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I'm just looking for some recommendations. My 6 yr old can't do math by sight - only by actually counting out the numbers. I'd like to help her with it over the summer. she loves to use the computer, so I was looking for some online tools. I have ABCMouse, but it doesn't look like they have what we need. Looking mostly for addition and subtraction tools. Tx!
Flash cards!! And math games :)
KhanAcademy... is such a great FREE site........ love love love it!! it covers ALL levels of math.. At 50, as a returning student to school, even I have used it to review fractions.. give it a try, you ll be glad you did..
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Get her an abacus for the hands on counting, or use jelly beans, m&m's, beans etc. One of my daughters really loved the abacus. I also have my kids use Khan, they really like it.
Highly recommend Khan Academy. You might check with her teacher for more recommendations. I homeschool and my son had a problem understanding a concept. I tried several different approaches and they just didn't click. I had him watch a video from KA and the light bulb went off. It was a wonderful thing and it's free.
Blessings!
L.
I have taught 2nd grade for 5 years now and use a couple of math games with my class.
Monsters under the Royal Bed (MURB) is a game where the travel around the MURB town and visit different businesses. Each business (dentist, hair salon, resturant, etc) has fun mini games where you can choose what they work on (addition, subtraction, multiplicaiton, division) and even which fact families they work on (+1, +5, +2-9 etc)
Sheppard Software has lots of educational games (math, science, animals, language arts)
xtramath is the last one I use regularly. It isn't a game but just online flashcards that are customized to what level your child is at.
There are other ways to teach math that use different skills and senses. So while on line games are fun, don't be afraid to do things like cooking (measuring out quantities, counting cups of liquid or the number of eggs or teaspoons of butter), shopping (looking at prices, weighing produce on the scale, figuring out how many stickers or shapes we need if there are 4 per sheet and there are 2 sheets inside each pack, etc.), doing things in nature or crafts (how many pine cones does it take to make this wreath? How can I sort the pine cones into two equal piles?), or any of dozens of other activities that use math. Some kids learn visually, but others learn through auditory means (so listening to counting songs in the car can be fun and educational), and others learn kinesthetically by actually DOING (so manually counting out the berries for a berry dessert, sorting into groups of 10, and then having the vision kick in to see that 30 minus 10 equals 20 can make things so much clearer to a kid to whom "30 - 10 = 20" looks like hieroglyphics)!
Mobymax or Kahn Academy
I'll second Kahn Academy.
Get familiar with it now, your child will be using it through college. It's an awesome resource!
