I often search the web for great websites for my kids. For some subjects (like math), I particularly like finding sites that make learning fun (even for tweens).
I was thinking that there might be some readers who don’t have the time to go searching for sites…so, here are a few links I like. These are mainly for math:
The first site I’d describe as a James-Bond-type-of-character-meets-math site that I call Cool, Cool Math Site that you just have to see! (mostly b/c the URL is insanely cumbersome)
Here is a well-known site called FunBrain-Math, more commonly referred to as Math Baseball. Basically, your kids will do many simple skill exercises that earn them a “homerun”. Don’t expect great, engaging graphics, though. Your kids will undoubtedly like this site much more for its well known character, Greg Heffley, and his “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” His site can be found on the main FunBrain Home Page (just click on the “Web Books + Comics” button) or here and for his blog click here.
If you haven’t heard about this yet, and you have a fourth grader (or older), you will most likely hear about it soon.
The next site is called simply, CoolMath. Or you can go right to the section just for kids, called CoolMath4Kids.
If you’d rather have some without all the bells and whistles (i.e., vivid colors and eye catching buttons) of CoolMath4Kids, but with great research tools, try these — first, this one has a nice drop down menu called, “Quick! I need help with:” (which is exactly what I call it when I bookmark it). On that site, you can search within all sorts of math topics from Quadratic Equations to Word Problems with Ages.
And this site looks really boring, but has some fun tools.
For something completely different, this one is all games!
I’ve always loved math, so I especially hope this helps kids who don’t yet (and may never!) see the magic of math or those who just dread doing their math homework.
Images from Google Images (and Alleghany High and fotosearch.com)
