Friday, July 22, 2005

All Ages: Mathematics

http://math.about.com/ Yet another About.Com site. This one deals with mathematics, and offers things such as:

Early Numeracy: Want to give your pre-school an early start to math? Here are a few great strategies and activities you can do at home to get your child thinking mathematically and prepare them for success. This site has sample word problems for grades 1-6. It's interesting how you can create the foundation for word problems with children as young as first graders.

2nd Grade Adding Worksheets Are you helping your children with math this summer? You'll find a wealth of information here. 2nd Grade Addition Worksheets in PDF. This is another resource listing for students specifically at the 2nd grade level.

Telling Time - Young ChildrenAre you helping with your children with math concepts over the summer holidays? Here's a few tips and worksheets to teach 'telling time' concepts to children in the first, second and third grades. There are worksheets that allow you or the student to fill in the hands for the correct times.

Beauty and Geometry?What does math have to do with beauty? In ancient Egypt, individuals had discovered the mystical properties of the divine proportion - the Golden Ratio. Find out why phi = 1.618 is important to beauty! This is one of those unique approaches to mathematics skills that would appeal to perhaps middle high students who have become bored with regular mathematics work. It deals with ranges and proportions and ratios and other concepts taught in a way to keep a student interested.

Summer Review: 1st-6th GradesKeep those pencils and minds sharp over the summer. Here's some word problems that 1st -6th graders should be able to solve. Problems are subdivided into the math sub-topics.

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