Math Resources

• Math Curriculum
• Math Musings and Articles
• Math Contests
• Math Software
• Math Games
• Supplemental Math Books
• Introductory Logic
• Math Enrichment
• Hands-on Math Manipulatives
• Math Field Trips: Electronic and Mid-Atlantic Region

Math Curriculum

• Math Curriculum Reviews
  Find links to over 100 different K-12 math, logic, and philosophy curricular products, such as Math-U-See, Miquon, Singapore, and Teaching Textbook. Also, read reviews from homeschool families who have used these materials to see if they might work for your family.
• National Math Standards
  The National Council of Teachers of Mathematic's standards form the backbone of scope and sequence documents developed by state and local school districts. You can read about general math learning expectations for K-8 students.
• Comprehensive School Mathematics Program
  A free K-3 math downloadable math program made available, in part, by Buffalo State University.

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Math Musings and Articles

• Saxon Math: A Commentary
  Saxon Math has been reviewed, alongside other math curricula, by independent mathematicians and educators. Read a summary of their assessment on the quality of this math program.

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Math Contests

• Math Olympiads
  Monthly, school based contests held November - March. Open to homeschoolers.
• MathCounts
  Local competitions held in February.
• The American Mathematics Competitions
  The American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) is dedicated to the goal of strengthening the mathematical capabilities of our nation's youth. Any student 14.5 years of age or younger on the day of the contest, and not enrolled in grades 9, 10, 11 or 12 or equivalent may compete. Must register by November.

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• Mathematical Olympiad Challenges
• First Steps for Math Olympians: Using the American Mathematics Competitions (Problem Books) (MAA Problem Book Series)
• Competition Math for Middle School
• Twenty More Problem Solving Skills For Mathcounts Competitions
• The Contest Problem Book IX (Maa Problem Books) (Bk. 9)

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• Math League's Homeschool Contest
  Math League's Homeschool contests are provided to homeschoolers for a fun, interesting educational opportunity. The Math League has Math Contests for Grades 4 through 8, High School Students, and Algebra 1 students.


• Crazy 4 math Contest
  Describe how you use math in any activity you love to do - a sport, game, craft, hobby, or anything else. Contestants must be under 18 years of age. Entries due in July.
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• Stock Market Game: A Simulation of Stock Market Trading
• Wow The Dow!: The Complete Guide To Teaching Your Kids How To Invest In The Stock Market

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• Visit our Contest Page for the most up-to-date list of math and other subject area contests.

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Math Software

• Math Blaster Ages 7 - 9
  Just one title in this award-winning series. In this title kids will learn multiplication and division, fractions, decimals, percentages, estimation, identify equivalents, measurement, read graphs and tables, congruency, symmetry, problem solving and logic.
• Reader Rabbit Math Adventure Ages 6-9
  Now with A.D.A.P.T. Learning Technology that helps children build critical elementary math skills. Kids will explore Pirate Island with Sam the Lion, Penelope the Parrot, and Reader Rabbit. Each fun activity has many play levels, progressing from the easiest to most difficult.
• Scholastic Math Missions with card game, age K-2
  Use real world math skills to earn money for arcade games! Catch the bus, subway or ferry to travel the city and tackle fun math challenges in the stores of Spectacle City. Build addition, subtraction, fractions and problem solving skills while constructing a skyscraper, sorting toys at the toy store, counting types of candy at the outdoor market and more. Earn money for each correct answer- then use it to play exciting games in the arcade
• Zoombinis Logical Journey
  Zoombinis' captivating gameplay features math without numbers. Solving Zoombinis puzzles uses the process of mathematical thinking. This process includes organizing information reasoning with evidence and testing systematically.
• Pajama Sam Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff Creative Problem-Solving
  Pajama Sam is a great choice for visual spatial learners who are strong with mental mapping skills. Each game in this series stresses the importance of listening to clues and building logic skills.
• Putt-Putt Travels Through Time
  Geared for ages 3-8, this game test memory, challenge math skills and encourage creative problem solving.

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Math Games

• Mastermind for Kids
  The classic game Mastermind is now specially designed for kids. With three levels of play, it's the Mastermind game that grows with your child. For the youngest players, it's a colorful game of guessing which animals are hiding. For the older child, the game rules become more advanced and players must guess the order that they're in, too.
• Gamequarium Math Games
  Free online math games.
• ThinkFun Math Dice
• Multiflyer
  Kids will be practicing multiplication facts without realizing it as they engage in this free futuristic online space game.
• Q-bitz
  A visual dexterity game where you recreate the patterns on the game cards using their set of 16 cubes.
• The Game of Set
  A card game for ages 6 and up, which requires quick recognition and deduction. Each card contains one of three symbols (squiggles, diamonds, ovals) in varying numbers (up to three), colors (purple, green, red), and degrees of shading. Players must make a set before their opponent does.
• ThinkFun River Crossing Jr.
  Players as young as 6 can play this junior version and build critical thinking skills, where you must make it across the lagoon by moving planks to form a bridge to the other side. But be careful, there are mysterious sea creatures lurking underneath.
• ThinkFun Rush Hour
  Set up the course on a grid and then maneuver them up/down, back/forth until you can get the red car free from the traffic jam.
• ThinkFun Sudoku 5x5
• Tri-Ominos Game

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Supplemental Math Books

• Math themed "fiction" reading list
  A supplemental way to teach math to verbal learners who don't necessarily "get" all the numbers.
• Spectrum Math series
  Inexpensive consummable worksbooks that cover essential topics and offer essential written practice in each grade level for math.
• The Great Big Book of Super-Fun Math Activities (Grades 3-5)
  Take the "blah" out of rote practice with your math facts.
• Math Mysteries (Grades 2-5)
  Fun way to use real-life applications of math concepts.

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Introductory Logic

• Lollipop Logic: Critical Thinking Activities
  Seven different thinking skills--relationships, analogies, sequences, deduction, inference, pattern decoding, and critical analysis--are presented in a format designed to appeal to the pre-reader. Lollipop Logic employs visual and pictorial clues to introduce and reinforce high-powered thinking.
• Blast Off With Logic: Logic Countdown
  Blast Off With Logic is a series of three books. Logic Countdown, grades 3-4, introduces relationships, analogies, sequencing, "all" and "no" statements, syllogisms, if-then statements, deduction, and making inferences. Logic Liftoff, grades 4-6, continues into deeper logical reasoning, and introduces logical notation. Orbiting with Logic, grades 5-7, expands logical notation, and adds logic diagrams and logical fallacies.
• Logic Links (Mindware's Best Logic Problems : Level A)
  Logic Links builds deductive reasoning and sequencing skills. Kids use the 48 chips to visually organize the solutions to 100 puzzles.
• Mind Benders by Critical Thinking Press
  Classic deductive reasoning table logic puzzles. Available in 3 levels.
• MindWare Math Perplexors
  Story problems that require deductive reasoning, logical elimination and math skills. Kids get clues to cross off words in a list of all possible answers in order to arrive at the solution.
• Stories with Holes
  Each of the 15 books in this series offers you around 10 story puzzles to work out. You get a very basic and seemingly impossible story or mini-mystery to figure out. You ask an unlimited number of yes/no questions until you figure out how the story came to be.
• Formal Logic Curriculum
  Find a listing of formal logic curricula that you can teach at home

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Math Enrichment

• Alcumus
  An online learning system from the Art of Problem Solving with over 1,100 problems & solutions and 60 video lessons. It is free to use, but you must be a registered user.
• Spatial Reasoning A Mathematics Unit for High-Ability Learners in Gr 2-4
  This William and Mary Curriculum Unit sparks the visual learning of students in grades 2-4 through spatial reasoning with one-dimensional (1-D), two-dimensional (2-D), and three-dimensional (3-D) hands-on tasks.
• Beyond Base Ten: A Mathematics Unit for High-Ability Learners in Gr 3-6
  This William and Mary Curriculum Unit investigates the concept of place value and the representation of numbers by using place value and non-place-value systems. Number bases other than Base Ten are featured, especially through historical contexts of early civilizations that developed number systems different from the one we use today. Students will analyze why Base Ten is the surviving number system and investigate applications of other number bases in areas such as computers and electricity.
• Moving Through Dimensions: A Mathematics Unit for High Ability Learners in Gr 6-8
  This William and Mary Curriculum Unit approaches spatial reasoning through one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional tasks designed for students in the middle school grades. The unit also asks students to explore the transition between dimensions and representations of three-dimensional objects in two dimensions.
• Harold Jacobs' Mathematics: A Human Endeavor (3rd Edition)
  Exploring the application and real-life relevance of advanced mathematical topics, students will learn about topology, probability and chance, statistics, logarithms, and more. A good choice for students looking for breadth of mathematical knowledge, rather than further acceleration at an early age.
• The Art of Problem Solving: The Basics
  The classic problem solving textbook used by many successful MATHCOUNTS programs.
• Challenge Math For the Elementary and Middle School Student (Second Edition)
  Over 1,000 problems at 3 levels of dificulty that extend elementary math to the areas of astronomy, physics, statistics, probability, algebra, and other areas. Grades 4-9.
• Life of Fred: Beginning Algebra As Serious as it Needs to Be
  An alternative way to learn algebra through a fiction approach. Check it out.

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Hands-On Math Manipulatives

• Number Balance
  A visual demonstration of number relationships and operations. Set includes scale, 20 balance weights, and a teacher's guide.
• Decimal Tower Activity Set
  Color coded snap cubes that show the concrete relationship between decimals.
• Folding Geometric Shapes
  Innovative folding geometric shape set is perfect for hands-on lessons in symmetry, perimeter, area, surface area and volume. These unique 3D forms bring math concepts to life.

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