Hi everyone. I was wondering what are some good resources for learning math facts. I mostly need addition and subtraction for now. Any good tips on how you taught your children the math facts would be awesome too. I have a 7 & almost 4 year old, if that makes a difference. Thanks! -Katherine
Below are some fact practice sites. My kids also learn well through song. I'll link some addition songs. If you'd like some skip-counting songs for multiplication, pm your email address to me. I'll send you audio files of the ones I made for my kids. https://www.xtramath.org/home http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html http://www.bigbrainz.com/ http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/addition-kindergarten-1.html
Thanks for the links. They were very helpful. We're not ready for multiplication yet, but I appreciate the offer.
Not really a fun way, but we use www.emathfacts.com. It has all 4 sets and if you register (free but you don't have to) it saves all the work so they can go back and see how much faster they're getting at it.
At their ages, I think I would play math games more than do drillwork, with an occasional worksheet for the 7yo (and one for the 4yo to color on!). You can devise your own math games using regular playing cards (or only up to 10, with Ace as 1), or with dominoes, or dice. Or play "regular" games in which math is used to play (like dominoes or board games using two dice to move) or to keep score.
Thanks Miska5298! Lindina- I only mentioned my 4 year old because he likes to do what his brother is doing. I'm not concerned about him learning math facts yet. I just want my 7 year old to learn them. I have flash cards, but haven't used them yet because it'd bore him. I never learned how to play dominoes, so I'll have to look that one up. I didn't realize it was a math game.
I have searched for a "fun" way to get my son to master the facts, but I have not found anything as effective as flash cards for him. They are boring, but they allow me to focus only on the problems he has not mastered. All the programs I've tried waste time drilling him on ones he knows and squanders the precious minutes that make up his attention span! I have learned a few things. (My son is 9.) 1. Teach the stategies. (If you use Saxon, it teaches them. It's the thought process one can go through to figure out the answer more quickly than counting fingers.) 2. Once they are mastered, get them out of the "to drill" stack. It's satisfying for him to see that stack get smaller and smaller. 2. Post two or three of the toughies in prominent places like the entrance to the kitchen, the bathroom and his room. Whenever he passes by a fact, he must very loudly (unless someone is sleeping) say the problem and give the answer. Change them every couple days even if only to switch their places in the house. 3. Write one or two of the toughies on the driveway with sidewalk chalk. 4. Write the answers to several problems in squares with sidewalk chalk. Give the problem and then have him jump to the correct answer. You can do the same thing inside with boxes labeled with either the problem or the answer and he has to toss a bean bag into the correct one. If you labeled the boxes with the problem, then you give the answer. If you labeled it with the answer, then you give the problem. Every child is different, but this is some of the more effective things I've done...and I've done many things. My son challenges me daily to find the hidden passages into the labyrinth that is his mind! It's exhausting sometimes, but I'm holding to the hope that it will be worth it.
for addition and subtraction we ate ! lol Played with Pennies too! dh made a penny game up that was sort of like black out bingo. There are numbers on a bag of pennies in my house today but I can't recall his game. He had cards with numbers on them and pennies with numbers on them... that was 15 years ago! WOW! With ds2 I Used m&m math ( they actually have a book about it) and other countable things, Popsicle sticks etc.
Oh and we are using Saxon next year. This last year we did K12 and their math was strange to me. Seems like they had the kids jumping through all kinds of hoops to get to the answer instead of just teaching them 1+1=2.
we also used Horizon for 2.3 of my dcs math. One got to do more than the other becuase we had to go with $ avaialable at the moment back in those days.
