Disclaimer: I received a FREE copy of this product through the HOMESCHOOL REVIEW CREW in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way.

Math is an essential skill and I’m always on the lookout for good math programs to teach my kids. I am pretty average at math and not so great at algebra concepts. My son has passed me up in math skills a long time ago. I was thrilled to get access for a one-year family subscription from MathandAlgebra.com.

MathandAlgebra.com is an online math program that has everything you need to for Elementary, Intermediate, PreAlgebra, and Algebra 1. The elementary math is grades 4 and up. You will need access to the internet, printer, and I would recommend paper and pencil for your student to work out each problem.

All the lessons are taught by Rick Fisher. I really like the video tutorials. They are done on a whiteboard with the instructor showing you how to do problems step-by-step. You only see a close-up of the whiteboard and you can hear Mr. Fisher’s voice as he is walking you through the steps. There are no other distractions in the background that will draw your attention away from the video. Mr. Fisher has an easy voice and is clear and concise explaining the steps.

Every lesson underneath the video tutorial has a download for the worksheets and a separate download for the answer key. If you are familiar with the math workbooks by Rick Fisher they are the same format. They have several review questions for the first few questions or at the bottom of the pages. You can check your answers provided in the answer key.

The quizzes are done within the program. You will have a quiz at the end of each chapter that has 5 questions. The final quiz at the end of your course will have 50 questions. The quizzes are set up to be random and if you need to take a quiz more that once you will have a unique set of questions on each quiz. The quizzes are graded for you automatically. You will see your answers at the end of each quiz.

The website is very easy to navigate and to get to the areas quickly. When you go onto the next lesson your video will mark complete so you can track what you have already done.

To give you an overview of concepts:

Basic Math and Intermediate Math covers-Whole Numbers: addition, subtractions, multiplication, & division. 

Fractions: identifying, simplest forms, improper, mixed, least common, addition, subtraction, multiplying, division, and more. 

Decimals: changing fractions to mixed to decimals, comparing, adding, subtraction, multiplying, division, & more.

Percents: changing to percents, decimals to percents, decimals to fractions, word problems, and more. 

Geometry: points, lines, places, types of angles, polygons, circles, triangles, rectangles, parallelograms, circumference, area, and more. 

Integers: addition, subtractions, multiplication, division, integers with more than two integers. 

Charts and Graphs: bar, line, circle, and picture. 

Word Problems: whole numbers, fractions decimals, word problems in 1-step & 2-step, and multi-step word problems. 

Pre-Algebra and Algebra- sets, integers, positive & negative fractions & decimals, exponents, square roots, order of operations, properties of numbers, scientific notation, ratios & proportions, percentage, slope, and much more.

If you have a child who is motivated by rewards you can earn badges for you quizzes. Within the General, Premiere, and Ultimate badges you will receive medals, medallions, and cups. There are 3 levels of achievement in bronze, silver, and gold.

You have both a Student and Parent Console or a Dashboard. The parent dashboard is pretty straightforward. You can manage your student’s basic information like enroll or remove them. Another area you can see is the course progression. It shows quiz scores also. I would have liked to have more detail in this area like a full overview breaking down the levels and quizzes that have been completed. That way I can see if I need my student to work on certain areas. I would also like to have an option to print for my records in the Parent Console area.

When you are working on the Student Dashboard you can easily jump around in the different courses. It is very easy to navigate.

You can also add in your own Avatar for your profile and look at any earned badges you have earned.

Another area is the Student Transcript which you can print out for your records. I would prefer this to be in the Parent Console instead.

How did I use MathandAlgebra.com in my homeschool?

I set up 2 students. I had to email customer service due to something I did wrong. They were extremely helpful getting my account straightened out and helping me set up both of my students correctly. The instructions were clear and concise. It was completely on my end and it was one of those moments where you feel silly that you made the senseless mistake.

I used MathandAlgebra.com different with both of my kids. My daughter is 17 and has learning challenges. She varies in her math skills by topics and is probably around 4^th grade in most topics. Some areas she is much lower and other areas she could do some problems at a high level. So you can see we are all over the board with her skills. My plan was to let her do this daily as a replacement of her main math curriculum in the Elementary level with the Basic Math.

We started out very good with her in the Whole numbers but it quickly became too difficult for her. She wasn’t able to complete too many of the worksheets and I knew she couldn’t do the quiz. I didn’t want to discourage her and I knew seeing a low score on a quiz would shut her down with her Autism. I did have her watch the videos regardless of not doing each worksheet. She has a tendency to surprise me and will suddenly pick up some new skill. She liked the videos and listened intently on each one.

We went on to fractions which have always been a hard concept other than a few surprises here and there with them. I decided to try Geometry and Charts and Graphs. She loved Charts and Graphs and I wish I would have started there because she did very well with them. She did average with her Geometry concepts. My daughter did anywhere from 3-5 days a week consistently.

My son is in 9^th grade and doing Algebra 1. I am doing MathandAlgebra.com as a substitute to help him in areas that he needs more clarification in the algebra concepts. 

When he has a lower score with his current math program in certain topics I have him find the area on MathandAlgebra.com and work through some of the worksheets and/or videos. He is also watching the videos throughout the Algebra 1 around 3 times a week or more. The step-by-step videos aren’t very long and are less than 10 minutes. It has been a good refresher in many Algebra concepts for him to add in weekly.

As you can see we have been using this different with each student. My daughter will not be able to continue this as it was too advanced for her with her special needs. My son will continue to us this as a supplement. I have really liked the layout of this. It is much easier in this format than when you buy the books from Rick Fisher and then go online to look for the videos. Everything is in one place. One thing I would like to see is a option to purchase a physical copy to go with the program. I know many families who are not able to print this much .I hope to see more lessons and other high school courses added in the future. 

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Disclaimer: I received a FREE copy of this product through the HOMESCHOOL REVIEW CREW in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way.

Are you ready to run the race to exercise your mental math skills? Byron's Games has a new board game for kids available and it involves math. Math Sprint-The Mental Math Game is a fun and innovative way to master those pesky math facts that need to be exercised to build those brain muscles.

Byron's Game’s games tugs at my heart as a mom with a child with disabilities that has had many hospital events throughout the years with my daughter. The “Bryon” in the name was created by a then 6-year-old Bryon who found himself in an extended stay in the hospital. Bryon loved geography and during the time he was in the hospital the 2016 Summer Olympics were happening he kept track of the medal count of the countries. The story doesn’t end there in December 2018 Bryon sent his Continent Race to 130 children hospitals. A portion of every purchase is donated to select children charities. He is still giving back with all their products-you see heart tug for an amazing young man!

Math Sprint -The Mental Math Game is for kids ages 7 and up. You can play as teams or with 2-8 players in a game.

Math Sprint - The Mental Math Game comes with:

Running Track Game Board

258 Cards

10 Dry Erase Cards

8 Runner Playing Pieces

1 Dry Erase Marker with Eraser

Instruction Sheet

All the game pieces included in the game are made extremely well.

The game object is answering questions using your mental math skills to get to the finish line! Your game pieces will make their way around the track while answering math equations from addition, subtraction, multiplication,division, and there are word problems too. You can choose one set of math equations or mix them up if you like.

There are 258 colorful cards and have 2 math problems on each card. You can choose which math you want to play from addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. The cards are color-coded too. Double-digit addition and subtraction is an orange color, simple addition, and subtraction lime green, multiplication and division are blue. Answers to the math problems are in the corner of each card. 10 Blank Dry Erase Cards for you to write out your math problem that is relevant to your child’s needs.

You also have 30 Wild Cards which are pink and also are coach cards with a whistle on it. These particular cards have some tips and other cards are something you need to do. For example, “You got a burst from a protein bar!” Go forward 3 spaces” or “Your shoelaces came untied. Go back 1 space”. The coaching card tips have helpful information about things like adding large numbers, multiplying by 9, and other tips to help with mental math. 30 orange Challenge Cards are math word problems and also have the math answer included on them. These cards they recommend that you don’t use if you have young children playing the game.

The game board has a running track field theme with a place for the cards in the center of the field. 6 blue spaces require action if you land on them and also when you pass it. For example: “do 5 hops” or another one is “jog in place for 15 minutes”.

8 Runner Playing Pieces are all different colors and represent a runner that you may relate too and you can find the information about each runner in the instruction book. Purple is Bootstrap Byron who is holding a rubrics cube, blue Crystal Reaction doing science, orange Carrot McArrow the baseball player, brown Mike Bobberman the gymnasium, pink Groovin’ Gabby doing speed cups, green Mya Marcher the soccer player, white Jeffrey Ulabutter who plays basketball, and yellow is Mary Matherina the ballerina. This feature is fun and unique for a board game-my son decided to void the colors out because he wanted to be blue! You don’t have to go by the sheet and completely ignore it if you prefer certain colors.

There are also a step-by-step instructions to play the game several ways to fit your family dynamics and length of play. The game is simple to play and you aren't reading a book to learn how to play the game. 

The game has races that are best determined by age, skills, and amount of time you have to play in one sitting.

100m Dash- you begin the race at the 100m mark. Starting here you will have a shorter game and it’s good for young players. Also starting at the 100m is a nice way to learn the ropes of the game.

200m Dash-You will start at the 200m mark. Intended for intermediate level and when you have time to play a longer game.

400m Dash- Start on the 400m line to start at. This option is great for older kids or advanced players who need a challenge and plan on longer game play.

How to play- After you have decided which race you plan to run and which cards to put into play you are ready to head to the start area. 

You do not have to play an entire math set of cards into play. You can do as many as you want. Example, you can just play only the  addition cards or you can even mix up all the facts into your game. You can play it to meet your students needs and skills. They do recommend you add in some of the Wild Cards into each game. If you are playing with younger kids remember to take out those Challenge Cards.

The player in lane 1 is “the coach” and begins by drawing a card from the top of the deck. The coach reads the card out-loud. You only choose one problem on a card to put into play. If you don't want to read it out loud you can also show the problems to the other players but, cover up the answer first. Two players are chosen to figure out the math equation. The coach can also let all the players participate in the question.  The first player to say the answer question correctly will move your runner 2 spaces. If you don’t answer it correctly then you don’t move forward. If the coach draws a Wild Card they will play the move themselves. 

Then the next player to play in lane 2 is the coach now and you proceed the same way with the rest of the game and proceed the same way with each additional player.

How did I use Sprint -The Mental Math Game in my homeschool?

This game was played with my daughter 17 with significant learning challenges and my 14-year-old son, mom, and sometimes dad. 

 My kids game up with the idea of each one having 2 game pieces in play. Doing this both had more math problems to solve.

We played several games throughout the last couple of weeks. I usually did this as a math game activity during school days doing smaller games with the 100m and sometimes 200m. Other times outside of school we played the 400m Dash.

A friendly competition of who rules in math!

My daughter is pretty good with basic math but struggles with larger double-digit numbers. We started with addition and subtraction for the first 2 weeks. After that, we added the multiplication facts. We haven’t played the division cards yet as my daughter gets frustrated with division and it would have been a huge melt-down. To keep it fun and challenging for her we kept to the math equations she was comfortable with. We usually played as single players and tried playing as teams. My family preferred to play single player rather than play as teams. We did play as teams a few times. My daughter and dad usually won.

This was a fun game to play. My daughter liked this a lot since she won the majority of the time. My daughter said, “I’m good at the game.” She usually wanted to play more than one round at a time. My son wasn’t as thrilled with the game as he prefers more strategy games. He did say, "I like this math game better than the silly one we played when I was younger that you made us play." "At least the theme is fun and is more challenging then rolling a dice." and  he said, “It’s not that I don’t like the game but, I think it would have been more appealing to me when I was younger.” Fair enough! I do think he would have liked it when a lot when he was younger. It would have been much more appealing to him than dice and flashcards.

I love that it does make learning math facts fun and more appealing than flashcards. It can be adapted to your family and to each student to work on the areas you want to focus on. My son also said, “they should make some fraction, decimal, algebra, measurements, and geometry card sets to buy separately for add-on card set to grow with older players.” My son likes games to evolve and get more challenging at his level. I like his suggestion with having add on cards.

I love the quality of the game and the unique game pieces and fun game board theme. I also am thrilled to see a fun math game to focus on mastering math fact skills that can be adapted to your students' skill level.

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Math Printables

Skip Counting 2's Chart

Skip Counting  3's & 4's Chart

Skip Counting 5's & 10's Chart

Skip Counting  6's & 7's Chart

Skip Counting 8's & 9's Chart

I like to print them on card stock. I cut out and laminate my skip counting chart cards and punch a hole and attach them together with a metal ring.

Addition Facts Cards

All the cards are in the same format:

Addition 0's

Addition 1's

Addition 2's

Addition 3's

Addition 4's

Addition 5's
Addition 6's
Addition 7's
Addition 8's
Addition 9's
Addition 10's
Addition 11's
Addition 12's
Addition Doubles's

I like to print them on card stock. I cut out and laminate my skip counting chart cards and punch a hole and attach them together with a metal ring.

I use the blank space for Bug to write in the answer and afterwards I can wipe off the answer after she is done. Don't you love laminated papers. I cover up the answer so she can't see it with another card. I love laminator's. It is a fun and easy way to practice her math facts.

Workbox Number Tag's

Pink Delight, Castles, Crowns, Horses, and Fairies Workbox Numbers 

Medieval Knights and Castle Workbox Number Tags

Wild West Cowboys Workbox Number Tags

Workbox Task Cards

Workbox Task Card 1

Workbox Task Card 2

Workbox Task Card 3

Workbox Task Card 4

Workbox Task Card 5

Days of the Week File Folder Game

Months and their Number of Days File Folder Game

I made the File Folder Game into one folder. You can make it into two seperate games.

What is an Archaeologist Lapbook

Archaelogogist Lapbook Page 1

Archaelogogist Lapbook Page 2

Archaelogogist Lapbook Page 3

Archaelogogist Lapbook Page 4

Archaelogogist Lapbook Page 5

Archaelogogist Lapbook Page 6

A couple of years ago I came across a lapbook from one of Math U See's newsletter. I knew that it would benifit my daughter. It was a big help for Bug in learning her decimals. 

Now, it's Little Man's time to start on Decimals and he was really excited since it is Cars. Cars 2 is so fresh on his mind that made it that much better.

So to give honors where they are due you can look at "Daniel Academy" blog to see where I was able to make mine. I cannot tell you what a blessing this was for me in teaching place value.

Are you getting excited yet? I still am when I see this lapbook.

Here is the units and the tens place.

Next the hundreds place.

All of Decimal Street.

All you need is:

2- file folders

Black paper to make the street

Red poster board  paper (for handling all the folding) to make the castle and the car.

Green paper to make the units house and car.

Blue paper for the tens house and car.

White paper as a center piece on the cars

Yellow to divide the road.

Don't forget a ruler, scissors, and glue.

I would recommend to laminate it all- not just the cars. Our lapbook has been loved over the years and used heavily. The cars can be wiped off easily when laminated. I actually made two of each color of cars. Just in-case one drove away!

Cars sticker (really you could make your street anything that is your child's favorite.)

I used the Decimal Street copy included in the Math U See Primer as my pattern to make the houses and castle the correct size. As for the cars. Well, that was before I took a liking to blogging and all I can tell you is that I found it on some preschool site that has shapes. :0( sorry.

I store all the pieces in a small vanilla folder with the wipe off marker. That way I am not searching for a marker and I am ready to go.

My favorite part is Little Man in action.

Don't forget to let them play with the cars once they accomplish the problem. It's a built in reward after each problem. Of course, don't forget to put some kind of time limit on it if you want to accomplish anything else.