Math
Activities - 4 to 6
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Grade Leveled Activities |
Geometry |
Numbers
and Number Sense |
Math
Facts and Operations |
Fractions |
Time
and
Money |
Note: Some of these links
are within other linked pages, but are especially good. Others have
links within them that are also worth checking out.
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Grade Leveled
Activities
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Textbook Based Grade
Level Activities
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Glencoe Math
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/ose/index.html
This is the site that goes
with the textbook for sixth grade mathematics.
You will need
the login and password given to you by your teacher!
Note: The User Name and Password are both case sensitive, so
remember to use capital letters where necessary! |
Other Grade Level
Activities
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AAA Math for Fourth Grade
http://www.aaamath.com/grade4.html
These are a variety of different activities for the fourth grade. |
AAA Math for Fifth Grade
http://www.aaamath.com/grade5.html
These are a variety of different activities for the fifth grade. |
AAA Math for Sixth Grade
http://www.aaamath.com/grade6.html
These are a variety of different activities for the sixth grade.
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Geometry
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Tangrams
http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap4/4.4/index.htm
This National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) site has two
good tangram activities. |
NCTM Illuminations Isometric Drawing Tool
http://illuminations.nctm.org/mathlets/isometric/index.html
A nice activity for drawing 3-D shapes, from the NCTM. |
Geoflash
http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/Flashcards/geoflash
Practice naming the geometric shapes using these online flashcards. |
Area Flashcards
http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/area.html
A good site to practice finding areas of geometric shapes. |
Reasoning About Volume Exploring
http://illuminations.nctm.org/mathlets/cubes/index.html
A great place to work on finding volume, from the NCTM.
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Numbers and
Number Sense
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Inequality Flashcards
http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/gtlt.html
Compare numbers with these online flashcards. |
Rounding Flashcards
http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/rounding.html
Round for the nearest hundred to the nearest ten-million! |
Equivalence Balancing Act
http://illuminations.nctm.org/imath/across/balance/equiv1.html
This NCTM activity helps kids explore what "equivalency" means. |
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Stability in Numbers
http://illuminations.nctm.org/imath/across/balance/equiv2.html
Another NCTM activity on equivalence. |
Base 10 Blocks
http://arcytech.org/java/b10blocks/b10blocks.html
This site allows you to explore numbers with online base-10 blocks.
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Math Facts and
Operations
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Wershbale's Division Page
http://www.pgcps.org/~calvert/divhot.html
Calverton's Mr. Wershbale made this site to help introduce student
to long division. |
The ArithmAttack
The ArithmAttack was originally
designed by and employee of the Argonne National Laboratory. There are now
one-minute and two-minute versions of this excellent, interactive math
fact practice program.
One Minute
http://www.dep.anl.gov/aattack.htm
Two Minute
http://www.saab.org/mathdrills/attack.html |
Mathmastery.com
http://www.mathmastery.com/cyberchallenge/index.cfm?CFID=688453&CFTOKEN=74011045
Tired of the same old fact drills? Here's another way to practice! |
Addition Flashcards
http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/addition.html
Easy to use flashcards for addition. |
Subtraction Flashcards
http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/subtraction.html
The same format for subtraction. |
Multiplication Flashcards
http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/multiplication.html
These flashcards are for multiplication practice. |
Division Flashcards
http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/division.html
The same simple flashcards for division. |
Math Square
http://www.edu4kids.com/msq/
You need to know your math facts before you try this challenging
puzzle.
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Fractions
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Wershbale's Fractions Page
http://www.pgcps.org/~calvert/fraction.htm
Another in-house site. This one has dozens of links to really good
websites dealing with fractions. |
NCTM Fraction Model Applet
http://illuminations.nctm.org/mathlets/fractionpie/index.html
This site has a great application in it, which allows students to
manipulate objects and name fractions. |
Find Grampy
http://www.visualfractions.com/FindGrampy.html
This game allows kids to estimate fractions by looking at head
behind a hedge. |
Identifying Fractions Using Circles
http://www.visualfractions.com/EnterCircle.html
This is a great introduction to identifying and naming fractions. |
Comparing Fractions Flashcards
http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/Flashcards/fractioncmp
This site gives good practice at ordering fractions by size. |
Identify Mixed Fractions
http://www.visualfractions.com/MixedFraction.html
Use a number line to identify whole numbers with fractions. |
Rename in Lowest Terms
http://www.visualfractions.com/RenameLowest.html
The activity helps students learn how to rename fractions. |
Reducing Fractions Flashcards
http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/Flashcards/fractions-red
Two fourths is one half - practice this and similar conversions at
this site. |
Mixed Number to Fraction
http://www.visualfractions.com/MixtoFrac.html
Whole numbers, with fractions, get converted into improper fractions
in this exercise. |
Easy Decimal Place Values
http://www.aaamath.com/plc51b-placevalues.html#section2
Identify decimal places easily with this activity. |
Hard Decimal Place Values
http://www.aaamath.com/plc51c-placevalues.html#section2
This version of naming decimals is a lot harder. Do it after the
previous version is mastered. |
Ordering Decimals Game
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/shockwave/games/laddergame.html
The BBC offers this fun game for placing decimal fractions in
ascending order. |
Decimals to Thousandths
http://www.aaamath.com/dec44a-w2nthsndths.html#section2
This is tough practice naming decimal fractions.
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Time and Money
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Analog Clock Flashcards
http://www.edu4kids.com/clock/time.php
Convert an analog clock with hands to digital time. |
Analog Time Compare
http://www.edu4kids.com/clock/time2.php
Compare analog clocks to determine which shows the passage of more
time. |
Analog Time Difference
http://www.edu4kids.com/clock/time3.php
Practice finding out how much time has expired. |
U.S. Mint
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/
A variety of games and online activities about money, from the
people who make it. |
Money Experience for Kids!
http://www.edu4kids.com/money/
An assortment of activities that can be individually adjusted. |
How Much Money?
http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/Flashcards/money
Pictures of actual money are used in this activity to count how much
there is. |
FunBrain.com - Change Maker
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/cr.cgi
Here change is made, with pictures of actual money helping to show
the coins and currency used.
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