Rainforest Maths by Jenny Eather

Web Site Review

www.rainforestmaths.com

Interactive Mathematics Activities K-6
By Jenny Eather @2006

This is a favorite site that is used by the fourth grade students at our school to assist with learning mathematics facts.

This colorful jungle looking site has activities for K-6 grade. Just select the grade level that you desire. I chose the fourth grade. Then colorful pictures show up beside the headings of Numbers, Algebra, Measurement and Space. Horizontally across from numbers are the headings: sequencing, operations and calculations, and fractions. Just click on the pictures to bring up the category that you want. Algebra has listed behind it: patterns, functions, equivalence, and equations. Measurement covers meter measurement for the most part. Here the topics are: length, volume, capacity, mass, and time. Finally, after Space is listed 3-D shapes, 2-D shapes, chance, probability, data, and money.

On the home page is an additional link to an Interactive Math Dictionary and Writing Fun. I looked up acute angle. A clever picture of a pelican drew you attention right away. There was a definition and then you could set the angle for the number of degrees that you wanted it. You could change it as often as you liked.

The Writing Fun was an excellent site also. There were writing text organizers. These were downloads and were printable material to use in teaching.

Our school children really enjoy this colorful, attractive site. I recommend it for additional practice in math skills.