What it is: As promised yesterday, today’s post is all about Math Playground. This is a great site packed full of games, videos, and puzzles all centered around math for elementary and middle school students. Math Playground features some great games touching on topics from money to graphing. The games are interactive and a fun place for students to practice those math concepts they are learning. The word problem sections are divided up by grade level, ensuring that your students are challenged at an appropriate level. The logic puzzle section contains some awesome online traditional logic puzzles (I love these!). The Math video section contains videos introducing students to math concepts (all I have used are very good). The Math Videos are generated after students submit a math question to be answered. Students can ask their own math question…who knows, their question may generate the next Math Video!
How to integrate Math Playground into the classroom: The more I use Math Playground with my students, the more I am convinced that no math class should be without it! Use the Math videos to help introduce or review concepts with your math class. Use the games and word problems as a center or whole class practice. The logic puzzles are fun to bookmark for year round problem solving and playing. We use the logic puzzles often on snow days or when students are finished with work early. Your students will enjoy the activities on Math Playground, my students often come to tell me the latest game or puzzle that they played at home. Voluntary math practice, what a concept!
Tips: Math Playground usually has one banner advertisement. As I have mentioned before, I use advertisements on websites to teach students about how to spot an ad and why sites feature ads.
Leave a comment and tell us how you are using Math Playground in your classroom.
Thank you for writing such a positive review of Math Playground. I’ve been reading your blog for some time now (it’s excellent) and it was quite a nice surprise to see Math Playground featured this week. I’m glad to hear it’s being put to good use in classrooms.
I’ve been working on an interactive pre-algebra program that should be available by January. A video introduction will be posted on the site within the next few weeks. I think students will really enjoy this one!
Thanks again for sharing this resource with your readers.