Resources for Math and Science Learning at Home

Whether your child’s classroom doesn’t have evidence of quality math and science learning, or you want to boost your child’s education at home, these educational websites will help with math and science learning at home.

Home work: not “homework,” but work at home. These top web picks from teachers and parents provide plenty of extra activities and educational fun for young math and science learners.

Academic Skill Builders
arcademics.com
A series of fun games for children to practice basic math functions

Dreambox
dreambox.com
A subscription-based service that provides individualized instruction in math for kindergarten through eighth grades. Program is highly personalized with themes, characters, and reward systems.

IXL Math
ixl.com/math
Provides problems to practice basic math skills for pre-K through 11th-grade algebra

Khan Academy
khanacademy.org
A not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better; provides free world-class education for anyone—students, parents, teachers—anywhere.

MathABC
mathabc.com
Free online practice so children can improve math skills

Math-U-See
mathusee.com
You can create free, printable math drill worksheets and online drill worksheets to practice skills, and offers an app ($14.99; itunes.com) for on-the-go practice on your iPad.

Multiplication.com
Makes learning times tables fun with cartoons and rhymes, plus students can check their progress with online quizzes

NYC Department of Education
schools.nyc.gov/academics/commoncorelibrary/forfamilies/learningathome/slh_k8.htm
Offers guides in 10 languages so parents can support children in learning math at home

PBS Kids
pbs.org/parents/education/math/games
Online games for children in kindergarten through second grade to help development of math skills

U.S. Department of Education
www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/math/index.html?exp=2
Downloadable booklets—in English and Spanish—for parents to help kids in preschool through fifth grade with math

Also see:

A Parents’ Guide to Quality Math and Science Education

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