| Copyright 2006 Julie Shepherd Knapp |
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| The Homeschool Diner's Guide to Math for Homeschoolers On-Line Enrichment Ideas – Math by Julie Knapp, copyright 2005, 2006, 2007 [Originally published in the January/March 2005 issue of the "MCGT Outlook", the bi-monthly newsletter of the Minnesota Council of the Gifted and Talented, Vol.28, No.1] Does your child need just a little more challenge than your math curriculum provides? Whether you are teaching, after-schooling, or homeschooling… on-line math enrichment may be your solution. Listed below are some great websites with fun and interesting math for all ages. Give them a try, and stash the ones you like in your Favorites folder! Fun Ways to Use Math Multiflyer - multiplication facts (click “play on-line”) PlayKidsGames.com - Multiplication Tunnel Blaster LearningPlanet.com -- Math Mayhem Timez Attack -- by Bib Brainz, a 3D RPG game where you use math facts to open locked doors and battle ogres, free download available Funbrain.com Connect the Dots –number practice for pre-K/K, including “by 2’s”, etc (play on-line and/or print it out) BBC SkillsWise – many games for basic skills (K-12) FunBrain.com Change Maker – be an international cashier Shop Till You Drop -- practice mental math in a shopping game (in English pounds, but the idea is the same :-) The Number Balance - teddy bears on a see-saw show addition Aunty Math - K - 5 math challenges from the Dupage Children's Museum ABC LearnOnline Count on Us– great math games for pre-K/K FunBrain Math Arcade -- (1st - 6th) all sorts of math games Franklin Institute On-line - open-ended problem solving Fraction Shapes by Cynthia Lanius -- fractions don't have to be pie- shaped! Have fun working with other shapes Probabilities in the game of Monopoly -- play to win Extra-Curricular Math Concepts The Logic Zone -- free online interactive grid logic problems Sand Drawings and Mirror Curves by Ivars Peterson -- how an African sand drawing tale illustrates the physics of reflection MC Escher: Interlocking Shapes and Tessellations by William Chow -- an engineer takes a look at Escher Fractal Geometry by Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Nial Neger -- free online tutorial on fractals from Yale University, very well explained Geometric CD Sculpture -- this Truncated Icosahedron CD Sculpture is a work of art as well as geometry! Mathematics Illuminated from Annanberg Media -- 13 units covering high level extra-curricular math concepts (primes, topology, chaos, etc) Project Euler -- challenging math/programing questions -- give them a try! StatPrimer -- a free online tutorial on statistics, with exercises How to Count to 1,023 on Your Fingers -- an intro to binary numbers Times Trick -- an interesting multiplication method to mull over Paper Models of Polyhedra Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section – math concepts combined with history, art, architecture, and music ScienceU Geometry Center– tiling, fractals, and more MacTutor- history, biographies, advances, and more Los Alamos Mega-Mathematics - Mind-bending math activities MathWorld.Wolfram.com - Interactive math encyclopedia MathPath.org - brain candy for future mathematicians - http://www.mathpath.org/math.htm NUMB3RS Math Program -- the CBS TV show NUMB3RS, about detectives using math to solve crimes offers free episode study guides Graffiti Grapher - history of graphitti as an art form, includes a cartesian graphing applet that helps create letters mathematically JavaGami -- software that allows you to create and render complicated 3D origami-based folding polyhedra MathPuzzle.com -- the puzzling weblog of recreational mathematics Bathsheba Sculpture -- where math, chemistry, and sculpture meet Medieval Islamic Mosaic Tiles -- show signs of advanced math NumberSpiral.com by Robert Sacks -- patterns in squares and primes Mathematical Art, Graphics, Chaos, Fractals -- links to interesting sites Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics -- a mixture of math and history MathPuzzle.com -- the puzzling weblog of recreational mathematics Top 100 Theorems in Math -- 500 BC to present, from Stevens Inst Tech Lesson plans on Code Writing and Code Breaking The MegaPenny Project -- see what one thousand pennies looks like,,, how about 1 quintillion? (How about 1000 cows?) |
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