….and other arithmetic skills.
Sumdog provides free numeracy games at 10 different levels. For a great way to practice adding and subtracting with negative numbers, play these games at level 10. There is a complete list of topics at each level here. Students can choose from several games.
I like the way that the various skill levels can be restricted; the site is aimed at students aged 6 to 14 (having said that some of my Year 11 (age 15-16) students looked like they were rather enjoying themselves recently) so I want my secondary age students to practise the skills at the upper end of the age range and have currently restricted them all to levels 8, 9 and 10. It is possible to set up competitions which I have done very successfully with Year 10 as one of our many Enrichment Week activities. See the Teachers’ page, also the help section for teachers.
Sumdog are creating a library of videos to help teachers get the most out of Sumdog.
I have written some Instructions for students on the companion Mathematics blog for students.
You can choose to play as a guest or sign up (free) so you can save your scores and see how you improve over time. The games are all completely free to use as are several other features for teachers.
You can follow the Sumdog blog for all the latest features.
Update: for more on Manga High including the excellent prodigi quizzes see this post.
I have been meaning to try out Manga High, a games-based Mathematics site for a while now – particularly as it is now free to UK schools. Registration is a simple process as is signing up your students. There are many documents available for teachers – see Resources. I received a quick and supportive reply to a query I sent.
I set my very able Year 9s (age 13-14) some challenges on Quadratic Equations as we have been studying them recently and also asked them to explore the resources on the site. I asked for their views, including whether they thought this would help other students. There is no doubt that they were all highly engaged in what they were doing. I wish to explore the quizzes further as these do look promising.
So here are their first thoughts; I’ll update this as more comments come in.
Clara and Emily
We would like to keep using it!
We found this website very useful as it was fun yet educational, and we got very competitive playing the quizes which made us want to continue. We think that others will really enjoy this too, particularly year 7s, as it is a fun way to learn.
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