Math

New Franklin February Math Links
Enjoy these geometry-themed games and activities designed to thaw your mid-winter chills with shapes, angles and symmetry.

**Primary Level**

Shape Lab
Help Pablo finish his invention by handing him the right shape. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/numeracy/shapes/fs.shtml

Turning Shapes
Our lawyers have advised us to say this has no relation to Tetris http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/tetris/tetris2.html

Patch Tool
A fun combination of art and polygon explorations []

Tangram Puzzles
Tangram puzzles from the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives []

**Intermediate Level**

**Gorilla**
Determine the best angle and level of force to get the banana to hit it’s mark. []

Dino Dig
Use a coordinate grid to dig up fossils []

**Robo-Packer**
Move the robots into postion to pack them into the case. http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/robopacker_grade3.html

Ladybug Maze
This will seem familiar to those who remember driving the turtle around in Logo – with a maze twist. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_141_g_2_t_3.html

 **Squirt the Dog** Figure out the best angle of the hose for squirting Fido. []

Math Links Archive
Games and Resources aligned to Everyday Math Units, from the Center School District of Missourri [|K Everyday Math Games] [|Grade 1 Everyday Math Games] [|Grade 2 Everyday Math Games] [|Grade 3 Everyday Math Games] [|Grade 4 Everyday Math Games] [|Grade 5 Everyday Math Games]

Addition and subtraction
[|Lake Mathatobie]**:** Reel in some fish with addition skills [|Add It Up]**:** Challenging addition game [|Landing Craft]**:** Math blastery addition game. [|Sum Sense:] Addition challenge [|Test the Toad:] Addition [|Sum Stacker:] Drag values from stack to stack until they match the value below. [|Trimathalon] [|Catch10:] Help bear form groups of ten. [|Snakes and Ladders:]Online Chutes and Ladders from Count On; an excellent math site. [|Bitesize Math:] Repair the slide bybuildingpairs that add up to 20.

Telling Time
[|Bedtime Bandits:] Telling Time

Money
[|Connect Sums:] Use coins or dice to make the correct sum combination [|Coin Madness] and [|Matching Money:]Two currency challenges from Sheppard software. [|Farm Stand Math:] units and money on the farm [|Cash out:] Making change

Shapes, Patterns, and Puzzles
[|Buggin’ Out:] Manipulate shapes to make a path for the bug to reach the flower

Number Order and Place Value
[|Number Jump:] Swat flies by moving the ball the correct number of spaces on the number line [|Shark Numbers:] Practice place value and keep Sharky from eating your boat. [|Place Value Sharks:] Click the number bubble equal to the number of squares to save your surfboard

Fractions
[|Flitting with Fractions:] What fraction of the butterflies can you collect? [|Fraction Monkeys:] ­ Hang monkeys on equivalent fractions. Two difficulty levels

Number Sense
[|Todd and Stevens Odds and Evens:] from the Bobber’s Farm site [|Bobbie Bear:] How many outfits can Bobbie wear? [|Ant Parade:] A cute early number matching activity

Fractions
[|Turkey Terminator:] Fractions and throwing pies at turkeys. Who could ask for more? [|Math Splat:] Keep the gnats from going splat on the windshield by correctly adding fractions. [|Fraction Frenzy:] ­ This gets tough. [|Fraction Pizza] [|Skillswise] Fractions, Decimals, and Percents from the BBC

Multiplication
[|Multiflyer] ­ Multiplication practice [|Speed Grid Multiplication Challenge:] Set your own speed and number of problems [|The Flight of the Knight:] Knights, Catapults and Multiplication – a great recipe for learning and fun. [|Meteor Multiplication:] Aaahhh…they’re coming closer! [|Multiplication Puzzle] ­ Fill in multiplication holes in this puzzling grid. [|Ghostblasters:] Blasting ghastly multiples [|Grid Game:] Another goofy game from the BBC Education site. Please Pythagorus with correct answers. [|Sum Sense:] Set your own time and number of questions in this great number sense and computational challenge

Division [|Snork!]long division Drag Race Division Demolition Division

Decimal and place values
[|Place Value Golf:] Help duck drive the ball. Set your own difficulty level. [|Decimal Detectives:] Find the crooked decimal on this goofy sleuthing site [|Place­ Value Pirates] ­ Decimal Place Value

Geometry
[|Alien Angles:] Geometry [|Banana Hunt]­ Estimating degrees of angles

Logic Puzzles
[|Wall’s Logic:] A frustrating logic puzzle [|Pattern Generator:] Pattern recognition challenge with some pretty challenging levels. From the extensive Shodor Interactivate site. [|Totem Destroyer:] A spatial puzzle that may keep folks up at night. [|Power Lines ­ Math] Reasoning skills ­ addictive for adults too. [|Bloxorz]: Frustrating enough to keep you awake at night [|Java Kali] ­ Neat symmetry site

Estimation

 * [|Estimating a sum]
 * [|Estimating a difference]
 * [|Rounding decimals]

[|Find it fast] [|Mr. Nussbaum's Estimation Valley] [|PBS Kids Ballpark Estimation] [|Estimator Four] [|Estimation with a number line] [|Estimating Size] [|Estimating with Word Problems] [|Unique Estimating Practice]
 * Estimation games**

[|Create a graph online with Kids Zone]
 * Graphing**