Meet Sushi Monster! Scholastic’s new game to practice, reinforce, and extend math fact fluency is completely engaging and appropriately challenging. Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target sum or product. Earn points with each correct answer… but watch out for distractions! To be successful, plan ahead and strategically select numbers from the sushi counter.
Yesterday we presented the Handwriting worksheet wizard, today we bring you the math worksheet wizard. These math wizards make arithmetic worksheets for your children. Rather than level specific, these are general math worksheets that can be used by any elementary school student. Just choose the settings that are appropriate for your child. Access the math worksheet wizard here. Again, this is a free resource for teachers and parents.
Tracing, recognizing mirrored images, counting pictures, finding differences – all these exercises are included in today’s freebie. These exercises combine different skills necessary for good reading, writing and calculating. Use these exercises when training dyslexic and dyscalculic children. Of course, you can also use them for homeschooling, tutoring, extra training.
Today’s freebie consists of some math puzzles with calculations until 10. Children have to cut out the pictures and glue them onto the correct calculation. This trains not only math skills, but also fine motor skills, attention, visual and spatial perception.
Tring breaks the mold of the traditional sliding puzzle you know and love. Ready to challenge yourself with an additional angle?
The sliding blocks now interact on a three-axis triagonal grid with the goal of getting the highlighted blocks to the designated end position. With this new axis, blocks can slide and push each other out of the way.
It is great fun to play this app. At the same time, children are training visual and spatial perception and logical thinking.
The app is available for iphone, ipod touch and ipad and is for free. It is possible to buy extra levels within the app.
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Many children with dyscalculia have difficulties with grasping amounts or with terms such as “less than…” or “more than…”. With today’s freebie this can be practiced within the number range until 10. Children have to count and to compare monsters. However, according to the AFS-method, you should not just practice calculating skills, but also sensory perception. Therefore, there are also exercises for visual and spatial perception included.
“Drawing lines” offers many possibilities to train children’s skills that are important for reading, writing and arithmetics: attention, hand-eye-coordination, visual and spatial perception. The children are counting, they have to decide whether to draw up, down, to the right, to the left, etc. This may look simple, but for some children this is a real challenge.
You get 5 sheets with 4 exercises each. The children have to continue the lines in the same way. They can do this freehand or use a ruler. There are also two empty templates.
For children who have real difficulties with this kind of exercise, it might be a good idea to laminate the pages and give the children an overhead marker. This works like magic, because with an overhead marker children are no longer afraid to make mistakes. They can easily wipe them away.
Extra tip: If you have an ipad or tablet, open the file in an app that allows PDF-annotation. The children can do the exercise directly on the ipad/tablet. There is no child who refuses to do the exercise then!
A new educational card game for word formulation helps children with reading and writing difficulties due to dyslexia to learn reading and writing more easily. The idea is simple: Making words with cards! With these cards, printed by the renowned Viennese card game company Piatnik, one can formulate letters and words using play.
Scientific background:
The educational card game “Letters2Words” was developed as a result of scientific discoveries that three-dimensional symbols are easier to recognize and retain.
The three-dimensional presentation of letters supports the immersion process and facilitates the child’s connection with them.
Scientific research has shown that this process is a crucial requirement for people to learn writing and reading more easily and satisfactorily.
