If your child is having trouble with math, he probably isn't alone. According to Fox News, of 77 college elementary-education programs surveyed, most spent too little time teaching the basics of elementary math to students, making prospective teachers ill-prepared on the subject. By making math interesting, you can help students succeed. Toward that goal, interactive math games can make the subject fun.
Primary Games
Primary Games is a one-stop shop for interactive educational games of all kinds. It offers math games online for elementary-age kids from pre-k through fourth grade. Using familiar characters like Dora the Explorer and Evan Almighty as well as twists on popular numbers games like Sudoku, Primary Games teaches children a variety of skills. Spatial relations, shapes, logic, patterns, geometry, counting, addition and subtraction are all ideas that are explored through a long list of games, including Coin Weighing, Dora's Carnival Adventure and Aces Up Solitaire.
Count Us In
Count Us In by ABC is a popular interactive math site for kindergarten-age children. According to ABC, the games "are designed to help children understand basic concepts in mathematics," such as counting, matching, and adding and subtracting. The 15 games require kids to match analog and digital times, sort and group items, match two halves of different images together, count and even judge volume. Count Us In games are also downloadable for access by children off the Internet.
RekenWeb Games
RekenWeb Games from the Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education offers games for children of all ages. Parents can easily sort through different difficulty levels by finding games based on a child's age group. It reinforces addition and subtraction skills as well as block-building, tangrams, tables of numbers and patterns.
Math Doodles
Math Doodles by Carstens Studios Inc. is a site for children of all ages. According to Carstens Studios, "Math Doodles are designed to provide a place where anyone can discover the joy, wonder and fun of mathematics." The author, Daren Carstens, has received numerous awards for his work, including the Bologna Children's Book Fair New Media Prize in the Best Educational Software category. Games are designed to be so fun and interactive that the learning factor is almost forgotten.
