Mathematics - 5th Grade

• A+ Math Games
  Online games like hidden picture, concentration and matho, designed to improve student's multiplication, subtraction and addition skills.
• Algebraic Expressions
  In this activity students will work with algebraic expressions - moving from simple expressions to more complex expressions.
• Factor Game
  The Factor Game engages students in a friendly contest in which winning strategies involve distinguishing between numbers with many factors and numbers with few factors. Students are then guided through an analysis of game strategies and introduced to the definitions of prime and composite numbers.
• Figure This Math Challenges for Families
  This site is recommended by the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics. 80 math challenges focusing on mental math and estimation such as, "Why are most manhole covers round?", and "How long would you have to wait to buy tickets if you were the 300th person in line?" Also available in PDF format for printing. Nice teacher section.
• Fraction Game
  This NCTM Illuminations page is an interactive tool involving a flash card type fraction game. Students can flip cards one at a time and match values to the given number lines. Reducing and equivalent fractions skills are enforced. To add to the enjoyment for students, sound effects can be used.
• Fun Brain Fresh Baked Fractions
  Equivalent fractions are different fractions that name the same amount. Click on the fraction that is not equal to the others. If you get the answer correct, Jackson gets another piece of pie.
• Funbrain Change Maker
  Get as much money as possible in your piggy bank by figuring out the correct change.
• Illuminations: Eqiuvalent Fractions
  Explore relationships among fractions on number lines and on squares.
• MathCar Racing Game
  Mathcar racing is a game that not only provides practice for arithmetic skills but also challenges students' logic and reasoning abilities. The student selects a problem from the matrix and is awarded the sum of the expression. If at the end of the game the student has the largest score, or has completed the most laps on the racetrack, he or she wins.
• Mega Converter 2
  Convert all types of measurements quickly and easily with this online converter.
• Mission:Magnetite
  Fractions and percentages. Hacker is trying to drop magnetite on Motherboard Central using his rocket. We need you to help stop him.
• Penguin Waiter
  How much of a tip should you leave for a waiter? Calculate percentages.
• Secret Worlds: The Universe Within
  Using the powers of 10 you can view the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
• Two Minute Warning-Online Math Flashcards
  Flash card activity to encourage speed when solving math facts.
• USU - National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
  Lattice Multiplication, Virtual Abacus, Equivalent Fractions, Finding common denominators. This site has similar activities as Illuminations.
• Who Wants To Be a Mathonaire?
  You have to try to reach 1 million points by answering math questions.