Rainforest Maths is a GREAT educational Math site with hundreds of free activities for kids from ages 5 – 12. The activities are broken down by age/grade and seem be right on target with some activities and a bit ahead with others in correspondence with what my children are learning in school in the US. [ Read More ]
Archive for March, 2008
I very rarely will devote a whole post to one game but this truly deserves it! Math Missions: The Amazing Arcade Adventure for Grade 3-5 is wonderful on so many levels. I am not a big fan of the “No Child Left Behind Act” and the pressure it puts on kids for testing as well [ Read More ]
ABCYa‘s tagline is “where technology and education meet”. I definitely agree and can easily see classrooms using this site. They break up the site by grade level from Kindergarten right through fifth grade. The Kindergarten games would be fine for some younger kids and the other games seem right on target. I will outline a [ Read More ]
The merging of social networks with gaming seem to be popping up everywhere. A couple of months back I reviewed an awesome one for tweens (Be Tween Talk) and now here is another one for a little bit older (Doof). While MOST of the games are suitable for any age — I think any social [ Read More ]
Free Rice is an amazing site. It is a sister site to poverty.com which has a very important message about hunger in the world that follows: “About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds. Unfortunately, it is [ Read More ]
