If you want to get kids excited about math, try a website called http://www.worldmathsday.com/
Here the students can be registered by a teacher or individually with an email account. After students dress and design their avatar with hats, hair, glasses, skin color and clothes, they enter a math game. The game is a mental math race against 3 other students from around the world. The program picks who they play against. It may even be someone from their own classroom. It is fun, exciting and they love it.
World Maths Day is designed to get kids doing mental math at their level (adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing). They love the race against time. They are given a score based on amount correct in the 1 minute time limit. They can improve their score. 3 strikes and they are out. They can choose a new game.
Kids learn about different country names and flags. Kids can keep track of high scores, average questions correct and other statistics. This game can be practiced at home or at school as long as they have thier name and password.
World Maths Day is on March 4, 2009. Kids can practice any time up until and even after that day. A world mathomometer keeps track of the number of correct math answers found to that date. The country and school leading the race is traced daily. Top students and classes are listed in the hall of fame.
This program is designed by 3P Learning. It is highly motivational for the winter months of February and March. They even give away an ipod as a prize. I recommend it for grades 2 through 8. You will like it at home or at school. It is an easy math or computer lesson which a teacher doesn't have to plan!
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