps!
Great hub page. Have you tried mathletics.com.au?
I enjoyed the read. You've added a lot of good information. There are some great resources listed. Thank you. I'll certainly pass this on to other teachers.
Here you can find a huge assorted list of online math games, which could be selected and grouped for creating a custom online lesson:
I' heard of Prongo before, but some of these sites are new to me. Great resource. This one is a keeper!
i want to say. i use this site and i love it. it is a great help and a wonderful thing to use.
I have over 25 years experience in tutoring math, starting well before online games were around! Games are of course great but there is much more a parent & child can do that games don't address - they only address a small fraction of what a student has to do in his/her school career. From 9th grade onwards games are not much use. What then? What should have been done to prepare for that? I have written down what I have learned in a book (search in Amazon for "What Can I Do to Help My Child with Math When I Don't Know Any Myself?" or ask at your local library). I have also put together a comprehensive set of web links to free resources covering the entire scope of grades 1-12 and early college math. You can find the link from the blog on the author Amazon page.
Nice hub. I don't think you guys have come across with http://www.khanacademy.org/ it's one person effort which become very popular among students in world wide. It was able to take the attention of Bill Gates. Check out by your self.
Thank you, very helpful! Voted up!
Very useful, i check Math Playground and kids like it very much.
Admiring the time and effort you put into your blog and detailed information you offer! I will bookmark your blog and have my children check up here often.
MrMarmalade 4 years ago
An very well reasearched hub
Thgank you