Interactive Math Activities
by Gary Pieters
Interactive Math Activities
Geometry
- Coordinates Game
This activity will allow students to plot points on the coordinate plane and to read the coordinates of a point plotted by the computer. This activity will allow students to practice their point plotting skills. This site allows students to have many experiences locating and plotting ordered pairs. Students receive instant feedback on the correctness of their response.
URL: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/coords2/index.html
- Maze Game
This activity will allow students to practice their point plotting skills by having them move through a mine field to a target location. Students receive instant feedback on the correctness of their response.
URL: http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/coords/index.html
- Geometric Shapes Activity
This site allows students to put their geometric skills to the test by matching a geometric shape to the word provided.
URL: http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/games/geopicture
Number Sense and Numeration
- Addition Bingo - Grades 3 to 8
This math activity which is cleverly designed as a bingo game provides students with the opportunity to improve their computation skills in addition.
URL: http://www.aplusmath.com/games/matho/AddMatho.html
- Hidden Picture Subtraction - Grades 3 to 8
This math activity which is cleverly designed as a bingo game provides students with the opportunity to improve their computation skills in subtraction.
URL: http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/games/subpicture
- Division Bingo - Grades 3 to 8
This math activity which is cleverly designed as a bingo game provides students with the opportunity to improve their computation skills in division.
URL: http://www.aplusmath.com/games/matho/DivMatho.html
- Multiplication Bingo - Grades 3 to 8
This math activity which is cleverly designed as a bingo game provides students with the opportunity to improve their computation skills in multiplication.
URL: http://www.aplusmath.com/games/matho/MultMatho.html
- Math Baseball - Grades 1 to 8
FUNBRAIN provides students with a math problem. Once the students enter the answer to the problem and hit the "Swing" button they will get a hit for every correct answer. FUNBRAIN will decide if the hit is a single, double, triple, or home run based on the difficulty of the problem. If the answer is wrong, the student will get an out. The game is over after three outs.
URL: http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html
- Change Maker - Grades 1 to 8
Students are given a problem to solve which requires figuring out how many of each bill or coin they can expect to get back when paying for something, based on the amount tendered. For each correct answer, the amount of change is added to your piggy bank. For each incorrect answer, the correct amount of change is subtracted from the students' piggy bank. The more money the student get in their piggy bank, the harder the questions will get.
URL: http://www.funbrain.com/cashreg/index.html
- Addition and Subtraction Challenge - Grades 1 to 8
Automath provides students with challenging addition and subtraction activities that increase in difficuly ranging from easy to hard.
URL: http://www.edbydesign.com/automath.html
- Base Ten Count/Place Value - Grades 1 to 8
This base ten sorting and grouping activity is useful for students who are working on place values or continuing to demonstrate understanding of how numbers are made up. The goal of the activity is for the students to group the ones into tens to see what numbers come up.
URL: http://www.edbydesign.com/btcount.html
Math Games - Logic
- Math Tic Tac Toe
The game of math tic tac toe provides students with a lesson in probability relating to their chance of clicking on three Xs or Os in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line.
URL: http://www.mathpower.com/tictac2.htm
- Checkers
The game of checkers provides students with the opportunity to strategize and make plays that are advantageous to their chance of success in this game.
URL: http://www.mathpower.com/checker1.htm
This resource collection was prepared, edited and maintained by Gary Pieters, an educator and part-time graduate studies student at OISE/UT, as a requirement for my course work in CTL1605: Internet Resources in Education.
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