Math Software
Look here for great educational software designed to help students with their mathematics skills. If you want to try it before you buy it, see if your local library has a copy. (It's a great place to donate your used software, too!)
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Teaching math skills through narrative, I Love Math! is a spectacular animated time-travel adventure that engages students with characters and storylines that incorporate math problems to resolve in order to advance the unfolding adventure. Because these characters are so real and so much fun to play with, students will come back for multiple plays until they learn key math skills: fractions, geometry and measurements. Ages 7 to 11.
Hit the road with your cool new band and discover how much math plays a part in everyday life! Build key math skills as you manage money, buy food, use maps and more to help your band climb the charts. With Math for the Real World you can master all the math skills you need to succeed in real life!
Travel to a remarkable new world and treat your brain to an outlandishly fun and challenging adventure with Zoombinis: Logical Journey. Diabolical Bloats have seized Zoombini Isle and it will take a clever mind to help the Zoombinis navigate their way to safety. Standing between you and your destination are twelve perilous puzzles with four levels of difficulty each. Solving Zoombinis puzzles uses the process of mathematical thinking. This process includes organizing information, reasoning with evidence, and testing systematically. With puzzle reformulation it’s a new game each adventure!
Mastering Multiplication Tables allows you to set up a series of tests that can be varied by making the problems sequential or random and by setting time limits for completion. The scores are stored to help identify weak areas. The test history shows test completion status, number of problems solved, time elapsed, and number of correct answers. Students will love the challenge of beating their own time and adding new problems to their tests.
Math Blaster Pre-Algebra helps reinforce middle school math concepts. Activities focused on decimals, integers, and rational numbers help students prepare for algebra as they learn how to graph numbers and find solutions on a coordinate grid. In addition, students develop critical thinking skills solving word problems and writing equations. Correlated to NCTM Standards. Grades 5 and up.
Times Alive! makes learning multiplication facts more fun than ever. It is based on the Times Tables the Fun Way Book published by City Creek Press and teaches the zero's through the nine times tables. Click here to try an online demo or take a look at a few screenshots. Times Alive! is available for online access or on CD-ROM.
