- Accurate Census Taking and Orderly Ants (Math Chat) - Frank Morgan; Christian Science Monitor
A column of ants marches in single file, until one ant falls away and they then march two by two, until another ant falls away and they then march three by three, and so on until finally they are marching 10 by 10. How many ants were there to start with?
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- All About Multiplication (AAA Math) - John Banfill
Free, interactive math exercises, lessons, and games teaching multiplication tables, fact and multiplication of whole numbers, decimals, and fractions.
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- allmath.com - Arbor Media, Inc.
Math tools (flash cards, a metric converter); games (magic square), and reference pages: biographies, a glossary, the multiplication table, metric conversion factors, and an ask an expert service.
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- And the Answer is... - Energy Conservation Enhancement Project
Comparing cars and the cost of gasoline: a variety of multiplication and division problems. Math objectives: 1. Define terms related to multiplication and division. 2. Accurately complete a variety of multiplication and division problems. 3. Derive and
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- Appetizers and Lessons for Math and Reason - Alan Selby
Logic Appetizers to test or or improve reading, writing and thinking skills, with definitions, concepts and proofs in many subjects (Chains of Reason; One or Two-Way Implications; Islands & Divisions of Knowledge; Deception); Advice (How to Study
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- Area, Arithmetic and Algebra (SMILE) - Larry Freeman, Kenwood Academy
A lesson designed to show teachers how area of rectangles and squares can motivate the learning of multiplication rules for certain binomials; how students can perform arithmetic based on these identities; and several applications of the "distributive
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- Argus Teaches Multiplication Facts - Jason McIntosh, Think Big Games
Help kids aged 8 - 12 learn basic multiplication facts essential to success and confidence in later math. This tool uses drill-style lessons with great graphics, sound, and animations to help students memorize
multiplication facts 1 through 12. Adjustable
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- ArithmaClick - J. D. Brown
Practice addition and multiplication while keeping score.
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- Arithmetic and Algebra Review Problems - Alan Selby
Arithmetic and algebra review problems, with answers, to help people check or diagnose arithmetic skills and other calculation or algebra skills. Includes a 20x20 times table.
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- Auto Rueda: Multiplication Tables - Jose Manuel del Toro Pérez; del Toro Ediciones
An effective method that fosters self-learning of the multiplication tables.
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- BetaMaths Software - Anthony Healey
Free Windows Vista or XP times table software, also available in French. The author writes: Software to learn the times tables. You can set addition, subtraction, number bonds, multiplication and division exercises at home, with no worksheets to print
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- Big Daddy's Freeware - Vincent DiCarlo
Small, simple DOS programs to download for effective drilling of basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
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- Calculations A: On-line Activity - Basic Arithmetic - Gilbert Chandler; University of Melbourne, Australia
Questions that can be used to practice simple arithmetic skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and check your answers online. The levels of difficulty can be varied for each question.
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- CMP Software - Connected Mathematics Project, Michigan State University
Downloadable software designed to accompany CMP units. For the Factor Game winning strategies involve distinguishing between numbers with many factors and numbers with few factors; students analyze game strategies and are introduced to the definitions
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- Computer Solution Central
Shareware games for Windows machines and PDAs. Includes a free solitaire game, educational games focusing on addition and multiplication, and a date calculator.
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- Conceptual Math Media, Inc.
Math educational products for both the classroom and family. Master multiplication facts and divisibility rules with PrimePak playing cards; create equations crossword-style with the Equate board game, also available via e-mail. Order products online
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- Curious and Useful Math - Clay Ford
Tricks and rules for quickly calculating certain types of math problems, many from the 1888 book The Carpenter's and Joiner's Pocket Companion. Multiplication Tricks; Division Tricks; Squaring Tricks; Can it Divide...?; Age Math; Bible Numbers; Box Tricks;
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- A Different Kind of Multiplication - David P. Stern
Roman numerals were an improvement on older notation and useful for the abacus, but seemingly impractical for multiplication. Yet a multiplication method was developed, and is described here. The Romans did not understand why it worked, but we now realize
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- Dositey.com - Dositey Corporation
Interactive lessons, exercises and worksheets, educational games, open-ended questions in Math and Language Arts, and more.
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- Encarta Online - Microsoft Corporation
Browse or search for math lessons and activities for K-12 students and teachers, from problem solving to probability and more.
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- Equate: The Equation Thinking Game - Conceptual Math Media, Inc.
Have fun creating equations crossword-style. An arithmetic version of Scrabble, Equate is a math board game for family and classroom. Earn higher scores by using division or fraction tiles, or by playing tiles on premium board positions that double or
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- The Euclidean Algorithm - David Sumner
Find the greatest common divisor (GCD) online using the Euclidean Algorithm. Enter two numbers, and the JavaScript calculates GCD, least common multiple (LCM), and linear combination; and displays the steps of the algorithm.
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- The Facts, Gimme Just the Facts! (CEC) - V.Halsted, Lincoln Elementary, Woodburn, Oregon
Learning multiplication tables (grades 2-6). A lesson designed to help all students systematically learn their times tables. From the Columbia Education Center collection of math mini-lessons.
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- The Feeling of Power - Isaac Asimov
Science fiction that explores a time when only computers know how to multiply. "...seven times three is twenty-one." "And how do you know that?" asked the congressman. "I just remember it. It's always twenty-one on the computer. I've checked it any number
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- Find the Prime Factors of a Number - Washington University Mathematics Dept., St. Louis, MO
A prime number is any number with no divisors other than itself and 1, such as 2 and 11. Any number can be written as a product of prime numbers in a unique way (except for the order). Enter a number (with a maximum of 9 digits), and the form will return
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- Fixed-point arithmetic: multiplication - Paul Molitor; Universitat Hälle
A collection of Java applets, each showing a different method of fixed-point multiplication: Binary representation, the Schoolmethod, Booth's algorithm, and Parallel multiplication, written for a course in Computer Science ('Computer Arithmetic'). After
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- Flash Cards for Kids - Donovan Follette
Currently, Flash Cards (shareware for Windows) supports addition, subtraction, and multiplication. The addition facts are enabled in the download file. The subtraction and multiplication facts can be enabled with a registration fee of $12.00. (Washington
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- Free Multiplication Practice - Fran Hilgendorf, Home Education Resources
Colorful multiplication worksheets and activities in easy to print PDF format.
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- Fundamentals of Multiplication (SMILE) - Carl D. Mason, Suder School
A lesson for grade 3 designed to teach students the fundamentals of multiplication: that multiplication is a quicker and neater form of addition; how numbers in multiplication are placed into groups (or sets); and how students can simulate the concept
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- Fun with maths! - Stuff Media, U.K.
Puzzles for which you need shockwave installed on your computer. (You can download it from this site.) Number Square (add numbers and see them grow, smash them with a fist, make patterns); Think of a number between one and nine, multiply it by 5... will
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- Future School
Developer of educational software, online tutoring, and home schooling courses. Video tutorials. Sample lessons and ordering information available.
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- Games Using Multiplication (SMILE) - Amaechi Onyeali, Carter Elementary School
A lesson for the elementary grades in which students play two games to reinforce their multiplication facts and their addition skills. From the Recreational and Creative Math section of a collection of almost 200 single concept lessons by the Science
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- Go the Distance - Francie Caraker; SCORE Mathematics
Who needs math? Pilots do. This lesson applies math functions to convert kilometers to miles and calculate travel time for different aircraft. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators SCORE
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- The Great Calculator Debate: Concerns About Calculator Use in Elementary Schools - Thomas W. Cowdery
Written for the Illinois State University College of Education course Principles of Curriculum Design, this student paper draws on the NCTM Standards, NEA Public Agenda studies, voices from Mathematically Correct, meta-analysis and other research into
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- HappyMath Multiplication Kit - Reinhard-Bernard Enterprises
Memorizing multiplication facts is made easy and fun for children by combining pictures, rhymes, rhythms, stories, and color. Sample the sound on the Web, or purchase the kit, which includes an instruction manual, audio tape, multiplication cards, matching
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- Harry Bohan's Web Site
Site contains personal info (education, jobs, list of publications), hyperstudio stacks of K-8 math programs (some available for download here, all available by sending the required number of HD disks to Harry Bohan), an extensive page on teaching multiplication,
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- Home Page of Andrei Toom, André Toom - Andrei Toom, Department of Statistics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
The home page of one of the developers of the Toom-Cook, or Toom-3 algorithm, a method of multiplying two large integers. Toom's English-language mathematics articles, published in journals such as the Journal of Statistical Physics, include "Non-Ergodic
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- How Many Different Paths - Karen Wheeler; SCORE Mathematics
A discrete mathematics lesson for working on addition and multiplication skills, with connections to counting, adding, multiplying, and Pascal's triangle. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators
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- Integer Jim's Math Squad - Jim Bennett
Creative ways to use art, writing, research, and Internet projects to make math more exciting for students. The Math Squad art projects are year-long projects; rather than "lesson oriented," they create an "adventure theme" that facilitates math instruction.
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- Introducing Powers And Models-II (SMILE) - Sarah Barrett, Mars Hill School
A lesson designed to teach students powers and models using Multiplication Rummy, a card game that provides practice in rapid calculation to increase the acuity
of excellent students. From the Arithmetic section of a collection of almost 200 single
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- Investigating LCM and GCF Using Rods - Margo Lynn Mankus
The objective of the lesson plan Investigating LCM and GCF Using Rods is to look at the Least Common Multiple (LCM) and Greatest Common Factor (GCF) from "hands-on" pattern-building to using set theory. With teachers as the intended audience, the activity
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- Javascript School Math Toolkit - Jeff LeMieux
JavaScript Pythagorean solver, proportion problem solver, percent proportion problem solver, chord to circumference calculator, denominator to repeating decimal checker, subtraction worksheet generator, addition worksheet generator, multiplication worksheet
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- John and Betty's Journey into Complex Numbers - Matt Bower
A children's book-on-the-Web from Australia, designed to introduce complex numbers in story form in a way that is intuitive and enjoyable for students. John, Betty, and their dog Trevor solve a series of problems designed to introduce integers, fractions,
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- John Olive's Home Page - John Olive, Department of Mathematics Education, The University of Georgia
Course descriptions and requirements for Computers in Mathematics Education and Investigations into the Teaching of Mathematics Grades 7-12. Recent articles, available online, include Computer Tools for Interactive Mathematical Activity in the Elementary
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- Just Multiply It! - Stevan Krajnjan, Timesavers for Teachers
Just Multiply It! systematically identifies, records and remedies areas of the
multiplication table that have not yet been committed to memory. Purchase a downloadable PDF file.
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- Kids SyvumBook Series - Syvum Technologies, Inc.
Interactive educational software for English, Knowledge, and Math, targeted for kids ages 6-12. Each Kids SyvumBook offers multimedia strips and main activity frames. Four levels of Math SyvumBooks help improve arithmetic, algebra, and basic number skills
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- Learning the Multiplication Combinations - David Chandler
"Philosophical points" on learning and teaching the multiplication combinations, plus notes on grouping, to accompany printable resources: 100's squares (numbered and blank); flash cards; and a flashcard drill progress chart.
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- Learning to Factor - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math FAQ
Examples of factoring from the Dr. Math archives: trinomials; greatest common factor (GCF); least common multiple (LCM); least common denominator (LCD); dividing polynomials by monomials; quadratics; and more.
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- Learning to Multiply - Math Forum, Ask Dr. Math Common Question
A selection of answers to questions about learning to multiply, with times tables.
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- Learning To Multiply - Math Forum, Teacher2Teacher FAQ
Answers to a frequently asked question: How do I help students learn their multiplication facts?
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