KCM Resources for Virtual Math Instruction
KCM has developed online resources that you can use to engage your students in learning math.
KCM has developed online resources that you can use to engage your students in learning math.
This companion site to the book Math Fact Fluency: 60+ Games and Assessment Tools to Support Learning and Retention by Jennifer Bay-Williams and Gina Kling provides games that you can use to help your student master the math fundamentals in fun and engaging ways.
The Kentucky Department of Education has assembled games for familes to play that support mathematics lessons for Kindergarten through Grade 5.
The KCM has partnered with KET Kids to sponsor "Peg + Cat", a TV program that teaches preschoolers to solve math problems. Join Peg, Cat and their friend Ramone as they encounter unexpected challenges that require arithmetic and problem-solving skills.
Turn the pages of a fun number book and count with Allie from Curious George!
Peg from Peg+Cat is looking for buried treasure and needs your help!
Use the ladybird to practice counting, matching and ordering.
Practice counting with Curious George and his meatball launcher.
Discover the pattern as Cookie Monster runs a grocery checkout.
Help Peg from Peg+Cat find the pattern to complete a silly chicken dance!
Practice making patterns with Daisy Nuzzlehead.
Help Bert sort his bottle caps.
Help Flo and Zo clean up their mess by sorting things.
Draw your very own leaf and practice sorting with The Cat in the Hat!
Help This and That sort their toys.
Use blocks to measure feet and then find shoes that fit.
Be an engineer and help Sesame Street characters build things.
Help water the dinosaurs by matching sizes of water holders and watering holes.
Help the farmer wash his animals.
Whoever these characters are, they sure have a lot of coins! First your child will solve a multi-step word problem by placing coins to each character's basket and then she'll adding them all together to find the total number of coins. This game demonstrates the usefulness of visual aids when solving word problems and it's a fun way for her to practice her addition skills.
This pizza needs 8 toppings—and the chef needs your child's help. Explore simple addition using pizza topping manipulatives in this interactive math game. Preschoolers practice counting toppings one-by-one, aided by visual clues to help them get each order just right. This concrete counting game helps kids master one-to-one correspondence, a foundation for success with addition problems.
One fish, two fish, add up all the fish! In this interactive addition game, students help Birdee and Cuz-Cuz total up all the fish they've won. Inspired by tactile addition activities, this game helps students visualize addition without the use of manipulatives, to help early learners transition from solving problems in a concrete way to solving problems using mental addition strategies.
Help the alien spaceship move cows into corrals by counting, adding, and subtracting. This activity helps children learn grouping, tally marks, and place value. As they master counting, they can move on to adding and subtracting two-digit numbers.
Mancala is the name given to a centuries old game that is still fun to play today! Players will utilize strategic thinking and mathematical skills to capture their opponent's colorful gem stones.
That Tutu sure is generous. She's willing to share her treasure...but only if your kid listens closely and gets his subtraction facts right! First Tutu will tell him how many piece of treasure he can take out of his chest, and then it's up to him to pick out some treasure. If he successfully takes away the right number of items, he'll get to keep the booty for himself in this game that focuses on basic subtraction skills.
Hard hats on, that building is coming down! Kids practice mentally subtracting 10 and 100 in this fun, construction-themed game. Each time a child gets an answer correct, a brick is crumbled. Answer enough correctly, and the whole building will come down. This interactive game is perfect for any reluctant math learner.
Manipulatives are used in math to help kids grasp the concepts of putting together and taking away. Kids connect concrete images and abstract equations in this matching math game. These three-step problems encourage kids to build up mental math skills and add small numbers quickly.
“Build” numbers using base ten blocks in this fun number game
Place Value Basketball helps children to understand the concept of hundreds, tens and ones. Children need to recognise the Dienes base ten blocks and match to numbers up to three digits on the basketballs. Place value is a difficult concept for children from the age of 5 to 8 and this game can help them to know the value of each number depending on its position.
Can you split the addition to find the answer? Practice adding three digit numbers by splitting them apart by place value then solving.
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Okta challenges you to a duel! That crazy octopus wants to play you in a game where the first person to choose cards with a specified sum wins. You can choose how many cards, what types of numbers, and Okta's level of strategy.