123+Aplusmath

Internet Web Site @http://aplusmath.com/Games/index.html



North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Justification for use: This site allows students practice computing whole number in the four basic operations.
 * Mathematics Goal 1: ** Number and Operations - The learner will read, write, model, and compute with non-negative rational numbers.
 * 1.02 ** Develop frequency with multiplication and division.

Description of content, Instructional Uses, and Best Features
 The web site contains practice math problems in addition, subrtraction, multiplication, and division. There are four different games the students can access such as Lotto, Concentration, Hidden Picture, and Planet Blaster.

Learning Strategies and Teaching Methods
 Learning strategy - drill and practice, games. This web site is suited for individual student practice or remediation. It would work nicely as a math center and can be accessed at home for additonal practice. Students can choose difficulty levels to accommodate differentiation.

Possible Problems
 The site does contain advertisements. To access the full content of the site the computer needs to have java installed. Java games require Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x or Netscape 4.5 or greater. Netscape 4.04 and previous versions will NOT work. If the java games do not work, you can download java from [|www.java.com].

Java needed to navigate the entire web site.