August 10th, 2009

Fun Free Online Math Games

The days of the abacus have passed and pencil and worksheets were on a good trend in the last decades, but now, with the availability of the Internet and computers, there are more pleasant ways to learn and exercise math: online games. There are plenty of free games for children or students who want to learn math in a pleasant manner. In this article I gathered few funny math games I found online, and I think you will like them too.

"Arcade"mic Skill Builders is a site which offers a lot of educational math games. They offer plenty of flash games, with high quality, which can be played also on the Wii. If you have a good Internet connection, you can connect your Wii to the website and you can play the games on your big TV display. Many flash games can be played in multiplayer mode, and they are based on the four basic mathematical operations: addition, substraction, multiplication and division. There are games for "advanced" players also, which include fractions are ratio. The huge variety of math games on "Arcade"mic Skill Builders website is great, and you can try games like Jet Ski, Alien Addition or Grand Prix for fun, or let your children play them, because their educational value is unlimited.

Coolmath-games.com is also a huge resource of online math games, and it covers a wide range of mathematical games. You can find there java&flash games, and HTML based games also. They are all free, and they offer a lot of games, for all ages, and with various difficulty level. For example, there is a game which offers you the opportunity to be an entrepreneur and to run you own coffee shop and obtain profit and manage it. This game is named Coffee Shop and it is similar to Lemonade Stand game, and both can be found on Cool Math games website.

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Another cool math games website is Sheppard Software, and this site brings out a lot of flash games, which are very funny, and I am sure that anyone can find a game to fit his/her preferences. Just to name few games on this site, I would like to mention: Early Math, Fractions, Dollars&Cents, Place Values or Basic&Mixed Operations.