Improvements to Math Worksheets Search

Many of the changes we made to our math worksheet pages were to improve your ability to search for our math worksheets successfully. Today, we further improved the functionality of the search page by including image searching and blog searching.

If you are a regular user of our search box at Math-Drills.com, you may have noticed that the search results now include thumbnails of our worksheets. Instead of seeing all of the text, you can now view only the images by clicking on the "Image" tab and the "Math-Drills.com Only" tab. Here is an example to illustrate using the search, "halloween."

Click on the image to see a larger version.

As you can see, thumbnails of worksheets that contain the search word, "halloween" are shown and you can visually select the one that you want.

We also added an extra tab, so you can search the Math-Drills Blog only.

We hope you like the new functionality and find our search page useful. Have a wonderful weekend!

New Math Worksheets this Week

At Math-Drills.com, we hope that your September is going well and that you are enjoying learning and teaching math as much as we do.

Thanks to our users, we have created some new math worksheets this week that you might find useful.

Graphing Linear Equations

We started off by playing around with some of the graphing features in OpenOffice and came up with a worksheet for graphing linear equations that are in the slope-intercept form. For those of you familiar with this equation form, graphing is made quite easy because the equation contains the y-intercept value and the slope information (rise over run)

Later in the week, we thought that we should also include some worksheets that do the opposite, i.e. students would find the equation in slope-intercept form from the already drawn graph.

You can find both of these new worksheets on the Algebra page under the heading: Graphing Linear Equations.

One Step Equations

Also on our Algebra page, are some new one step equations worksheets. Depending on how you teach this topic, they might be one or more steps. The main feature of these worksheets is that they include no coefficients on the unknowns and there are only two other terms, both numbers. Basically, the one step comes into play when you mentally try to think of the number that makes the equation true. You may also teach this in two or three steps where students subtract or add the same number to both sides of the equation to isolate the unknown, then solve the other side of the equation. A third step might come into play if the isolated unknown ends up with a negative sign.

Equivalent Fractions

We've had equivalent fractions worksheets on the website for years, but someone suggested we also have worksheets to identify whether two fractions are equivalent or not. In order to accomplish this, we made a page of pairs for fractions and ask students to check the ones that are equivalent. We haven't made it overly easy as the two numerators and the two denominators are always multiples. Sometimes, the numerator and denominator are multiplied by different numbers which makes the pair of fractions unequal. See if your students can find all of the equivalent fractions without getting messed up!

Plotting Coordinate Points

As with the previous two additions, this math worksheet was a result of a request from one of our users. He wanted worksheets where students would plot coordinate points, but only in positive x quadrants or in positive y quadrants, so we made them, of course. You can find these gems on the Geometry page under Coordinate Point Geometry.

Distributive Property in Algebra

Also a request from one of our users, the distributive property is used in algebra to simplify expressions. If students are learning this important concept, then they can now use one of our worksheets under the heading Simplifying Algebraic Expressions on the Algebra page, of course.

Errors

We may have mentioned in the past that we aren't perfect which is why we like to hear from our users when we mess something up. Thanks to two attentive users, we managed to pinpoint and fix two minor errors that were on our math worksheets. If you notice something that needs fixing, please don't hesitate to let us know.

What are we adding today?

Something like this might be nice:

As always, enjoy your day!

Ratio and Proportion Worksheets

We made a slight change to the Fractions worksheets page today. The section formerly called, "Equivalent Fractions Worksheets" is now called, "Ratio and Proportion." Previously, there was only one type of worksheet in this section called, "Find the Missing Number." We changed the name of the worksheet to, "Equivalent Fractions." Hopefully, that isn't too confusing!

The good news is that we also added some other worksheets to this section. Because it is almost autumn, we decided to include a picture based ratio worksheet where students are asked to write ratios for autumn related images. There are two versions of this worksheet, one that only includes simple ratios (i.e. part to part ratios) and one that also includes part to whole ratios.

We also added some equivalent ratio worksheets both with blanks and with a variable x.

Enjoy the new math worksheets!

Coordinate Points and an Autumn Leaf

We just finished adding some coordinate point plotting math worksheets, and we thought we'd have a little fun as well, so we made some Cartesian art using the same concept. Instead of simply plotting the points, the art version challenges the student to plot the points in order and join them with line segments. We decided to go with a red maple leaf design since it is almost autumn and people in Canada might appreciate this since it is one of their national symbols. Enjoy the new math worksheets!

Do you have a specific graphic that you would like to see as Cartesian Art? Leave a comment below or reply to this message and we'll see what we can do.

Input/Output Tables

Also known as function tables, these delightful math staples are now available on Math-Drills.com.

Instead of splitting them up on five different pages, we put all of the input/output tables on the Mixed Operations page even though some of them are only dealing with one operation at a time.

We included a few nice features in the input/output tables. Each individual table is color-coded according to the operation used in the rule. On an addition only page, all of the tables have a grey center column. On mixed operations pages, the center columns are various colors (grey for addition, orange for subtraction, blue for multiplication and yellow for division).

Each input column includes a set of unique numbers, so there is no repetition.

We've also included a couple of versions of the worksheet where we've mixed up the blanks. Instead of only blanks in the output column, each table includes some blanks in both the input and output column. This may challenge a student to use a couple different strategies to complete each input/output table.

There are many other possibilities for input/output tables that we didn't include in this update, mainly because we like to hear from our users and produce math worksheets that they'll use. If you have a need for a specific type of input/output table, please let us know by commenting on or replying to this article. Perhaps you are a middle school teacher and need some tables with algebraic expressions as the rule, or maybe you'd like the input and output columns filled in, so the students have to find the rule. Perhaps you'd like to see integers or decimals. Don't be shy, let us know.

If you are in the U.S. or Canada, we hope you are having a relaxing Labor/Labour Day!