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If you are looking for a way to generate simple math worksheets for your kids or students to practice arithmetic skills, this site is for you! Unlike some other generators out there, this FREE math worksheet generator is very easy to use and will not bombard you with seedy ads.
If your kids have trouble learning basic arithmetic skills, these worksheets will be very helpful. As a father of four kids in public school, I can say that way math is taught in many schools today is very suboptimal. Schools today follow the common core directives, which sometimes lead to teaching some very convoluted ways of doing math problems that are difficult to understand.
But what's even worse is that, because the focus is on word problems, which take much longer than arithmetic problems, students cannot do many problems in a day. Often, they spend most of their math homework time reading the problem and trying to understand the story. It is frustrating for both parents and students.
However, in teaching my own kids, I have found that what they really need is repitition in doing the math, so that they can learn their basic math skills so well that it becomes reflex. This is akin to an athlete building muscle memory. At first, multiplication may seem hard to you. But you can't learn multiplication just by reading about it or listening to some YouTube video. You don't truly know multiplication until you've done a few hundred multiplication problems on paper. And then multiplication becomes as easy to you as writing your own name! It's hard to understand why most public education no longer appreciates this today.
This is the way I learned math as a child...and when my own kids struggled in public school math, this is how I began to teach them too: through daily worksheets practicing what they were struggling with, and lots of repitition. Today they have completely turned it around and are all getting A's in their math classes.
With commitment and practice, I know every kid can do this!
Don't forget to bookmark this site so that you can download your daily worksheets every day!
From a technical standpoint, this app is very easy to use. Just select the type of worksheet you want, and a random one will be generated for you! You can preview the answers, or randomly generate a completely new worksheet if you don't like the one you got. You can download pdf's for both the questions and answers seperately.
Don't forget to print out the answers as well, because if you refresh the page or generate a new worksheet, the problems will change and so will the answers! Once the questions has changed, there is no way to get the old answers back, unfortuantely.
Then, just print the PDF's of your questions (and optionally, the corresponding answers) as you normally would.
If you don't see the type of worksheet you want, let me know and I'll take a shot at generating it for you.
Math worksheets are most effective when done once a day, every day, similar to the Kumon method.
In general, a single worksheet should take the child about 15-30 minutes a day to complete. Any shorter and they aren't getting enough practice to move the needle, and any longer and they will soon get too frustrated too learn. This is also the time period they recommend in Kumon Learning Centers.
For any given worksheet, the child should be timed to see how long they take, and they should focus as much as they can on the math. Try placing them in an environment without too much distractions. I find that the best environments are moving vehicles (in cars or busses, where they have nowhere else to go!), at a coffee shop, or at the dining room table where the parent can watch. Places that are too private (such as the child's room) should usually be avoided because it may become difficult for the child to focus and the parent cannot easily help keep the child on task.
Since these worksheets are randomized, its okay to keep using the same worksheet for a few days or even weeks until they fully master the material. This usually means getting a 100% as well as clocking in at a reasonable time (for example, 2 seconds per addition problem, 10 problems for each two digit multiplication problem, etc.). If they are not there yet, don't give up! Keep repeating the worksheets, and they will improve. For example, it took my son about a week and half of practice to get fast enough with single digit addition to do a whole worksheet in 90 seconds. He improved a bit every day.
You also don't have to restrict yourself to one worksheet a day! For example, you may choose to do three or four randomized worksheets in a single day. Currently though, you will have to download these sheets seperately. Creating the ability to download multiple sheets at once is probably not too hard in the app, though.
If you are interested in this feature, feel free to shoot me an email and I will try to get to it.