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Hooda Math believes in math learning through play. Mr. Edlavitch credits board and card games for his early enjoyment of mathematics. Hooda Math believes free online math games can do the same for students today.

Great Stats on this site For generations, games have been used to teach concepts, skills, and knowledge. Think Yahtzee, Monopoly, and math; Scrabble and spelling; Mastermind, Qwirkle, and strategy; Clue and problem solving…the list goes on and on. Games are challenging, interesting, and engaging. And with the ever-enhancing technology landscape, games are more immersive than ever. Individual or massive multiplayer online games have grown exponentially in the last few years, and projections only show gaming consumption increasing.

Some really good maths games and puzzles. Really good for problem solving skills and students love them.

the revolutionary math game. Click, drag&drop cards to solve 100 puzzles, highly recommended for its training pack to drill and be really an ace in algebra, 100 puzzles + 100 extra equations

Learnalot uses high-quality game-based learning resources to engage and challenge its students in maths.

An interactive maths game with very strong story line. For middle schoolers.

"It doesn't seem to matter what age group or demographic that I talk to, kids (and adults) everywhere are fans of Angry Birds. As I was playing around with Angry Birds (yep I'm a fan too), I started thinking about all of the learning that could be happening. I have watched a two year old tell an older sister that "you have to pull down to go up higher". I have watched as kids master this game through trial and error. Being the teacher that I am, I started dreaming up a transdisciplinary lesson with Angry Birds as the base. I happened to be writing an inquiry lesson that has students look at inventions throughout time and thought: the catapult-that is an invention that has technology and concepts that are used even today. This is one of those inspirational moments that comes when you are drifting off to sleep and has you frantically searching for paper and pen to record as fast as the ideas come. So what did I do? I got myself out of bed and went to work sketching out a super awesome plan. Here is the embedded learning that I came up with"

Refraction is an online puzzle game for teaching fractions. The game is not obviously a lesson in fractions, but requires knowledge of fractions to succeed.

"Epistemic games are computer games that can help players learn to think like engineers, urban planners, journalists, lawyers, and other innovative professionals, giving them the tools they need for a changing world."

A really life investing game to simulate property investment

 From the University of Wisconsin comes this set of rubrics for the following topics Cooperative Learning  Research Process/Report  PowerPoint/Podcast  Oral Presentation  Web Page and ePortfolio  Math, Art, Science  Video and Multimedia Project    Creating Rubrics  Writing  Rubrics for Primary Grades  Game and Simulations  Web 2.O

"A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, podcast, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other web 2.0 projects."

Site (US) offering videos and activity docs.

Many ways teachers could use mMinecraft in learning/teaching situations