[This is a back-issue of this website’s newsletter]
Last newsletter, I told you about an online worksheet generator. Using it, you can make as many worksheets as you like for testing multiplication and division by powers of ten. Since the last newsletter, I’ve improved this worksheet generator, and made another one for intervals of time. Both these generators now
- allow you to bookmark the questions and answers of your randomly generated worksheet, so you can come back to them later
- you can also give students the URL to the questions, but keep the answers URL secret. The answers URL is very hard to guess from the questions URL.
You can get these worksheet generators here:
I’ve also collected together links to all the worksheets on my site in a single math worksheets page, and taken them off the printable math games page..
It’s relatively easy for me to make more of these worksheet generators, depending on the topic. If you have some math topic for which you’ve been hunting high and low for good worksheets, hit ‘reply’ and send me an email. I’ll see what I can do.
I’ve also made a spreadsheet that can generate arithmetic worksheets – either addition/subtraction, or multiplication. I use them to boost my son’s mental arithmetic skills. You can download the spreadsheets and watch a video on how to use them at the website. I’ve provided a version for Microsft Excel, and also for OpenOffice.
The game I’m currently working on is not, technically, a math game. I got the source code for the “Colossal Cave Adventure” (the world’s first computer-based adventure game), and I’m busily converting it to a format that can be played online. Some of you might have played the game in the past (and if you did, you’ll surely remember it with fondness and frustration…. how long were you stuck in the maze of twisty little passages, all alike?)
Although it’s not a math game, it has a huge range of potential educational benefits – not least of which are reading skills, comprehension and problem-solving. When the game is ready, I’ll post it to the site, with some more suggestions for how to use it to help kids learn. Until then, stay tuned!