Brain Exercises And Games

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Free Math Puzzles and Games From The US Government.

While looking for some free information for my readers, I found some of the following sites.  These are free to use from our government and I wanted to include these links for you to use in your math studies.

I am sure you could explore and find even more sites to fit your math challenge needs.  I felt the following links would be a good start for you to begin your search.  After looking through a great number of links I felt the following would be beneficial to more people as a start.

Hope you enjoy seeing this information.  I would appreciate any feedback from my readers on this post.

http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/

This link leads you to the Mega Mathematics site at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
There are seven choices of differing styles of math problems and diagrams to go to:
1.  The Most Colorful Math of All
2.  Games on Graphs
3.  Untangling the Mathematics of Knots
4.  Algorithms and Ice Cream for All
5.  Machines that Eat Your Words
6.  Welcome to the Hotel Infinity
7.  A Usual Day at Unusual School

Please go to the link below to see some examples of the knots and how the information is presented.

http://www.ccs3.lanl.gov/mega-math/gloss/knots/knots.html

Knot Theory
This site has printable knot formations for you to try and also to classify based on the various designs.  A great math and puzzle problem to work through, as well as learning a new skill.

Does your child or even for yourself, if a bit rusty on some of your math skills, need some math help.  The following site is equipped with some math tools you might be able to use.

http://mathforum.org/mathtools/

From this website you can download a PDF booklet that gives the parent instructions on various ways you can assist your pre-K through 5th grader learn math and numbers.

Download from this site:  http://www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/math/part_pg5.html#p5

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