Math Baseball
Math Baseball is a great incentive for students. Simply click the type of problems you would like to see, such as, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or a mix of them all. Then click the Play Ball button. Type in your answer and hit swing. If your answer is correct you will see the players move on the baseball field. You will get a double or triple depending on the difficulty of the problem. This game is an excellent choice for students because they are learning math skills and participating in sports at the same time. They can actually see on the screen what a right answer does to the game. This gives them a huge incentive to do their best!
Fishy Count
Fishy Count is a great game for children learning how to count. It has fun music to award the student if they answer correctly. This game is different from other games in that instead of telling the person playing the right answer if they happen to get it wrong, they instead count the fish with you and then give you another chance. This makes the child go back and fix their mistakes. This is great counting practice for students in the classroom. To start simply click the big, green start arrow. Then listen to the voice, count the fish on the screen, and choose the right answer in the sand below.
Number Puzzle
This number puzzle is a great educational math and memory tool. Students not only have to concentrate and use their brains to think of how to put the puzzle in order, but they also have to know their numbers. Simply click the scramble button to scramble the numbers up and begin moving the numbers around until you get them in the right counting order.
Money Game
Where In The World and What In The World Is Money is definately an educational game. You simply click the Play the Game button and you are off into a new world. You read the little story of what is happening to you and where you are. The game has to do with exchanging ordinary, every day objects, for money. The object of the game is to get back home safely from your time machine traveling experience. This game can be used in a classroom when you are on a topic of currency exchange or even the history of money. This game would be great for students to see how different countries exchange and with what. Its fun for the children and they learn some history at the same time.
Grammar Gorillas
Grammar Gorillas is an educational game on English grammar. Simply click what the computer asks you to find in the sentence to begin. Sometimes it will ask you to find the verb, adjective, noun etc. If you need some help or need to know the defintion of the phrase you need to find, they are all located on the bottom of the page. If you find the are correct word the gorilla gets a banana. This game can be used in a classroom as a good practice helper, maybe beofore a grammar test for your students.
Mind Reader
Mind Reader is an educational game beacuse it has a math based twist to it. Use this in the classroom and see if your students can figure out the secret. To start think of a number between one and sixty-three. Then click yes or no if your number appears in on the card on the screen. At the end the computer will try to guess your number.
President Game
Name that President is a great way for children to not only recognize the President by only their picture, but then, if correnct they learn a few facts on them as well. If the student is wrong they still get a second and actually as many chances as they need. This game would be great in the classroom, especially if you have assigned a book report on Presidents or if you are studying them in one of your textbooks. To begin simply click the green start button.
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