Math
All Areas
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Lots of things to see and do here. I like the large visuals many of the activities provide.
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Illuminations has 102 online activities available. Select which types of activities you’re looking for, and click Search.
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The Math 5 Live! was developed by the staff/contractors from Alberta Education and consultants/teachers from Edmonton Catholic Schools.
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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
“The NLVM is a resource from which teachers may freely draw to enrich their mathematics classrooms.”
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This site has extra practice and activities to reinforce what we are learning in class. It’s made by the same people who made our Math textbook.
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This site takes you through some strategies in figuring out a word problem. There are a variety of different levels. Keep in mind that there are many ways to solve a problem and these are just a few. The trick is to figure out which strategy works best for the problem you are working on.
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Patterning and Algebra
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Drag and drop numbers into the function machine. Look at the pattern the function machine creates after it has spit out numbers and then complete the rest of the patten.
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Chapter 1, Lesson 1: 2-D Patterns
Use this site to practice what you’ve learned in Chapter 1, Lesson 1. It’s made by the same people who made your textbook.
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You’re sitting in math class when in walks a Bill Gates kind of guy – the real success story of your school. He’s made it big, and now he has a job offer for you. There are two payment option plans. Look at the patterns in the tables to decide which is the best payment plan for you.
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Chapter 1, Lesson 2: Patterns in Tables
Use this site to practice what you’ve learned in Chapter 1, Lesson 2. It’s made by the same people who made your textbook.
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Hacker has created 10 clones and is sending them to destroy the Poddleville Power Station. Find patterns to shut down the machines that control the clones to save the village.
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Chapter 1, Lesson 3: Solve Problems using Patterns
Use this site to practice what you’ve learned in Chapter 1, Lesson 3. It’s made by the same people who made your textbook.
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Drag blocks onto the workspace to stack the blocks and create a 3-D pattern. Make predictions about the growth of the stack.
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Chapter 1, Lesson 4: 3-D Patterns
Use this site to practice what you’ve learned in Chapter 1, Lesson 4. It’s made by the same people who made your textbook.
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Practice using a spreadsheet by selecting cells, entering values into cells, and performing calculations in cells. Then use the spreadsheet to solve the problem below:Each student ticket to a school concert costs $4.00 and each adult ticket costs $6.50. Create a spreadsheet to show the cost of 1 to 10 student and adult tickets.
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Chapter 1, Lesson 5: Number Patterns in Spreadsheets
Use this site to practice what you’ve learned in Chapter 1, Lesson 5. It’s made by the same people who made your textbook.
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Excellent challenging tangram puzzles.
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Teddy Bear Balance – balance the equations
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Help Postman Phil Deliver the Mail - solve questions like a + 7 where you are told what ‘a’ is equal to
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Algebra Puzzle 3X3 grid (beginner) or 4X4 (advanced) – i.e. three umbrellas in a row equals 33 so one umbrella equals
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Algebra Balance Scales balance manipulative
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Find the Missing Number practice finding ‘x’
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Fling the Teacher finding ‘x’ 15 times results in flinging your teacher a great distance.
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En Garde find ‘x’ and fight with a sword
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Algebra Meltdown find the correct number and keep your scientists happy
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Number Sense and Numeration Links
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These multi-player games enable students to play each other from different computers. Grab some friends and play!
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How many computer-generated arithmetic problems can you answer in 60 seconds? Good practice for class Mad Minutes!
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Practise multiplication and division with this game. Similar, a little, to the old Asteroids video game.
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Take on the responsibility of the Olympic committee and sort the event results into the correct order.
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Use base ten blocks to model numbers.
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Eric has smashed his calculator, but it still might be useful…
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Works well on a SMARTBoard too!
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Comparing and Ordering Numbers
Select Game 1 to practice comparing numbers and Game 2 to to practice ordering numbers.
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Order fractions and decimals in order to cross the river.
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Decimal and Whole Number Jeopardy
Review place value and comparing and rounding numbers. Also, practice number patterns.
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An interactive site showing how to divide with base ten blocks.
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Compare fractions, decimals and percentages.
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Figure out the missing numbers. Practice patterning and operations.
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Place decimals and fractions in order as the plants grow.
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Provide the fractional value of the number of butterflies that are in the jar.
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Practice your estimation skills while saving penguins!
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Find the place value of large numbers.
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Drag and drop flash cards to help master your times tables.
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Work on your mental math skills in all operations.
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This is a simple math game designed to test multiplication facts. It starts easy but can get quite challenging! The game is similar to Tetris.
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The MegaPenny Project takes one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and builds on it to answer the question: “What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?” U.S. measurements are used but it is still a very impressive site.
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Canadian money manipulatives.
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Multiplication Machine Quick, simple practice for your tables.
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Multiplication Practice Quick Flash. A fun way to practice the times tables.
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Multiplication Practice Match up the facts before time runs out. Mr. Toft has never won in ten seconds!
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Work on your mental math skills and score goals at the same time.
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Solve multiplication problems like 20 X 60 then throw a dart.
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Recognize numbers in expanded form.
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Practise identifying tens, ones, tenths and hundredths and do battle with those dreaded pirates.
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Primes, Factors and Divisibility
Tips, strategies, online calculators, etc. all help in understanding this topic.
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Type in any number and see how it is said. Note: this uses the American system of saying numbers.
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SpeedMath Addition/Subtraction
The goal of SpeedMath – Addition and Subtraction is to create an equation, as quickly as possible, from the four digits the computer gives you. You can use addition and subtraction to create your equation, but you are not allowed to rearrange the digits.
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This is a free download. It’s a first person shooter game teaching you the times tables up to 12 X 12. Make sure you have permission from your parents before you install. An email address is required. Keep in mind that although this is free software there will be prompts for you to buy the superior version!
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Measurement
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You will be asked to enter the hours and minutes as displayed on the clock.
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This one is from Ambleside Primary.
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A movie answering the question can shapes with the same area have different perimeters.
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Calculate your age right down to the second. Figure out the exact time to your next birthday. The clock on your computer needs to be set correctly in order for this to work. You can even find out your age on different planets!
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Interactive clock for telling time.
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Students are shown shapes on a grid and asked to calculate areas and perimeters of the shapes.
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Geometry and Spatial Sense
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Lots of activities on the topic of angles
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Help Robo Guy save the planet! You need to know your acute, obtuse and right angles.
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Similar to the site above.
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Coordinate Geometry Activities
Paper activities to print out.
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Print off this sheet and practice your cooridinates while playing Battleship.
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Cooridinates: Using a Cooridinate Grid
More practice with cooridinates!
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This website has a good video with interactive activities.
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Practice using a protractor online.
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What do you call a 14 sided polygon anyway? (tetrakaidecagon!)
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Find Hurkle behind the grid. Type X and Y axis numbers to find him Billy Bug Guide Billy to the coordinates hiding the food.
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Sort polygons according to their properties using an interactive Venn diagram.
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Virtual Manipulative
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This site has a game to test your knowledge of how many lines of symmetry are in a given shape.
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Reflect, rotate and translate the ball round the course.
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Nice visual of using protactors to measure angles.
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Data Management and Probability Links
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Create simple bar charts online.
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Use your knowledge of probability to bet on whether the next card is higher or lower than the last one.
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Interpret and Create Line Graphs
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