Count Us In
15 games designed to help children understand basic number concepts (kindergarten level). You can also download the games to play on your PC/Mac. www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm
Math Galaxy
Scroll down to "Games" to play Word Jumbles, Riddles, Bridge the Swam, or Labyrinth. You can choose what operation to practice in the game, or to use fractions or decimals, so the same game is useful for many areas of math. The site also sells stand-alone software with full versions of these games plus instructional & math practice modules. www.MathGalaxy.com
Kuutigo - Wooden Math Puzzle
This is not an online game but a fun, wooden math puzzle that helps students practice addition and subtraction multiplication, or linear equations. www.kuutigo.fi
Magnet
Internet maths magazines (or on-line mathzines) with interactive games and puzzles - Meenie Minus is for elementary, Kaleidoscope for middle school. www.mathsyear2000.org/magnet/
Primary Games
A collection of math related games that you can also download and play offline at home. Check out the Banana hunt for learning angles or Billy Bug returns for learning coordinates! www.primarygames.co.uk
Maths Zone
Click on KS1/KS2 in the top menu, and then on the left side colored menus for a list of games on just about every elementary math topic. www.mathszone.co.uk/
Mathwire.com
Innovative and creative board games, activities and worksheets for many math topics. www.mathwire.com
Books: Math Games
I Play Math Games.com
Offers downloadable or printed workbooks filled with math games, many with ordinary dice and playing cards. Also individual games downloads and freebies. www.iplaymathgames.com
25 Super Cool Math Board Games
A large collection of reproducible board games for grades 3-6 that build key skills: multiplication, division, fractions, probability, estimation, mental math, and more. amazon.com
Math Card games by Joan A. Cotter
Part of the RightStart Math program, this book contains 300 card games that can be used with any math curriculum. They provide practice both for learning concepts and the facts. Chapters on numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, money, clocks, and fractions. www.activitiesforlearning.com
Math Apprentice
A multimedia site that provides students an opportunity to try various professions that use math. Students can be scientists, engineers, computer animators, video game programmers, and more. Math Apprentice provides areas of free exploration as well as specific problems to solve. It is meant for upper elementary and middle school students. www.mathplayground.com/mathapprentice.html
Ko's Journey
An online supplemental curriculum that integrates story, math and imagery to help students learn the most important middle school math topics. The program automatically tracks student progress and assignments. License $39 one student, $59 three students, $329 a classroom of 30 students. A free demo available. www.kosjourney.com
Cut The Knot
A site full of games, puzzles, illustrations, charts, paradoxes, illusions, mathematical droodles - often illustrated with interactive Java applets. You can learn a lot! www.cut-the-knot.org
Coffee Shop A fun animated game where each day you first buy inventory (coffee, cups, milk, and sugar), set the recipe and price, and then watch customers buy and comment on your prices and taste of coffee. The aim is to make the most money, of course. www.hoodamath.com/games/coffeeshop.php
MathDoku
MathDoku is a mathematical and logical puzzle based on KenKenTM and loosely similar to sudoku. It combines the idea of Sudoku where each digit is used only once in a row or column, and adds the usage of the four basic operations. This is addictive and fun! www.mathdoku.com
Nick's Mathematical Puzzles
A collection of high school/college level math puzzles ranging over geometry, probability, number theory, algebra, calculus, and logic. Hints are provided, along with answers, fully worked solutions, and links to related mathematical topics. www.qbyte.org/puzzles/
Maths Zone
An interactive role-play adventure game/movie for those who like
adventure. Help Ben and Mai to escape a castle where they are held by two bank robbers and reach the local police station in time to stop the robbers. It will take about 20 minutes to complete all four challenges. Suitable for middle school level. www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/M/mathszone/
Sudoku-Puzzles.net
Lots of free Sudoku puzzles. Play online, print it out or export as PDF. Also free puzzles to newspapers, magazines, teachers. www.sudoku-puzzles.net
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