What it is: Carrot Sticks is another fun place for your students to practice math facts. Carrot Sticks is a fantastic place where your students can practice their math facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) for FREE! Students get to create their own Carrot Stick avatar to help them practice. Then they practice addition facts against an online opponent of their choosing. Carrot Sticks has students testing their math fact skills against other students from around the world in a completely safe environment (no personal information is shared and students can’t chat). Students earn math achievement certificates for reaching various goals. Note: To get your FREE Carrot Sticks account (available to educators for school/classroom use only) email support@carrotsticks.com.
How to integrate Carrot Sticks into the classroom: Use Carrot Sticks for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division math fact practice. Students love seeing how they stack up to their peers from around the world. Carrot Sticks also offers individual goals for students to reach. Not only are they competing against others, they are trying to improve their own best times. Carrot Sticks is a nice alternative to flash card practice. Students will enjoy the ability to create their own avatar and earn rewards for meeting goals. Carrot Sticks would make a good addition math fact practice center for students on classroom computers. Give students a set amount of time to practice their facts. Keep a running scoreboard by the center with the highest student score in 1 min, 2 min, or 5 min. Carrot sticks reminds me of World Math Day (which my students go crazy for) why not offer the Carrot Sticks website as a “training center” to prepare for World Math Day?
Tips: Send this link home to parents, they are often looking for new ways to practice math facts at home.
Leave a comment and share how you are using Carrot Sticks in your classroom.
Hi, my name is Pete Koomen, and I’m one of the co-founders of CarrotSticks. Thanks for your great review! We’d like to note that CarrotSticks is actually completely free for school/classroom use!
Educators interested in using CarrotSticks with their students can obtain free accounts by emailing support@carrotsticks.com. We hope to hear from you!
Thanks very much!
Pete, CarrotSticks Team
I had previously used Arcademic Skillbuilders with my students. This would be a wonderful alternative. The more sites we can give them to practice their facts in new and different ways, the better!
So, I walked the kids in my class through this site. I even let them watch me challenge a little kid and smoke them! Their first question was, why is that kid online during school hours. We talked about different time zones, home-schoolers and kids using a site like this in a lab.
Now they are hooked. Don’t you wish @ktenkely that you could get a cut? They come to school talking about their carrot sticks. One student said that his computer “froze” and that’s why another beat him at a challenge. Some integrity talks necessary??? They are asking me to join and challenge them in the evenings. If only they knew I was busy blogging and grading! I’ll have to succumb to the membership and make these kiddos happy to compete mathematically against their teacher!
Isn’t it amazing what a little friendly competition will do? My kids are the same way, they love to practice their facts when it means beating the pants off of another kid 🙂