Good morning, welcome to our Homeschool Resources: Math. I would like to ask you to take a look at the websites below and let me know if you’ve used these resources with your students or not. As for Charlie and I we haven’t had the opportunity to check them out but I plan on it as soon as possible.
DoodleMaths learning platform creates individual work plans for children, intelligently tailored to their strengths and weaknesses. Designed to reinforce existing knowledge while gradually introducing new concepts, DoodleMaths is an ideal homeschool math curriculum.
Let’s Play Math: Math with Egyptian Hieroglyphs!– Grades 2 & up, with parental supervision
This terrific blog (by a homeschool mom) offers a series of free math challenges using hieroglyphs.
Designed for younger students (about 8-14), you’ll find several links to resources that include
Hieroglyphic Addition & Subtraction -This downloadable and printable pdf offers a few fun math problems in hieroglyphs for kids.
Ten Hieroglyphs Lessons – Learn more about hieroglyphs with ten free lessons including a lesson on “Numbers and Dates.”
From the main page, you can click on links to these other fun math activities too –
The Secret of the Pharaoh’s Treasure
The Mysterious Temporal Freeze
The Secret of Egyptian Fractions
The Puzzling Pythagorean Pebbles
Want more? Explore this website…
Eyelid Productions: Ancient Egyptian Number Hieroglyphs
This commercial and ad-supported website is a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian history that contains a small section devoted to number hieroglyphs complete with a few math problems you can solve using hieroglyphs. It’s geared for ages 10-16 and offers a fun way to learn a little math and history. Be sure to explore the rest of this site that includes information on pyramids, temples, kings and queens, mummification, etc.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
