Math Games by Kids

Photo by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com.

The cold came back and knocked me flat, but there are compensations. The downtime gave me a chance to browse my overflowing bookmarks folder, and I found something to add to my resource page. Princess Kitten and I enjoyed exploring these games and quizzes from Ambleweb.

Math Games by Elementary Students

Each game was designed by (or at least with the help of) 4th-6th grade students at Ambleside CE Primary School.

• Callum’s Addition Pyramid
  “Can you open the Mummy’s Tomb?” With three difficulty levels, this will challenge any elementary student’s mental addition skills — and many adults’ skills, too!
• The Table Trees
  Practice your times tables, with a twist — it’s not always the answer that’s missing.
• Button Beach Challenge
  “A taster of our forthcoming Oddsocks — The Land of the Lost interactive web based mental maths adventure.” This addition puzzle is harder than it looks. I can’t wait to try the rest of the adventure…
• Ambleweb Function Machine
  Choose the type of problem you want to guess, or go random for more challenge. My math club kids LOVE function machines.
• The Fractotron
  You will have to work fast with this game. The questions are not super-difficult, but it doesn’t give you much time to think.

Test Your Problem-Solving Skills

Challenging mental arithmetic quizzes by the kids at Ambleside Primary.

• Brainwave
  For early elementary students: “What is half of 10?…”
• Braintwister
  For middle elementary students: “There are 35 children in a class. 16 are boys. How many are girls?…”
• The Braindrainer
  For upper elementary or middle school students: “Is 4 a factor of 106?…”
• The Totally Mental Machine
  Random numbers make a new set of problems every time: “What is 15.7 and 4.7 together?…”
• Problems? No Problem!
  Includes some geometry: “What is the name of an angle greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees?…”

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