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AAA Math New and improved with even more topics! An oldie but still growing and going. Many teachers think this is one of the best math sites for online learning. Covers K-8 Common Core math content requirements, always has. Generally, a short tutorial is followed by practice activities - open or times at the teacher's choice. Available on CD, too!
Now with sections for Geography (US States, Countries), Spelling, Vocabulary,(both at AAASpell) and Sudoku! Este sitio también está disponible en Espanol - Clique aqui.

Arcademic Skill Builders has math and word games ready to play online. You may recognize some games from the '80s and '90s here. Seem to remember playing them on TI-99s and Apples, and they are still good for today! Browse by subject and grade. Subjects include Language Arts, Spelling, Geography, and 12 kinds of mathematical skills. One player, or up to 12 players at once, online. Worth your time to look these over.

Basic Shapes Video from Kids Math Games Online. "Learn about basic shapes with this great video for kids. Help children understand a range of important shapes such as triangles, circles, squares, hexagons and more. How many do you know? Check out the video and find out!"

Cats in Line from Jan Brett lets kids pick out the position of the orange cat in a line of cats. There are 10 lines of cats.

Chip Abacus from NLVM This is no longer free and does not use Java. You have to buy the new app from NLVM.
Great for comparing ones, tens, and hundreds! The arrow keys do the work. Example: Put 11 units counters in the ones column. Click the left arrow and you get one marker in the tens column and one still in the units column. You can move back and forth between units, tens, and hundreds, building up and breaking down as needed. Just play with it and see.

Common Core math, explained in 3 minutes from Vox. Well done 3 minute video. Besides the video, there's a card stack of 18 cards that explain Common Core in great and non-confusing detail (think PowerPoint slides, only without PowerPoint). If you watch this unbiased, you'll know where the Common Corps advocates are coming from.

Oh, My Dots is very intuitive to use. You can play
the games online, share, download and print. Apart
from the classic games with numbers and letters, you
can create games with any sequence, like the examples below:

* Prime numbers up to 50 - https://www.ohmydots.com/play/1sl3j2hk
* 7 times table - https://www.ohmydots.com/play/l8yr28p5
* Roman numerals up to 20 - https://www.ohmydots.com/play/aoie2f7t
* Solar system - https://www.ohmydots.com/play/5buw341z

The site is completely free. You don't need to register or enter
your e-mail address to create games.

Educational games from Digipuzzle. "On this page you can find the overview of the educational games from Digipuzzle.net. All games can be played full screen on a PC, a tablet (Android Tablets, iPad, etc) or mobile phone (Android, iOS)." Here's a diverse group of kids' games, from numeracy to multiplication, with some early language arts, some geography, time, hieroglyphics, and some money math. Here they are by subject with the number of games in parentheses:

Multiplication (8)

Addition (7)

Subtraction (2)

Fractions (3)

Learn to count (7)

Kindergarten games (2)

Language (3)

Topography USA (5)

Topography Europe (2)

Clocks (4)

History (2)

Money games (3)

Flash Cards free download game for Windows only. This is a great game. "It's a simple flashcard program that covers addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You can select any one of the operations to practice on, or have the program mix them up. Though the default is 10, facts up to 100 are selectable. Version 3.0 includes the ability to practice fractions. A timer or a clock runs in the background, and a count of correct/incorrect answers is displayed. This program is freeware. Enjoy."

Fun Counting Games for Kids from Kids Math Games Enjoy kids counting games online and help improve your math skills. Perfect for students in early grades of school, these interactive games and activities offer fun challenges that kids will love.

Fun Kids Online Math Games from Sheppard Software. Many action math games for elementary and middle school ages.

ICT Games This is an English site containing many great elementary school math games! We were impressed by the great number of games and the diversity of subject matter. Our K-1's enjoy Whack a Mole, a numeral recognition game. Thank you, James Barrett, for designing and coding all these.

Jumpstart is a familar name with subscription games and free goodies, too. A good sized free pdf worksheet section and more besides. Mostly for the younger set.

Ordinal Numbers from Turtle Diary starts with a one-minute video using kids in line to explain the concept. Then there are several pages (keep clicking the Next button at the bottom of the screen) of easy exercises to reinforce learning. This one talks! We can pretty much guarantee your child will understand ordinal numbers after this marathon! Part of TD's Kindergarten Math Games collection.

Place Value Games from Family Learning in the UK, is a collection of links to ten sites that help kids reinforce place value skills. "When children have mastered counting up to ten or twenty and are ready to work with larger numbers, these place value games will help them to develop an understanding of how place value works." Wide variety of games approach the concept in different ways.

Quizzes.cc - Online Quizzes, Tests, Trivia, Worksheets, and Free Games "... provides math quizzes for teachers and students. You can create a quiz and select the range of numbers you'd like to use. Students can grade the quiz online and generate new problems for more practice." Quizzes for all four elementary operations, plus times table quizzes and a nice metric conversion chart. There are also children's literature, science, and geography quizzes. Secondary students can practice metric conversions, some middle school science, and world geography. Thanks to John @ Quizzes.cc for the email!

Seashell Rounding Activity Page from Jan Brett gently introduces/reinforces the math concept of rounding. Kids may repeat each of the 10 problems as often as necessary. Beautiful art, of course.

Skip Counting from Math is Fun. Learn to skip count by 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s, and 4s! Easy to play games let kids get lots of practice. This page explains the concept well, too. Part of a huge site you should check out.

Teach Math with Legos! Also known as "An Incredibly Effective Way To Develop Your Child’s Math Skills With LEGO Blocks",
as shown in DYT. "School teacher Alycia Zimmerman regularly uses Lego to help develop basic math skills among her pupils.
Lego blocks, she finds, offer a great opportunity to explain fundamental math concepts and calculations in a way which is
immediately understandable for young minds."
Lego Math

"So for those who can’t find the right words or who find they haven’t got the patience to help with their kid’s math homework,
here are a few examples which Alycia uses. Each and everyone of them is incredibly simple, but seriously effective."

Examples shown in the article include: Parts vs. whole; Fractions; Square numbers; and Exploring mean, median, mode, and range.

Turtle Diary is similar to the old Cookie in site layout, content and mission - it has games, read-alouds, ESL activities, mathematics, science, art, puzzles, printables, arts and crafts. Designed for pre-K through 5th grade, ages 5 - 11. Great site!

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Will and his Happy Hamstars is a K-1 math game. Save the Hamstars by solving easy math problems.
PLEASE watch the How to Play Video before you try this out.