Spend 5-10 minutes a night practicing Math Facts and you’ll find your automaticity goes way up! Flash cards work when used in pairs, but when you’re alone, check out these fun sites. If you’re making a lot of errors, work on one or two sets of facts at a time, then slowly add in more.
New to this list: Be sure to practice your 6, 7, 8 and 9s!
http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/mathsmulti.html
***Fact practice: A summary of errors is provided at the end of each game. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/thats_a_fact/index.html
***Math Playground: First work on basic computation. Then click on Math Games. Use Balloon Invaders to practice a particular series of facts. But you’ll find more than fact practice on this site. Many engaging activities and games that require application of skills.
http://www.mathplayground.com/computation.html
***Play baseball while operating with whole numbers. You set the difficulty level. http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html
*** Travel through space with multiplication! http://alexandria-es10.lausd.k12.ca.us/Storhaug/GLL/flash-games/Multiflyer.swf
Read through and find a variety of activities http://www.hbschool.com/menus/auto/13/0.html
Math Fact Café: Basic facts. Says it’s a site for grades 1,2,3, but it’s really just math fact practice. Not timed. Corrects each problem as you enter. http://www.mathfactcafe.com/View/?t=F
Quizville. Higher Order Thinking Math Fact Games. Many are very challenging! http://www.quizville.com/mathGames/index.html
Play football while operating with decimals. You can set the level of difficulty. http://www.funbrain.com/football/index.html
Play soccer while operating with whole numbers and fractions. You can set the level of difficulty. http://www.funbrain.com/fractop/index.html
Other organizations also have link pages. Here’s a good one. http://allaboutmath.wikispaces.com/Resources
Very challenging multiplication. http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SpeedGrid/Multiplication/urikamultires.html
Multiplication and division practice in game form. http://www.vectorkids.com/vkinvaders.htm http://www.multiplication.com/index.htm
Play tic-tac-toe while practicing your math facts. You can set the difficulty level. http://www.funbrain.com/tictactoe/index.html
Fun addition practice. http://www.primarygames.com/math/danumba/index.htm
Activities for all grades. http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm http://www.aplusmath.com/