Freebie Friday - Free Multiplication Worksheets

Maybe I'm strange, but I happen to like multiplication.  It was always one of the parts of math that I was good at and thought was fun.  This past year I've really enjoyed teaching my daughter multiplication as well, and I thought I'd share some free multiplication worksheets with you for teaching your students.

These multiplication worksheets cover basic single digit multiplication with reviews, double and triple digit multiplication, and multiplication with carrying.  There is also a bonus 'mega' multiplication page for kids who really want to put their new skills to use.  Also included are tips for parents for how to use these multiplication worksheets, and step by step instructions for how to multiply double and triple digits and how to multiply with carrying.

This is a free download and you can print it and use it as many times as you want.  All I ask is that if you share it with people, that you link them back to this page.

To get the free math worksheets, click here, then click file -> print.  It will ask you to save the file.  The file will save as a PDF, which you can then open and print.

You might also be interested in free printable graph paper for math.

Homeschool Curriculum Review: Horizon Math Grade 1

 I love this math curriculum, and more importantly, my 6 year old loves it.  This being her first year of school where she's really been expected to sit still and write a lot of things down, we've had our struggles when it's come to certain subjects, but luckily math has not been one of them.  When I sat down and made a plan for what our year was going to look like in first grade, I had initially planned on buying Math U See Alpha, but was swayed last minute instead by over a dozen homeschooling parents in our area who use Horizon Math.  Math U See may be a fine program, I don't know because we haven't used it, but I can say for certain that I am glad we are using Horizon for our homeschool math curriculum.  We'll continue to use Horizon until it no longer suits my daughter's math needs.

Resource Wednesday - Math Link Roundup

I wanted to share with you a roundup of some of my favorite homeschool math resources.  I've got some great links to share with you today.

1) The Imagination Counting Machine - I love this idea.  While we didn't make a counting machine per-se we did something similar to this when we were teaching our daughter to add.  I can think of a number of different ways you could decorate this or make it out of different materials.  Instead of PomPoms you could feed cars or Legos into it, small rocks, small shells, or anything else that interests your child.