This page is designed for PARENTS. Listed below are sites and videos that I believe will help you help your child become better at math. For whatever reason, and I am parent as well, you want your child to do their absolute best at math. But if you need further coercing, I would like you to view the top majors to have in our market today. What you notice is that they are math dominated areas. All ten majors are heavy on math and these salaries are starting salaries in blue.
Elementary Level: One of the first major hurdles students encounter at the elementary level is doing fundamental arithmetic with multiplication and division. Here is a website that practices those fundamentals in a speed format: speed drill arithmetic. However, if this doesn't float your boat, you can also practice in a game format: games for arithmetic. You can also try this site out for mathematics games called fun4thebrain. This site lists many games that help with all sorts of areas. The games are free and creative. In addition to these website games, I have found a great deal of success with the KUMON series of books. These books can be found at any major bookstore and they work on basic arithmetic, straight up, no chaser. No pictures like 3 apples plus 2 apples equals what. It's just 20 to 30 problems of cold hard facts a page. And when it comes down to it, on a basic level, you have to do arithmetic well. Kumon also has academies (tutoring centers) which I've heard are good too but if you want an inexpensive starting point, begin with the books. Have your kids do them as part of their chores. Or, with my own, and I don't suggest doing this often punitively, but if they get in trouble ....anywhere (school, the grocery store, their babysitter's place..wherever), they'd have to do a couple of pages of this. One time I had my daughter do ten pages...nearly 300 problems, after an incident...she was seven at the time. Needless to say her math skills have always been one of the best in her class. You turn a negative situation into an overall positive. I also use the pages as incentives for them to earn something. My son asks me all the time can he earn a toy. To that I'll say, "ok, go do five or six pages of subtraction and you can get it". He's getting nice with his arithmetic but he's also learning that nothing in this world comes for free. You have to earn what you get and be thankful for it (I'm sorry I'm a little preachy right now lol)
Middle and High School Level: The second major hurdle in mathematics that I've seen in my ten plus years of teaching is that kids cannot do integer operations fluently....with speed and accuracy. If kids are slow on doing something such as 3 - 5, then many other concepts will be slow as well. Higher math is built on integer operations. Try this one for games, integer games, and this one for speed, integer speed drills. This is actually the same one as the one listed above for basic arithmetic, but you'll have to change the settings to allow for negative numbers. Give it a range of -12 to 12 for multiplication and maybe -20 to 20 to start with for arithmetic. You'll want to widen that range as your child gets more proficient.
Middle and High School Level: The second major hurdle in mathematics that I've seen in my ten plus years of teaching is that kids cannot do integer operations fluently....with speed and accuracy. If kids are slow on doing something such as 3 - 5, then many other concepts will be slow as well. Higher math is built on integer operations. Try this one for games, integer games, and this one for speed, integer speed drills. This is actually the same one as the one listed above for basic arithmetic, but you'll have to change the settings to allow for negative numbers. Give it a range of -12 to 12 for multiplication and maybe -20 to 20 to start with for arithmetic. You'll want to widen that range as your child gets more proficient.