Summer Math!

Basic Facts:
Any activities such as flash cards, worksheets, or computer games that help you improve your accuracy and fluency of the basic math facts for adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing.

Measurement:
Any activity that requires you to use measuring tools such as rulers, measuring cups etc. or figure measuring such as miles per gallon. Students should use standard measurement and metrics. Real life applications doing projects would be great such as building, planning a garden space, etc.

Applied Math:
Any activity such as worksheets, computer games, story problems that require students to do math: adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing without a calculator. This is beyond the basic facts.

Math Games:
Many board games require students to use logic and/or math skills. Consider games like Monopoly, checkers, chess, cribbage, various card games, etc. Any game that requires counting and/or strategies would count. These would be hands-on activities done with other people. Remember, no computer or video games!

Real Life Math:
This is any activity that requires calculations that would occur in daily home life such as balancing a checkbook, paying bills, making a budget, planning a trip (mileage), recipes etc. These are separate from Measurement activities, but are similar in nature.

Math Research:
Look up a math topic and read about its history. Who discovered it? How is it used? Which careers would require this knowledge? The possible topics are endless! Here are some to get you started: measurement relationships and conversions between Imperial and metric units; the uses of pi; and mathematicians such as Fibonacci.

All Levels of Math:

Virtual Manipulatives

NCTM Illuminations

Attea’s Math Website List

Purple Math Home

Figure This! Math Challenges

Kid Info Learning Videos

Khan Academy

Free Rice!

Henry Anker’s Website - NEW!

Map Math - NEW!

Number Sequence Puzzles - NEW!

Math Games:

Arcademic Skill Builder

Multiplication Practice

Math Playground - NEW!

Snork’s Long Division Game - NEW!

Rounding Game! - NEW!

GameQuarium Home

Skills Practice from Math.com

Algebra:

GameQuarium Algebra Games

Algebra Lab

Algebra Help

BrunnerMath

Math Forum: Algebra History

EMathematics

Integers Games

Integers Jeopardy! - NEW!

XP Math Games - NEW!

Integer Football - NEW!

Suggested Activities

Overview

Maintaining and improving math skills over the summer is just as important as summer reading.

This year we are asking all middle school students to complete a summer math log. Students will participate in the different types of math activities listed on this site.

Balance your learning by doing some activities from both categories.

ALL students must know their multiplication facts through the twelves.

Use this log to keep track of all the cool things you have done. A parent will need to initial each activity once you’ve filled in the information.

Summer Math Log.pdf

Suggested Websites

Spend at

least 350

minutes doing math!