It can often be difficult to motivate your child to learn, particularly if you are trying to motivate them to do additional study out of school hours. Often, maths can be a really difficult subject to interest children in as they view it as being a very academic subject and often do not associate this subject with fun learning. If your child has difficulties in this subject area, then this can particularly be the case.

However, maths is an essential subject to learn as their success in this subject will not only impact on their education and their future career opportunities; it is also a vital skill that is necessary for everyday life. Therefore, it is essential that you can get your child interested in this subject and show them that maths can be fun. One of the ways in which you can do this is to utilise the many websites on the internet that arte jam packed with fun games to help your child to learn a variety of maths skills online.

By learning maths through playing games and through the medium of the internet, children can soon learn to associate maths with fun and if they are having fun, they will not only be increasingly motivated to learn, they will also begin to enjoy and look forward to their learning sessions. Here are some of the best websites to help your child to learn maths in a fun and interesting way online:

Firstly, try logging onto www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise. You do not need an account for this site, so anybody can log on and start to learn through play straight away. Select the maths tab at the top of the page. You will find different games that are appropriate to different age groups and abilities and cover all the different topics of the school curriculum. This allows you to focus your child on the topics that are most appropriate to their age range, abilities and areas of weakness.

A second good website to try is www.sumdog.com. Again, this has different games for different age ranges and covers a variety of topics. This is a good site for those with a competitive streak as it allows you to play against others who are logged on at the same time. You have the option with this site of either playing as a guest or creating an account. Both of these options are free.

Finally, try www.coolmath.co.uk. As with the previous two sites, you do not necessarily need to have an account to play and a wide range of maths topics are covered for all ages. In many of the games, your child will not even realise that they are learning maths skills. This site also has games for other subject areas and strategy games which are well worth trying out.

Overall, any site that you can find that will help your child to learn whilst having fun will be beneficial to them. Try typing in maths games into the search toolbar and make a game out of your child finding sites for themselves, trying them out and then rating them against others. This way they will play on the sites that have interested them the most and therefore be more interested to learn.