I have been singing the praises of Khan Academy for many years. I am going to go ahead and say it again. This site is amazing. The few problems I had with it before (videos too quiet) software/grading intuitiveness... these things are on point now.
I just used it to help a homeschooler who was math phobic and had not really gotten past Algebra (and some Algebra 2) in one semester, this student has now mastered Geometry and Trig. It takes time and dedication but this site sets kids up for success... and adults too.
Use it whether your kid is homeschooled or not, daily use in the summer will also keep a student from losing ground when school is not in session. Oh, and it covers all subjects now... maybe not in full depth, but it can be a good template to follow as you home educate your kids... for free.
Visit Khan Academy
~posted by Andrea from Nearing fifty and having moments
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Master Math
Master Math teaches middle school math from grade six through Algebra 1. It is a full, stand alone curriculum great for homeschooling, but I have found that it is also a great supplement for whatever curriculum you may already be using.
At it's core it is a free program but the creator of these math videos and accompanying program also does online tutoring should you need it and you can purchase more practice problems as well.
~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom
At it's core it is a free program but the creator of these math videos and accompanying program also does online tutoring should you need it and you can purchase more practice problems as well.
~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom
Teachers Domain Videos make learning more interesting
Homeschool teachers can sign up to use online video lessons through teachers domain. (You can also test drive 7 videos before signing up).
Videos cover:
Arts
Health and Physical Education
English Language Arts
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
There is also teacher training on the site.
These videos aren't always instructional, but they definitely make learning more interesting and apply real world situation to classroom subjects.
~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom
Videos cover:
Arts
Health and Physical Education
English Language Arts
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
There is also teacher training on the site.
These videos aren't always instructional, but they definitely make learning more interesting and apply real world situation to classroom subjects.
~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom
Education Lectures on Learners TV
Learners TV had lectures in every subject plus visual aids for science. This is great for high school students and those looking for material to help them study for CLEP exams. It is also great for college students who need a deeper explanation than they got in class.
Lecture subjects available: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Math, Statistics, Accounting, psychology, history, language arts, literature, economics, philosophy, Astronomy, and more.
Animation subjects include Biology, physics, chemistry
~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom
Lecture subjects available: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Math, Statistics, Accounting, psychology, history, language arts, literature, economics, philosophy, Astronomy, and more.
Animation subjects include Biology, physics, chemistry
~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom
math4children
Math4children strives to make learning and teaching math fun. You will find lessons for grades pre-k-7.
From the site author:
The idea to build this site came one day when he watched with pain how his elder sister tried to teach her two kids math. Jude noticed how painful the lesson was, both for the teacher and kids. He then wondered how many parents and teachers were struggling with the same problem of teaching math to children. Being a very hands-on person, he set about crafting exercises to help his sister teach the little kids. He drew inspiration from his elder brother Kisito whose kid’s website is saving teachers and parents’ lives across the globe.
Though bugged down by his lecturer job at the university he often found time to create exercises to help his sister teach the kids math.
With the remarkable progress made by his little nephews using materials he created, Jude teamed up with his brother Kisito to start www.math4children.com , with the same goal of helping parents and teachers with the daunting task of teaching math to kids.
~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom
Tips for succeeding as a homeschool math teacher
If you are a homeschooling parent, you are also very likely a homeschool math teacher. As if homeschooling weren't hard enough, teaching math by itself can take up a huge chunk of your teaching time, and even a greater share of your pre-occupations. Fortunately, us homeschooling parents have access to the internet and numerous tools for teaching from online games to virtual manipulatives.
In addition to using the many tools available for help with instructing your children on math, you should also set a positive attitude toward math. According to www2.ed.gov, Although parents can be a positive force in helping children learn math, they also can undermine their children’s math ability and attitudes by saying
things such as: “Math is hard,” or “I’m not surprised you don’t do well in math, I didn’t like math either when I was in school,” or “I wasn’t very good in math and I’m a success, so don’t worry about doing well.”
Instead, it is better to make math as fun as possible. Play number games. Have multiplication contests. Let your child see you doing math for fun. Get books on fun math facts, and challenge your children to do a math riddle every day. Before long you will find that both you and your children have fallen in love with math, and you will make your entire homeschooling experience more enjoyable.
Before I go, I want to add a last bit of advice. Spend time on word problems every day. I have been working with a young man recently who can crunch numbers easily. Show him a math problem and he can do it... unless it is in word form. When a problem is in word problem form, he cannot figure out where to start. It is quite a conundrum that can be avoided by working with word problems early on and introducing math to solve problems instead of numeric functions to figure out.
~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom
In addition to using the many tools available for help with instructing your children on math, you should also set a positive attitude toward math. According to www2.ed.gov, Although parents can be a positive force in helping children learn math, they also can undermine their children’s math ability and attitudes by saying
things such as: “Math is hard,” or “I’m not surprised you don’t do well in math, I didn’t like math either when I was in school,” or “I wasn’t very good in math and I’m a success, so don’t worry about doing well.”
Instead, it is better to make math as fun as possible. Play number games. Have multiplication contests. Let your child see you doing math for fun. Get books on fun math facts, and challenge your children to do a math riddle every day. Before long you will find that both you and your children have fallen in love with math, and you will make your entire homeschooling experience more enjoyable.
Before I go, I want to add a last bit of advice. Spend time on word problems every day. I have been working with a young man recently who can crunch numbers easily. Show him a math problem and he can do it... unless it is in word form. When a problem is in word problem form, he cannot figure out where to start. It is quite a conundrum that can be avoided by working with word problems early on and introducing math to solve problems instead of numeric functions to figure out.
~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom
Glencoe Algebra 1 Online Study Tools
With or without the addition of the textbook, that you can purchase at Amazon, for just a few dollars, The Glencoe Algebra 1 online study tools will walk your student through each and every step of Algebra 1. They can use self check quizzes, learn vocabulary and take advantage of extra examples, and do chapter tests online. The tests and quizzes are graded.
~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom
~posted by Andrea from Notes from a Homeschooling Mom
Math Vids Free math videos
Mathvids.com provides free math videos for all levels of math from Middle school math through Discrete math. If your student is having trouble learning a concept from their math book, you can help them find the corresponding Mathvid video help them understand better.
You can also use the video as your own online textbook, following the videos and exercises in order. You would need to purchase a workbook or find worksheets to go with it though.
There are ads on these videos, but you can pay a reasonable subscription fee for an ad-less version. I don't mind looking at ipad commercials though. The paid subscription includes the ability to download videos for later use and the ability to make the videos full screen.
Subjects included:
Basic math
Pre-Algebra
Algebra
Geometry
Advanced Algebra (II)
Trig/Precalc
Statistics
Calculus (1,2,3)
Beyond Calculus
College statistics
Linear Algebra
Differential Equations
Discrete Math
You will have to become a member (free) to use the site. Great for middle school, high school, and college.
You can also use the video as your own online textbook, following the videos and exercises in order. You would need to purchase a workbook or find worksheets to go with it though.
There are ads on these videos, but you can pay a reasonable subscription fee for an ad-less version. I don't mind looking at ipad commercials though. The paid subscription includes the ability to download videos for later use and the ability to make the videos full screen.
Subjects included:
Basic math
Pre-Algebra
Algebra
Geometry
Advanced Algebra (II)
Trig/Precalc
Statistics
Calculus (1,2,3)
Beyond Calculus
College statistics
Linear Algebra
Differential Equations
Discrete Math
You will have to become a member (free) to use the site. Great for middle school, high school, and college.
Elementary Statistics
This is an introduction to data analysis using graphical and numerical techniques to study atterns and departures from patterns. From the site:
It’s all about the students, declare Professors of Applied Mathematics Susan Dean and Barbara Illowsky. Their journey into the world of distance learning began with students learning in televisions’ glow as they absorbed the intricacies of a class often referred to as “Sadistics.”
Interdisciplinary approach to math
If you've ever had a child ask you why they needed to know a specific function of math, this website will help you.
Math.dartmouth.edu has a series of ebooks that teaches math in art, computer science, data analysis, literature and writing, and much more.
Math.dartmouth.edu has a series of ebooks that teaches math in art, computer science, data analysis, literature and writing, and much more.
Living Math.... for struggling learners and others.
The Living Math website is a great resource for teaching math to struggling learners and kids who who need a more natural approach.
From the website:
From the website:
This site would not exist if it were not for my son who loved reading, but had learned to hate math. Even as he was at a part time school for accelerated learning and could go at his own pace to suit an early reading and language ability, math became more and more an area of anxiety and dread. At the beginning of his 3rd grade year, we left the traditional school environment and decided to homeschool full time to find another way to learn, before the negative attitudes toward learning became permanent.
Big IQ Kids
Big IQ kids has lots of free and fun animated online resources for elementary age homeschoolers.
BigIQkids.com presents a unique learning method designed to help each child develop the skills needed to perform to his/her full potential. Our award winning programs are designed for students in grades K-6 and promote spelling efficiency, vocabulary building, math fact mastery and US geography knowledge via multimedia reinforcement and independent learning.
Science and math videos and lessons at Neo k-12
If you are tired of searching youtube for education videos you can use Neo k-12 which is a website that has compiles hundreds of vidoes, lesson plans and games that you can use to homeschool. Subjects include
Physical science
Life science
Earth and space
Social Studies
Human Body
English
Basic math- Trigonometry
Free websites for teaching times tables (multiplication)
These are the methods I used to teach my daughter.
Yes, I seriously used School House Rock to teach multiplication. I purchased the DVD's and played them in my car for about a year. You can purchase the videos for your car dvd player, or you can watch the videos for free online.
In addition to this, I used certain tricks that helped them multiply larger numbers that they had not memorized.
Yes, I seriously used School House Rock to teach multiplication. I purchased the DVD's and played them in my car for about a year. You can purchase the videos for your car dvd player, or you can watch the videos for free online.
In addition to this, I used certain tricks that helped them multiply larger numbers that they had not memorized.
FREE Middle School Math Resources
I have listed many homeschool math problems over the last couple of years, and many of them have included middle school resources. At the cost of being redundant, I will list middle school math resources that may include programs I have listed before.
Khan Academy has elementary to middle school math videos where the math concepts are explained through video. I would use this program plus and middle school math workbooks for 6th grade math/ arithmetic (level 1-7), Pre-algebra (7th grade) level 8-11 , and Algebra 1 (8th grade) levels 12-13. If you use Khan Academy's Free adaptive math program, you will also find that Geometry is sprinkled in between the units... or you can go to the main page and follow video tutorials in the same order as the pages in your math workbook.
AAAmath.com lists math by grade level. Sixth grade math teaches place value through scientific notation and patterns. Seventh grade math teaches fractions, decimals, percents, and basic geometry. Eight grade math teaches more Geometry. You can also opt to teach algebra on from this site for 8th grade math.
Internet4classrooms.com has math lessons and resources arranged by grade.
It is important to remember that middle school math is basically review of all of the previous years at a greater level of difficulty, and then pre-algebra. If the student is ready, they will then do algebra. For my son who is very successful in math, he took two years to learn pre-algebra, then followed that by algebra. The review sixth grade math is not really necessary unless the child has struggled in previous years, but you will want to take your time with pre-algebra to ensure they have a good understanding of the concepts.
Khan Academy has elementary to middle school math videos where the math concepts are explained through video. I would use this program plus and middle school math workbooks for 6th grade math/ arithmetic (level 1-7), Pre-algebra (7th grade) level 8-11 , and Algebra 1 (8th grade) levels 12-13. If you use Khan Academy's Free adaptive math program, you will also find that Geometry is sprinkled in between the units... or you can go to the main page and follow video tutorials in the same order as the pages in your math workbook.
AAAmath.com lists math by grade level. Sixth grade math teaches place value through scientific notation and patterns. Seventh grade math teaches fractions, decimals, percents, and basic geometry. Eight grade math teaches more Geometry. You can also opt to teach algebra on from this site for 8th grade math.
Internet4classrooms.com has math lessons and resources arranged by grade.
It is important to remember that middle school math is basically review of all of the previous years at a greater level of difficulty, and then pre-algebra. If the student is ready, they will then do algebra. For my son who is very successful in math, he took two years to learn pre-algebra, then followed that by algebra. The review sixth grade math is not really necessary unless the child has struggled in previous years, but you will want to take your time with pre-algebra to ensure they have a good understanding of the concepts.
FREE high school science and math books
Learn physics, chemistry, and high school math with FHSST. These free texts are designed for students in South Africa, but homeschoolers should still be able to make good used of them. The math is organized differently, but it looks just like American High School math.
What is FHSST?
FHSST (Free High School Science Texts) is a project that aims to provide free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12 science learners in South Africa.
In the interests of openness in all ways we've written a how-to with all our learnings for you to download. It complements the great case study of FHSST completed by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME).
Illustrated Textbook Answers for Algebra 1
If you are having trouble understanding how to work out your Algebra 1 problems, you should check out this Illustrated Textbook Answers: Algebra 1.
Combine this free online resource with an inexpensive algebra workbook and you will have a complete program to allow your Algebra student to self-teach
More about the program:
Illustrated Textbook Answers is following a standard Algebra 1 outline based on current textbooks. The textbook provides six illustrated answers for every algebra concept in contrast to the usual one explanation found in a typical algebra textbook.
The answers are based on hundreds of thousands of online sessions with students that have shown that step-by-step instructions with “motion lines” are extremely useful in understanding algebra. The motions lines are similar to a teacher’s hand gestures which have also proven to be effective in increasing understanding.
The step-by-step explanations can be distributed freely to students. Any teacher or educator can use illustrated answers to augment their current textbooks and day-to-day classroom teaching. However, the content is copyright protected and may not be incorporated into websites, textbooks, or other materials without express written permission.
College Algebra Book Online
If you are studying for an Algebra Clep or math AP exam, you may purchase an expensive college math textbook or you can download this free online college algebra book.
The Online Textbook Was Written By:
We are two college mathematics professors who grew weary of forcing our students to purchase expensive college algebra textbooks whose mathematical content has slowly degraded over the years. Our solution? Write our own. The twist? We made our college algebra book free and we distribute it as a .pdf file under the Creative Commons License.
If you need further study consider buying College Algebra Demystified
Geomaths by University College at London
The Geomaths math help notebooks allows students to learn high school math functions on their own.
These units combine science and math answering the question, "why do I have to learn this?"
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These units combine science and math answering the question, "why do I have to learn this?"
Each of the first-level and second-level modules starts with a geological context in which some maths arises. From there you can go into the "MathHelp Notebook" on that particular topic.
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Trigonometry 1 by PPLATO
PPLATO, Promoting Physics Learning & Teaching Opportunities has a basic mathemetics Ebook that teaches Trigonometry. This is provided by the University of Plymouth
Trig seems to be a lost subject these days for highschoolers, with most school systems now teaching Algebra 2 and intro to Caluclus. But should your child want to learn trig, this website will help you.
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Get extra Trig Help by using Trigonometry For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))
Most Recently Added resources found at this link
Trig seems to be a lost subject these days for highschoolers, with most school systems now teaching Algebra 2 and intro to Caluclus. But should your child want to learn trig, this website will help you.
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Get extra Trig Help by using Trigonometry For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))
Most Recently Added resources found at this link
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