Fun and Free, Interactive, Online Math Games

June 28, 2013

Here are three recommended websites that are well worth exploring for their many entertaining and FREE, interactive math games to motivate your child to play and practice math skills during the summer (and all year long). Check out the websites FUNBRAIN , MATH-PLAY, and COOLMATH4KIDS .

FUNBRAIN

The following are just some of the math games on FUNBRAIN:

MATH BASEBALL – In this game when a math problem is given, the child enters the answer to the problem and hits the “Swing” button. If the answer is correct, it’s a hit and FUNBRAIN decides if the hit is a single, double, triple, or home run based on the difficulty of the problem. If the answer is wrong, it’s an out, and the game is over after 3 outs. I like that the kids can pick the game (addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division) and level (easy, medium, hard, super brain).

Here are some of FUNBRAIN’s other math games for kids of all ages:

BALL HOGS – Test your speed and math skills to scoop up the tennis ball before the opposing Ballhog does.
BUMBLE NUMBERS – Drop the correct answer into the flower. Beware of the lightning bugs and dragonflies.
CHANGE MAKER – the player must calculate the change given for a money purchase.
FRESH BAKED FRACTIONS is a game to practice simplifying fractions.
LINE JUMPER is a positive and negative addition and subtraction Number Line game.
SOCCER SHOOTOUT to practice simplifying fractions
MATH ARCADE – Arcade-style math games including Ball Hogs, Mummy Hunt, Bumble Numbers

For preschool children, there is FUNBRAIN JR with math games: Balloon Blow-Up, Water Slide, Mushroom Bounce, and Treehouse Builder.

MATH-PLAY

This is a site full of free online math games that is very user-friendly and easy to navigate through. The games are categorized by grade levels (1^st through 8^th), with several interactive games practicing each of those specific grade level math skills. For example, under 4^th grade games, you will find:

MATH RACING PLACE VALUE GAME

ADDING DECIMALS SOCCER GAME

BASEBALL MATH ADDING & SUBTRACTING DECIMALS GAME

BASKETBALL MULTIPLICATION GAME

There are also many other interactive games to play for: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, integer, and equations.

COOL MATH 4 KIDS

COOL MATH 4 KIDS is just as its name suggests – a full site of hundreds of free, entertaining, very stimulating math games, puzzles, lessons and practice. It is designed for elementary and middle school students (skills from arithmetic through pre-algebra). Cool Math is for older students (13 and higher) with skills from pre-algebra through calculus. According to their site, CoolMath and Cool Math4Kids are used by thousands of students in classrooms and homes worldwide, and everything on these sites were designed “for the frustrated, the confused, the bored students of the world who hate math, for the students who just need to get through this stuff so they can reach their other academic goals, and for the math geeks of the world who love math and want more, more, more!”

Future blogs will share more math games, as well as strategies, fun activities and resources to help kids learn and practice skills and mathematical problem-solving during the summer (and throughout the year).

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