Math Web Sites
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This nonprofit web site, which is organized by grade level and subject, offers hundreds of math skills exercises, interactive practice and challenge games on every page, and explanations of math topics.
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Cut the Knot |
This web site offers interactive games and puzzles for kids of all abilities and offers mathematical explanations of the puzzles.
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ESPN Sportsfigures Interactive Zone |
This Web site offers an interactive quiz linked to information, video clips, and activities related to the correct answer for each question.
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This website offers activities that create real-time correlations between equations and graphs, which helps students visualize and experiment with many of the major concepts from elementary algebra through pre-calculus.
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Figure This! |
This website offers math challenges. Each challenge features a description of the relevant math involved, notes on how the math can be used outside the classroom, a hint to getting started, and a Try This section.
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Fun and Sun Rent-a-car |
This website, hosted by Rice University, offers an exercise in which kids must solve problems and create a table and a graph to calculate the best value of four rental options. The site also offers discussion questions, activities, and extensions related to the project.
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Funbrain.com Math Baseball |
Created by the Family Education Network, this website offers a math game in which kids answer math problems in order to swing at pitches. Depending on the difficulty of the problem, students may hit a single, double, triple, or a home run. The game can be set to different levels of difficulty, and consists of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and algebra problems.
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Math.com Help Your Kids |
This site offers various tools organized by math topics, including those listed below, which parents can use to help their kids with math homework: Homework Help, Math.com Library, Online Calculators, Online Conversion Calculators.
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Soda Constructor |
This nonprofit website offers an interactive tool that allows kids to create walking geometric creatures and then see how gravity and friction affect them. The website also offers mathematical and scientific explanations of how the creatures walk.
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Tower of Hanoi |
This website offers an interactive logic puzzle called The Tower of Hanoi, in which kids move a tower of rings from one pole to another without placing a larger ring over a smaller one. As kids increase the number of rings, the puzzle becomes more challenging.
These sites are featured in Cable in the Classroom's webexplorations.