Sunday, November 1, 2009 7:02 AM
# 2 Activity.
Are you kids always bored and tired when you ask them to practice mathematics? Are your students unwilling to participate in math activities because they have little interest in the subject?
Fret not!
Here's another great website to share with you all today, I guarantee you that your child or students will see Mathematics/ problem sums in a brand new light!
This web activity/ online math game is called Batter's Up Basketball! The game is targeted at the 6 year olds. This game allows children to solve mathematical concepts like addition and multiplication in a enjoyable way.
To check this great website out...
1) go to http://www.prongo.com/math/index.html and you will see this and you may select the math concept (either addition or multiplication) you would like to try and click start the game.
2) After making your selection of the math concept, simply click start!:)

3) Next, select your math challenge, single, digit or home run. (Single=Easy, Digit=Medium, Home run=Difficult) For starters, single would be a great head start, and slowly move on to double and home run something more complex and challenging!
4) After selecting the level of competence, a math sum will appear and its time to solve it! After figuring out the answer, select your answer from one of the many options. ( Note: There's a time limit!) This makes solving the sum more exciting isn't it?
This is an example of a "digit" sum:
And an example of a "home run"sum:
Have fun playing this game of virtual basketball with mathematics! Didn't know that Math could be so fun and exciting huh? :)
However,
We rate this game only at 3/5.



Although the graphics are appealing, with the use of colours and great graphics, and the mathematics sums ranges from easy to difficult, which is a great challenge for the 6 year olds (especially the adding of 3 digit numbers!), we felt that children might not stay glued to the screen for a long time as as great as the graphics are, it always stays the same, thus children lose interest after 5 minutes and might wander off to another place after while.
However, we still think it is a good way to practice mathematics, and having children to practice mathematics at least 15 minutes a day is good enough:)
So if your child have 15 minutes to spare, why not get him/her to try to this website out!