Math Facts Practice

Here are some good sites for practicing math facts. Click on the “Links” tab at the top of the page to find many more math games.

• Meteor Multiplication: http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/meteor/meteor.html
• Math Arcade Skill Builders: http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/
• Flash Cards: http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/index.html
• Math Baseball: http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html

Good practice games

Here are some good practice games for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing positive and negative numbers:

• http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/sub-nflash.html (try all the different types at once!)
• http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/casey-runner.html (click on “Flag Race”)
• http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/PlanetBlasterBasics/index.html (click on “Set Options” and change the “Min Number” to include some negatives…try all the different operations)

Standard, Expanded, and Expanded Exponential forms

Work with a partner to find a helpful web site on these 3 different ways to write numbers. Share your web site as a comment on this post. And the winners are…

The best link shared by your classmates:
#1) http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001385.shtml shared by Garrett — has many excellent links including some of our runners-up…a great resource!

The runners-up:
#2) http://www.aaamath.com/plc31d-placevalue-add.html shared by Brody, Abby, and Tylan — has a good description of place value and expanded form, along with an interactive practice game.
#3) http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/math4/d/hp/standard.htm shared by John, William, and Chase — has an interactive practice game for expanded form.
#4) http://www.icoachmath.com/SiteMap/ExpandedForm.html shared by Ellie, Sadie, Allison, Amanda, Charley, and Kelsie — has an excellent description of standard and expanded forms, but some students seemed to be getting a message that this site may require you to install extra software to view it correctly?
#5) http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/QQ/database/QQ.09.07/h/kent1.html shared by Alex, Ryan, John, Tyler, Carissa, Alex, Molly, Tyler, Dylan, Allison, Amanda, Kenzi, Kaitlynn, Charley, and Kelsie — a very popular site and one of the only ones in this list to explain expanded exponential form!
#6) http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57137.html shared by Michael and Molly — another good explanation of standard and expanded forms.

Welcome!

Welcome to the 2009-2010 school year! I hope you have a great 7th grade year, and I look forward to helping each and every student succeed to his or her highest potential. Keep an eye on this blog for assignments, web links, and more — just use the tabs at the top of the page to navigate the site.