Back to School Special on Free Math Worksheets

With many of you already back to school or heading back to school very soon, we've decided to reduce the price of our free math worksheets by a further 50%. This should come as no surprise to our loyal customers as we like to reduce the price every year.

Here is a comparison of how our new prices look.

Last year, you paid $0 for our thousands of math worksheets, this year the price will be $0 x 0.50 = $0 for our thousands of math worksheets. We've also extended our deep discounts to include any currency, so if you use the Australian dollar, the Loonie, the Pound, the Euro or any other currency, just do the math... you'll find our math worksheets still cost nothing.

Not only have we reduced the price, we've added thousands more math worksheets since last year, so the savings are astronomical. As an additional bonus, we've reduced all of the geometry worksheets by 75% like the one below:

http://www.math-drills.com/geometry/geo_ccstructuresbuild_001.html

We are happy to give such deep discounts to our loyal customers year after year. Have a great school year!

1188 New or Revised Math Worksheets Today

You may wonder how we can add 1188 math worksheets in one day, but sometimes we just go crazy.

It isn't necessarily as epic as it sounds, but today's update marks an important upgrade to our Powers of Ten math worksheets page. We used user feedback and our own knowledge of math education to provide a broad range of worksheets for learning powers of ten.

Learning how to multiply and divide by powers of ten can be an extremely useful math skill for students to acquire. This skill draws on a student's knowledge of place value, decimals, basic number concepts, and other prerequisite knowledge about numbers and operations. The benefits include a better understanding of the above plus extends into other topics in mathematics including fractions, estimation, number forms, exponents, algebra, and measurement.

The Updates

All of the existing worksheets on multiplying and dividing powers of ten by whole numbers and decimals were revised. If you were a frequent visitor to the Powers of Ten page, you might recall that each worksheet had 5 versions and no "All" version. Now, each worksheet includes our standard 10 versions plus an "All" link.

Previously, the standard form and exponent form pages were included in the same document making it necessary to only print the pages you wanted from the four-page worksheet document. Now, the standard and exponent form worksheets have been split up into separate files, so you can download only the form you want.

In addition to the above, we've also made a whole set of worksheets where multiplication and division are combined on the same worksheet both for whole numbers and decimals.

Multiplying and Dividing by all Powers of Ten in Standard Form (Version A)

What's Next

While we were creating all of these worksheets, it occurred to us that some of you might also want to see some negative integers and negative decimals in the mix, so we should have those options available soon.

We also built capacity into our system to create European versions of the worksheets (i.e. using a point for a thousands separator and a comma for a decimal), so you may see those available in the near future as well.

One Additional Note

We've noticed a large increase in our users recently which can mean only one thing ... welcome back to school! Many schools in the U.S. and Canada where a large part of our user base is have already started their school year and many more will be starting in the next two weeks. Please accept our sincere wishes that you have a successful school year and that our math worksheets are part of it.

Even though we get a lot of visitors to Math-Drills.com, we have the capacity for many more, so please don't be shy and pass on the website link to others!

Australian Money and European Decimal Division

We added some new math worksheets this week. Read more about them below.

Australian Money Worksheets

http://www.math-drills.com/money_aus.shtml

If you happen to live in Australia, you might be happy to know that we've created an Australian money worksheets page complete with Australian coin counting and A4 paper sizes. Even though Adobe Reader squishes and stretches other paper sizes like we use in North America, so they print out looking nice, we also like to pay attention to the details.

European Decimal Division

http://www.math-drills.com/decimal_euro.shtml#division

Our European format decimals page now includes decimal division and it looks European! We didn't just convert the U.S. version, we formatted the division questions differently to reflect the procedure that students in many European countries (and elsewhere) learn.

By the way, the entire European Decimals page provides PDF files with A4 dimensions.

Enjoy the new math worksheets!

New Math Worksheets This Week

We've made a bunch of new math worksheets in the last week, and instead of inundating you with messages, we thought we'd put them all in one place.

In no particular order, here is what has been added this past week or so.

Hundred Charts on the Number Sense Page

We re-thought our hundred charts and created new versions including partially filled in hundred charts and hundred charts that include multiples of numbers from 3 up to 10. See them all here: http://www.math-drills.com/numbersense.shtml#HundredCharts

120 Charts on the Number Sense Page

One of our users reminded us that first graders in the U.S. must count up to 120 in the Common Core Curriculum, so we added a couple of rows to all of the hundred charts and came up with these: http://www.math-drills.com/numbersense.shtml#120

Expanded Form with Decimals

Another user suggested we add some expanded form with decimals worksheets which was another Common Core request. We were happy to oblige and created these: http://www.math-drills.com/decimal.shtml#expand

European Format Decimals Page

This page includes a lot of new worksheets since we re-made the entire decimal page into A4 paper dimensions and using the dot comma format used in several European Countries. Coming soon are some European format long division worksheets. See what we have so far at: http://www.math-drills.com/decimal_euro.shtml

Euro and Pound Money Worksheets

There really isn't anything new here, but we split the money page into the U.S./Canada, Euro, and Pound versions, so you don't have to wade through everything else to find what you are looking for. Just click on the flag you want. Hopefully, we will have an Australian version soon if we get the requested images from the Royal Australian Mint.

Number Sense Page Re-Organized

If you are a frequent visitor to the Number Sense page, you might notice things are a little out of place. We re-organized it slightly, so it is in a more logical order.

We hope that you enjoy our latest additions and encourage you to send us a request if there is something missing or needs improvement.

For those who are heading back to school this week in the U.S. (or elsewhere), we hope you have a wonderful first week. For those still on vacation, enjoy the rest of your summer!

Is the World Record 9.58 s or 9,58 s?

This article might be out of date really soon, but that isn't the point. As of this writing, the World record in Men's 100 m is 9.58 s, but for many people, the decimal is written as a comma rather than a point, so the record would be 9,58 s.

At Math-Drills.com, we strive to provide free math worksheets to the World which is why we try to include international versions as much as possible.

On our Money page, we have now split into two other versions, Euro money worksheets and British money worksheets. We thought this would be the best solution rather than packing all of the various versions into the same page. We should also have an Australian version in the near future as we have the permission to use the coin images from the Royal Australian Mint, but we don't have any good quality coin images.

You might notice that our Euro versions of money worksheets include commas for decimals which should look very natural for many people outside North America and the U.K. and downright confusing for those who usually use a comma as a thousands separator.

Number formats aren't as easy as different decimal symbols. There are many formats around the World, but the most common ones are the U.S. format (1,234,567.89), European Format (1.234.567,89) and the SI version which consists of spaces for thousands separators and either a comma for a decimal (French e.g. 1 234 567,89) or a point for a decimal (English e.g. 1 234 567.89). Canada is one country that uses a variety of formats. In English schools, students may learn the U.S. format and/or the SI English format. In French schools, students tend to learn the SI French version.

We've recently gone a step further and begun to create a separate European Format version of our decimals page AND created the worksheets with A4 dimensions. Here is an example of one of our newest worksheets:

Hopefully, we will eventually have versions for every possible scenario, but that might take a while.

But what about other languages, you might ask. What if you are in Germany and want to not only have German number formats, but also German titles and instructions? Well, one day that might come, but in the meantime, you can always use a PDF editor or good old scissors and glue to make the title and instructions in your own language.

Of course, if you are willing to help out with translations, please get in contact with us. We are currently seeking someone to translate the website into a Spanish version, but we are open to other suggestions as well. We are also working hard on our French language version at MathsLibres.com.

In the meantime, if you notice anything that we got wrong or needs improvement, please let us know.

Enjoy the rest of the Olympic Games, one of the best opportunities for summer math activities to come in four years!