Math Elem Ed
Good Digital Games, Manipulatives, and Puzzles for Math for Elementary Teachers:
- NLVM Circle Puzzles: Adding Integers, Decimals (Video Demo of Circle Puzzle)
- Line Gem: Identifying the equation of a line (Video Demo of Line Gem)
- Factortris: Multiplication tables, Factor pairs (Video Demo of Factortris)
- Flower Power: Ordering of decimals, fractions, and percents (Video Demo of Flower Power), NOTE: This game now requires you to set up a teacher account with student sub-accounts for students to play past the “Lite” version.
- Ice Ice Maybe: Estimation skills, Number Sense
- Penguin Jump Multiplayer: Multiplication tables (what makes this one fun is the competition, the social aspect)
- Red Remover: Logic skills (but don’t believe for an instant that it’s a geometry game, like it claims)
- Factor Feeder: Number Factors
Paper-based Games, Puzzles, and Manipulatives for Algebra:
- Operation Integers : Add, subtract, multiply, or divide integers
- OOP Chain Puzzle: Order of Operations
- Factor Pair Block: Practice with learning factor pairs and preparing to find the GCF (also print Gameboard and Directions & Player Cards)
- Prime Number Tiles Manipulative : Prime factorization, GCF, LCM, Fraction Simplification, Radical Simplification (Blog Post about Prime Number Tiles)
- Set of Real Numbers Manipulatives: Categorizing numbers into sets (Whole, Natural, Integer, Positive, Negative, Rational, Irrational)
- Colored Counter Manipulatives: Add or Subtract Integers (Video Demo for Colored Counters, Blog post about Colored Counters)
- Sequence Patterns : Students find the patterns in a collection of sequences and then sort them by similarities
- Fraction Catch (by John Golden)
- Ancient Numeration Manipulatives
- Polygon Capture: Game about the properties of polygons from the NCTM Illuminations website. Warning: I think this game could be improved. I usually ask my students to tell me what they would do to make it a better game at the end. They usually have good ideas and it’s a great exercise in thinking critically about game play.
I’ve also decided to collect your suggestions for other digital and/or paper games, puzzles, and manipulatives using a Google Form, but before you submit a game for me to review, PLEASE check it against my criteria for Lame Games.
