Month: October 2017

Finding a good list of games that my 5th graders can play is exhausting. Most of the games I have found have dead links or some are way too easy/hard. This year, I have decided to make my own list of games that my students can play for the last few minutes of class. These games can be played by any level but are best suited for students in grades 4-8.

If you have some other good ones that you find, please comment and let me know. Would love to add them to the list.

• Math Snacks Gate
  • “Shadows are corrupting the land. Restore the balance of nature using number operations and place value.”
  • Students use the skills of decomposing numbers (in whole and decimals) to build the correct number to win the game and restore the balance of nature.

• Place Value Hockey
  • Place Value Hockey is a fun educational game for kids to practice place value. There are 2 modes of play and 3 levels of difficulty.
  • Modes of play: Identify Place Value & Type Numerals Difficulty:
    • Level 1: ones to hundreds;
    • Level 2: ones to millions;
    • Level 3: ten thousandths to millions
  • The game will show the percentage each player gets correct and players get to take penalty shots to score points for their team when they get five correct in a row.

• MathMan- Expanded Form
  • This one was a good game to introduce my expanded form unit. It is best designed for grades 2-4 but my kids loved it.
  • In this game, a version of pac-man must eat the ghosts in the correct order by expanding a number in the hundreds place by its value.
  • For example if the number is 641, students look for a ghost with 600 + 40+ 1 on him. They must eat him before the other ghosts eat him.

• MathMan- Rounding Decimals
  • Same as the description above except students are rounding numbers to the thousands place.

• Comparing Decimals Fruit Shoot
  • Fun arcade style math game teaches decimal comparisons
  • Compare decimals by shooting fruit that has the or = sign to make the inequality true.
  • Students can choose between 4 modes and 3 levels. Each level has a timed mode slow and fast fruit, and a relaxed mode with slow and fast fruit.

• Scooter Challenge- Rounding Decimals
  • Students help Jimmy earn enough money for his paper route by delivering papers to the correct house
  • Different levels of play. Students start off by rounding 1.377 to the nearest tenth place. Each of the houses have a number on the garage doors, and the student must throw the newspaper to the correct house. This will help him or her earn lots of money for his new scooter.

• Rounding Decimals – Shark Attack
  • In this game, students will work on their rounding skills by rounding decimal numbers to the nearest hundredth place.
  • At the bottom of the screen will be a sentence with a number to be rounded and your goldfish friend. (“Fish are friends not food” – thanks Nemo)
  • Find the shark with the answer and click it to blow it into pieces before the the sharks reach your goldfish friend.
  • The students must be careful because if they pick a wrong answer, the shark will get to the goldfish quicker!

• Funbrain – Spell the Numbers
  • In this game, Funbrain will show you numbers on the check in standard form.
  • Your task is to spell the the words that make the number (word form)
  • You can choose different categories from 0-10, 0-100, 0-1000, and 0-10000)
  • You can also do this in reverse order. Students are given word form and must write the numbers in expanded form.
• Funbrain – Place Value Puzzle
  • Students use their knowledge of place value to find the location of individual digits within a larger number.
  • Each correct answer unlocks a piece of puzzle.  9 correct answers show the entire puzzle.

• Matching Expanded From to Standard
  • This game allows students to match the expanded form to the standard form.

More will be added as I find some other good ones. Enjoy!