More maths homework sites

These sites are designed to help some of you fill some gaps in your knowledge or strengthen your grasp of the skills and knowledge covered in class.

Take your pick from the activities and share your comments about which ones are best :-)

Rounding; Decimal Places and Significant Numbers

Finding Formulas for mental maths

Square Roots

Powers, Exponents and Roots

Enjoy! I am glad some of you have indicated that you will take the opportunity to practice at home.

Cool Maths Games

http://www.coolmath-games.com/

Check out this site for fun maths games like Lemonade Stand which encourages entrepreneurial skills.

And try out Maths is Fun for more online learning opportunities :-)

Try some more maths

Here are two more websites with useful, fun, maths activities:

[Tell us which ones you found at the appropriate level]

http://www.aaamath.com/

http://www.mathplayground.com/games.html

Maths homework links

Who could this be???
Find out on the compulsory site at the end of this post.

Here are links to previous Room5ians Rule maths posts, links to online resources for homework, and some other guff about maths you may find interesting...

magic MATHS!

maths is great - afterall, we like shopping don't we? and working out how much pizza we can all have? and getting to the movies on time? - all using maths.

maths can also be magic - in fact, we can use mathematical language to describe almost anything in the universe. on a simple level, we can investigate the magic numbers appear to have.

have you ever investigated magic squares?

follow the link below...

http://nrich.maths.org/public/viewer.php?obj_id=1337&part=index

and for a safe NZ government organised site with links to lots of NZ relevant maths stuff follow this link:

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/hot_topics/maths_e.php

and for those keen to try out maths games and problems, check out this link:
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/maths/interactives.php

pyramid maths and info

this site has the explanation of how the pyramids were built as well as some activities relating to the maths of pyramids.

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/story/main.html

mega maths!

For those of you who do find maths interesting and are looking for a challenge, see these sites. there is one on Leonardo daVinci's works also. I think we will look at it in class, so if you want to get a head start....

http://mathforum.org/alejandre/frisbie/math/student.leonardo.html

http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/maven/index.htm

Measurement

I have attached some hyperlinks to NZ Maths online, digital learning objects, and TKI's eLearning sites...

http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/LearningObjects/


!!! Compulsory !!! in ICT Time
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/gameswheel.html

Tests lead to games

Hi kidlets,
in our IKAN tests most of us showed we have a gap in our skill/knowledge in the fraction world.
Here is an online game for you to have a crack at - it may be too easy for you, but it has levels and could be fun .
:-)
There are also some Youtube videos about fractions and how to "do" them. Check out Mr Duey - he has a music video about the little blighters!
And here are the others:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6053953053135492653
How to add and subtract fractions

And these are just normal websites dedicated to explaining fractions....
http://www.aaaknow.com/fra.htm
Visual Fractions

I hope you learn and enjoy :-) We will review these sites in class...