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Basic Training
Reviewing the Basic Facts + – × ÷
If you would like to brush up on the basic facts of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, in the privacy of your own home, dorm room, or net book, you've come to the right place. I will provide you with some online games, videos, and resources to quickly learn and practice the basic facts.
This web site is designed for people who may have been taught the basic facts at some point, but have gotten rusty.
Introductory video:
The next five pages* of this web site are:
Page 2 - Pre-Assessment - Use this page to find out which of the facts you need to work on.
Page 3 - Meanings of the Operations - Helps you understand what the operations actually mean.
Page 4 - Strategies - Strategies are ways to memorize the facts.
Page 5 - Practice - Practice with online games and/or online worksheets.
Page 6 - Post-Assessment - Give yourself a Post-test to see how you did.
*Skip around - Use this pages in any order you wish.
Page 7 - About - Information about the author and an optional next step.
© By Jim Olsen, Western Illinois University
Use this page to find out which of the facts you need to work on.
Here is a video on the online pre-tests (and post-tests) that are available at multiplication.com. and how to print out a multiplication table from www.mathsisfun.com.
Take the online pre-tests. Make a list of the facts that give you difficulty. You will need to learn a strategy for memorizing these facts.
For the online pre-test. You can press Refresh and take it again.
Print out the multiplication table or use the table from multiplicaton.com. (Here is one up to 15x15.)
This page helps you understand what the operations actually mean.
Did you know that subtraction is not always "take-away"? It can be comparison, completion, or missing addend. Click here for a chart showing the meanings of addition (3), subtraction (4), multiplication (4), and division (2).
More information on multiplication can be found at All About Multiplication.
More information on addition can be found at Do It with Dominoes.
More information on subtraction can be found at Comparing Connecting Cubes.
Strategies are ways to make it easier to memorize the facts (instead of just rote memorization).
Two web sites that are useful for learning strategies are:
*Here is a video on how to use the lessons from multiplicaton.com.
More details: Here are some online books by Celia Baron from Google books.
Just like any skill, you need to practice to be good at it.
It is important to not try to master all the facts at the same time. Master a few facts at a time and then do a mixed practice at the end.
Then after you think you've mastered all the facts for an operation, then do a mixed practice game.
Here are three good sites for practicing the basic facts.
Here is a video on
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Disco Dino
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Car Wash
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More Games at multiplication.com
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>>> Level 1 ~ Level 2 ~ Level 3 <<<
| Name & Screen Shot | Operations | Comments/Notes |
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Math Popper  |
Addition | Has a timer. |
SpaceyMath  |
Addition, |
Starts very easy. Gets a little tougher. |
Addition Attack |
Addition | |
Addition Surprise  |
Addition | Connects to the addition table. |
Addition Facts to 20 |
Addition | |
Adding Three Numbers |
Addition | |
Sums Stacker |
Addition | |
Number Jump Fly Smasher |
Addition | You get to smash bugs! |
Counting On |
Addition | |
Connect Sums |
Addition | |
Kite Flying  |
Multiplication, & Division | Fact Families with Multiplication, & Division |
Lemonade Larry |
Multiplication | |
Multiplication Hidden Picture |
Multiplication | |
Targeting Multiplication |
Multiplication | You can turn off the sound. |
Island Chase Subtraction |
Subtraction | 1 to 4 players |
>>> Level 1 ~ Level 2 ~ Level 3 <<<
| Name & Screen Shot | Operations | Comments/Notes |
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Meteor Multiplication |
Multiplication | |
Quick Math  |
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, & Division |
You select the operation. |
Multiflyer  |
Multiplication | |
Space Race  |
Multiplication | 1 to 4 players |
Space Racer X  |
Multiplication | |
Arithmetic Four |
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, & Division |
2 person game - Connect 4 Game Has 3 levels of difficulty. |
Farm Game  |
Addition and Multiplication | You and to multiply and add. |
Mission Magnetite |
Fractions, |
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Product Game |
Multiplication | 2 person strategy game |
Death to Decimals  |
Decimals | |
Fraction Pairs Game |
Fractions, Decimals, & Percents |
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Match Fraction-Decimal-Percent |
Fractions, Decimals, & Percents |
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Late Delivery |
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, & Division |
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Orbit Integers  |
Addition of Integers |
1 to 4 players Private games can be customized |
Integer Warp  |
Multiplication of Integers |
1 to 4 players Private games can be customized |
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Mystery Picture Fractions
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(Fractions) |
Click the problem (on the right) and then the (blue) answer. |
>>> Level 1 ~ Level 2 ~ Level 3 <<<
| Name & Screen Shot | Operations | Comments/Notes |
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Balloon Invaders Percent |
Multiplication | Percent of a number |
Scientific Notation |
Multiplication | Putting numbers into scientific notation and multiplication. |
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Part-Part-Whole
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Addition/ Subtraction |
Has 5 levels.
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Give yourself a Post-test to see how you did.
See the video on page 2 to find out how to access the pre- and post-test.
This web site was created by Jim Olsen. Most of the applets, worksheets, and games he did not create. Most of the videos he did create.
The purpose of the site is to help people brush up on the basic facts of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division, in a quick, easy, private, and self-paced manner.
This site provides with suggestions, online games, videos, and resources to quickly learn and practice the basic arithmetic facts.
This web site was completed 9/27/2010.
Jim Olsen has been teaching at Western Illinois University, where he is a professor in the Mathematics Department, since 1994. After graduation from Doane College (1979) he taught high school mathematics for ten years in Nebraska. His PhD (Educational Mathematics) is from the University of Northern Colorado. At W.I.U. he teaches mathematics courses and teaching methods courses for prospective and practicing teachers. More information on Dr. O can be found here.
Once you have mastered the basic facts, you might be interested in:
Math teachers may in interested in:
© Jim Olsen
