MATH HELP FOR ALL AGES

Do you need some practice on something you went over in school today? Did you forget one step in that algebra problem? Do you wish you had someone to "check" your work? How about a crash course in beginning banking or a place to calculate just about everything? Check these sites out -- and return to them often for practice. (Some are game -- honest it could be fun!)



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A Plus Math @ http://www.aplusmath.com/
An interactive web site that helps students with math skills. Math games and online math word finders. Online flash cards, work sheets, and homework checker. Printable tools also available. Features addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, fractions, basic algebra, and money.

CoolMath @ http://www.coolmath.com/home.htm
Advertised as an “amusement park of math designed for fun” and targeted towards ages 13-100, however kid, parent, and teacher sections feature math helps for kindergarten and up! Many math games including simulated lemonade stand. Math puzzles, flash cards, and practice problems. Online graphing and arithmetic calculators and more calculation tables.

Create A Graph @ http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx
Want to make your reports look like an A+? Kids 7 & up can quickly learn to make bar graphs, pie and line graphs.

Fun Math Lessons @ http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/
For grades 4-8, this site uses fun everyday samples to give math help. Cut up a pizza to practice fractions, rent a car on vacation to practice using math tables, figure out chili recipes while practicing ratios.

Finance Freak @ http://www.financefreak.com/
For students who are starting to make or spend money, this site covers different options in banking, lessons in opening a checking account or acquiring debit and credit cards, investing basics, facts about credit scores, and loan calculators. Written in no-nonsense language for teens. (Disclaimer –Beware the many ads.)

Mathematics in Movies @
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/index.html
Just for fun! This site shows you movie clips where math plays an important role in the plot! Includes Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the Simpsons.