Rainforest Maths — A Wonderful Math Game site for kids

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. The site is built from Queensland requirements. I highly recommend visiting this site and checking out some of the activities.

I will recommend a couple from each age range but as you can see when you visit with 30+ activities for kindergarten aged kids and over 200+ activities for 6th grade children — there is a lot to do and my best suggestion is checking it out with your children and working with them on areas they might need

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Math Missions the Amazing Arcade Adventure for Grade 3-5

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 as the teachers to “teach for the test” but this game is standardized with learning for these tests and it makes it fun!

You start off the game on Mini Math Missions and must got through the 5 different games to receive a clue to find something of the professors and get your pay level for each task to raise. When you have solved 2 full Math Missions you can officially open your arcade. You must make more money to put in the

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ABC Ya — A GREAT Educational site for K – 5th Grade

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 few of mine from each grade level and will link directly to them as there is no registration necessary to play. There are ads on the site and while these look like they all link to other kid-friendly sites there is the worry of kids getting to another not-so-safe site. I would keep an eye on the younger ones when on this site to ensure they can find their way around and be safe. They also have words spelling out the

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Doof — Social Network while you play Games

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 networking site involving kids needs to be monitored. Doof also includes betting on games so this also raises the age limit. While you can play without betting (as I did — called Quick Play) you might not want a teen with a credit card tempted to suddenly add points to bet with. I would recommend signing up first and exploring the games, layout and all the multitude of activities they have and THEN getting the kids geared up to play. You can also

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Free Rice — Give Rice to The Hungry While Improving Your Vocabulary

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 children who die most often. Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families. ”

“There are effective programs to break…