ixl.com - Great Math Website

I hope you are all having a great weekend.  On Friday, I had students bring home a letter about the website ixl.com in their Friday Folder.  This is a great website for kids to practice different math skills we have already covered or preview new ones to come.  When you go to the website the students will need to log in with the same username and password which they use to log in to the computers at school.  

Students can choose a grade level to start with and I have encouraged the students to start with the third grade level to help them get used to how the program works.

Then they can look through the list of topics and choose lessons they might need to work on or ones similar to what we are studying in class.  Our next unit will include angles and we will be doing a lot with fractions during the rest of the year, so those might be good topics to start with.

This program does not practice basic math facts, so I am still encouraging students to practice them using xtramath.org and the backs of their mad minutes.  I know studying the basic facts is not something most students like to do, but it is so important as we work on longer multiplication, division, and fractions.

I hope you and your child enjoy ixl.com.  Our class previewed it on Thursday during computers and as a class we answered over 2,000 problems.  I was pretty impressed.

If you have any questions please let me know.