The website below has links to lots of free maths games. Not all
of them are non-flash but in the subjects I looked at I found at least a
few.
for example,
Also, we have used the website Kidsgraph:
There are two versions and I found the Classic one easier to use.
There are lots of
apps that allow you to practise a specific skill but not always at the
right level and are only useful when you are looking at that skill. To
give you an example, I was teaching about fractions and hadn't yet got
onto the link to decimals but in the only app I found that was not bad
for fractions, the learners had to understand equivalency, the link to
decimals and how to convert between decimal fractions, fractions and to
work out equivalency of both at the same time. This limits considerably
when it will be useful.
Some
of the arithmetic apps are really good for tables and basic mental
addition, subtraction and division but the progression in difficulty
doesn't really push primary 6's. I do like Mathsboard, particularly
because they can show their working and explain their methodology.
What
is really needed is a more comprehensive app that allows for
progression of skills. What we probably need is something more like a
mathletics or sumdog approach where there are lots of different maths
and numeracy topics for the children to explore and that go beyond the
basics or something like the BBC learning games, I guess that would be
expensive though.
My
partner's friend said that his daughter is really enjoying the app
Playful Minds which I have had a quick look at and seems to have a much
wider subject matter. It is for 5-8 year olds and you create an avatar
and can collect rewards, a bit like Club penguin or Webkinz. It would
be worth thinking about what kind of resources developers could produce
that would be useful in schools for maths and numeracy.
Maybe other people have suggestions on really good maths apps that they have found?
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