@joe_bower said he was looking for some decent math games online and couldn’t find any. I remembered that I used to make math games all the time so I fired off a bunch of links back. I decided it was worth gathering all those links into one spot. Who knows, maybe some of these old games are useful.
Good for teaching about perspective: Labyrinth
Gives students a feel for how fraction operations work: Fractions operations
Practice operations and solve a number puzzle: Countdown
See how simple rules result in much complexity: John Conway’s Game of Life
Practice factoring numbers & remember prime numbers: Factors!
Just a fun spaceship game (similar to Asteroids): Spaceship game
Useful for recognizing some similar fractions: Horse Races
Really just algebra practice & puzzle solving: Algebra puzzle
More of the same type as practice as above but quadratic algebra: Quadratic algebra puzzle
Look at patterns when moving rings: Towers of Hanoi
Try a variation of the classic logo programming language: Logo Programming
@MAttledding says:
You missed my all time favourite: lure of the labyrinth ( http://labyrinth.thinkport.org/www/ ) for pre-algebra students (12ish) There is a bit of a pre-amble, but the game is really well designed, useful, and engaging.
May 5, 2011 — 1:24 am
David Wees says:
This is actually a list of math games I’ve created, but please feel free to share resources that you like. The more the merrier really.
May 5, 2011 — 9:22 am
cool math games says:
Very good list. I will check these out.
May 22, 2012 — 1:21 am