Updated on March 8, 2017
More than a dozen sites with math word problems. Some use basic math skills for elementary students. Others require more complex skills with high school level formulas.
Khan Academy offers video tutorials and guided exercises for many types of word problems appropriate to students in grades 3-12. The problems involve skills in basic number operations, fractions, ratios, age, multi-step, averages, rational numbers, coordinate planes, absolute value, money…
From site: From 1999-2002, Making Mathematics matched students and teachers in grades seven through twelve with professional mathematicians who mentored their work on open-ended mathematics research projects. Although our project has ended, we encourage you to look through our mathematics…
Math Playground has word problems for students in grades 2-8. The problems for grades 2-5 are incorporated in games. To help teach solving skills, there are video explanations and interactive thinking blocks, virtual manipulatives to help kids visualize the equations.
KidZone has word problems by grade level, grades 1-5, and theme. The themes include the seasons and holidays. Each time you select a problem a new problem is generated using the same scenario with different numbers. This gives kids added…
Practical Uses of Math and Science, PUMAS, is a collection of 90 examples showing how math and science topics taught in grades 9-12 can be used in interesting settings, including every day life. These examples are written primarily by scientists,…
From site: This activity begins with the reading aloud of several math-oriented stories, identifies key mathematical vocabulary terms, models math story writing, and then gives students an opportunity to write addition and subtraction stories. Students first draw a series of…
From site: On this website you will find thousands of our free mathematics enrichment materials (problems, articles and games) for teachers and learners from ages 5 to 19 years. All the resources are designed to develop subject knowledge, problem-solving and…
A+ Click is an interactive collection of more than 6000 math word problems for grades 1 to 12. Problems focus on common core standards for understanding, spatial reasoning and problem solving. Ad-free and no sign in to use.
Note: Aunty Math has retired and is not longer available from DuPage Children’s Museum. You can still view past challanges, though, using the Wayback Machine archive of this content. Here is a link to Aunty Math 2008, with several past…