By Request - Five Good Math Sites and Apps for Elementary School

This morning I received an email from a reader who was looking for “the best sites and apps for elementary school students.” That is a very broad question and I rarely say that any site or app is “the best” because what’s best for my students may not be the best for another teacher’s students. That said, I’m putting together a response to the question in the form of four lists of sites and apps for elementary school. There will be a list for math, science, social studies, and language arts.

Freddy’s Fractions is a free game from Math Chimp. Math Chimp offers a large collection of math games for elementary school students. In Freddy’s Fractions students help a sea turtle named Freddy find fractions that are larger or smaller than the one that is presented at the beginning of each level. Freddy’s Fractions is available to play in a web browser. Freddy’s Fractions is also available as a free Android app and as a free iPhone app.

Peep and the Big Wide World, produced by WGBH, offers a great collection of online games, videos, and offline activities designed to help pre-K and elementary school students learn and develop math and science skills. In all there are fifteen online games available through Peep and the Big Wide World. The games cover skills like pattern recognition, color and shape recognition, distances, and counting.

Math Slicer is a game that offers a fun alternative to using flashcards to practice basic mathematics skills. Math Slicer is available as an Android app and as an iOS app. In Math Slicer students are shown addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems that they have to answer by “slicing” the correct answer in half. The answer choices jump up on the screen and students have to slice them before they disappear. Before the start of each round of Math Slicer students can select the type of problems that they want to practice. Students can also select the speed with which the problems and answer choices appear on their screens. The free version of the app contains advertisements. The paid version ($0.99) removes the advertisements.

IXL Math Practice is a free iPad app from the popular online math practice service, IXL. IXL Math Practice offers hundreds of math practice problems for students in Kindergarten through sixth grade. The practice problems are arranged according to grade level and mathematics skill. To find a set of practice problems students select their grade level then select a mathematics skill to practice.

Harcourt School Publishers offers a nice little visual glossary of mathematics terms for elementary school students. The glossary is arranged by grade level and then alphabetically by term. Each term has a simple image and or animation. (The animations require Shockwave).

Disclosure: IXL is an advertiser on iPadApps4School.com

By Request – Five Good Math Sites and Apps for Elementary School

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