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Great resource for primary teachers. Interractive Maths, Science and Literacy games for KS1 and KS2.

2013 Design Challenge: Robot Enhancements, Software, and Teaching Plans Sponsored by: The African Robotics Network (AFRON) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Robots excite people of all ages. Their physical behavior often inspires primary and secondary student interest in computers, science, math, and engineering more broadly.

Thanks Enzo, this looks like something my students could work on as an enrichment project.

Best Serious Game I have come across in all my years in Games Based Learning Research. Outstanding pre-algebra game developed by MIT and Fablevision. Incredibly it's free. I can't recommend this highly enough for students in years 5-8 (Australia).

Help Artt connect the dots to find out what's hiding between the lines.

A 5th grade Science teacher, Mr. Ramirez includes in his website lots of interesting links to science (electricity, magnetism, chemestry, engineering, NASA, rockets, tangrams) education-related resources including videos and games. General teacher's presentations to the main sections are available in English and Spanish.

RayRay is a fantastic little problem solving games that gets students communicating and collaboration to develop strategies to solve problems. Belly buttons! (To see what I mean give the game a go!)

Case study on the use of the game Lure of the Labyrinth with students in primary school. Provides assessment data and discusses the challenges and successes of this Department of Education Trial.

This New York Time article asks readers to draw a graph showing their best guess of the relationship between income and going to college in the United States. Then, it provides individualized feedback. It's an interesting approach and could be used for upper-level primary.

It is an excellent website to assess students' working in a number of mathematical skills. It is for all grades and it gives instant feedback.

I use this resource in my teaching. It's great especially for maths games to consolidate learning.

Customizes content for each student based on the student´s skills and empowers them to master concepts of common core curriculum

Lots of online games to support the development of core numeracy and literacy skills. pupils can play alone or compete in competitions with classmates or students around the world. As a teacher you can track their progress, monitors strengths and weaknesses and control the topics & levels students work at.

A website to inspire creativity in maths

Interactive simulations.

I have used Prodigy with elementary school children with great success. The adaptability of the program is fantastic and students really get engaged with the reward system. It is also an excellent way to explain kids' learning progress to parents.