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OK, this is a pretty cool game site that is all about teaching and learning. I played the multiplication game longer than I should have and even played with the pet hamster for a while. He runs on that whell a long time. From the website, "All games here were made by Exuberant Games. Each game goes through important information for a certain subject matter for grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. The math games are great if you need to review your math facts for addition, subtraction , or division. Be sure to check out our new games for other subjects.

The website says: "THE Place For Educational Games!Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. Click a button below to play our free multi-player and single-player games! In the future we'll add features enabling you to save records, tailor content for differentiated instruction, and pinpoint student problem areas." I think using the games in conjunction with a holistic approach to developing skills would make for a great way of getting students to practices some skills. Let students play, set goals, monitor those goals, reflect on their progress, and apply strategies/heuristics to specific problems they struggle with would create an environment in the classroom where learning was fun, self-monitored, and successful. 

"e 21st Century Learning Lab Designers category is aligned with National Lab Day. Winners will receive awards for learning environments and digital media-based experiences that allow young people to grapple with social challenges through activities based on the social nature, contexts, and ideas of science, technology, engineering and math. Digital media of any type (social networks, games, virtual worlds, mobile devices or others) may be used. Proposals are also encouraged for curricula or other experiences that link or connect to any game. Learning labs may be designed around new games or expand the potential of open source or commercial games."

Games that teachers can use with students via their IWBs or as part of their netbook routines.

Some flash based games that students can play to hone their computation/number sense skills

Having students start understanding number properties early is a significant aspect of developing algebraic reasoning. I really like that this game allows students to 'play'/explore different number combinations. I can even see using this game with older (3-5th) students to have them explore different characteristics of the problems, i.e. 3 + 4 = 7 the larger number goes at the end, 3 and 4 can be switched and still get 7 to introduce number properties in a concrete experiential way.

computation fluency games. I like the racecar game on page 2!

Online games. I played a couple of the math games.Again primarily drill and practice but it pits you against an opponent so +s and -s.

Contraption game, great for problem solving, logic, and fun! Doesn't address specific core content, but does offer students opportunity to explore, build, and persevere in problem solving situations. Great extra credit link. I think having students build models, share with the class, and make the goal to have lots of different examples to embed in a class wiki would be awesome!

Great games to work on multiple skills, estimation, percent change, multiplication of decimals at multiple levels. I enjoyed the dart game!!! Can you beat 66.67% accuracy at level 3?

number sense and computational fluency games to play online

Another blog on using play or gaming to learn! Love the Daniel Pink quote!

The fan-created archive of Jeopardy! games and players--158,322 clues and counting!

Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple game that increases your knowledge.

Easy game to play in which students have to use their understanding of fractions to fill in gaps. 

Nice set of games for anatomy. Easy to play, fast paced, and interactive (to a certain extent). 

number sense and computational fluency games as part of computational fluency routine in a classroom. 

games for working with students on computational fluency routines.