Thursday, April 25, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tux Math
Here are some reviews on Tux Math games.
You "shoot" meteorites that are falling down by answering math problems (type the problem's answer and press Enter/Return). If you can't answer one, the meteorite does some damage to one of the penguin's igloo. Then after enough damage, the penguin in that igloo leaves (walks away).
But, once you answer a red "fiery" question that falls down real quick, you can get a cloud that comes and fixes the igloo. Then your penguin comes back! I think that's so cute!! You can only lose if all your penguins go away.
The background is always an image from space.
The options include any of the four operations, or have them mixed. You can practice specific times tables for example, which is good for my younger daughter at this time. As you go along in a game, then the questions start coming down quicker. At first they come down quite slow.
There's a training section, and there's a section where it gives you random questions. In that one, you play as long as you want, and when you stop, it'll tell you if you are in the top ten highest scores for you. If so, then you go in the "hall of fame."
Once you finish any particular type of problems (for ex. addition 0-5 or multiplication by 4), the star for that turns glowing yellow, and that's what my kids are after--they want to turn all those stars yellow. That's only in the training part, though. In the training part you have to answer a certain amount of questions.
You can make as many new "accounts" as you want and fill the "hall of fame" with you and your various nicknames.
It's just simple free game for math practice; there are no special features such as reports or training the facts you answer wrong.
Tux Math, or Tux of Math Command is software that is available as a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Download it here.
You "shoot" meteorites that are falling down by answering math problems (type the problem's answer and press Enter/Return). If you can't answer one, the meteorite does some damage to one of the penguin's igloo. Then after enough damage, the penguin in that igloo leaves (walks away).
But, once you answer a red "fiery" question that falls down real quick, you can get a cloud that comes and fixes the igloo. Then your penguin comes back! I think that's so cute!! You can only lose if all your penguins go away.
The background is always an image from space.
The options include any of the four operations, or have them mixed. You can practice specific times tables for example, which is good for my younger daughter at this time. As you go along in a game, then the questions start coming down quicker. At first they come down quite slow.
There's a training section, and there's a section where it gives you random questions. In that one, you play as long as you want, and when you stop, it'll tell you if you are in the top ten highest scores for you. If so, then you go in the "hall of fame."
Once you finish any particular type of problems (for ex. addition 0-5 or multiplication by 4), the star for that turns glowing yellow, and that's what my kids are after--they want to turn all those stars yellow. That's only in the training part, though. In the training part you have to answer a certain amount of questions.
You can make as many new "accounts" as you want and fill the "hall of fame" with you and your various nicknames.
It's just simple free game for math practice; there are no special features such as reports or training the facts you answer wrong.
Tux Math, or Tux of Math Command is software that is available as a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Download it here.
My Dear Aunt Sally - game for order of operations
You've surely heard of the acronym PEMDAS for the order of
operations (Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally) - standing for
Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication & Division, Addition &
Subtraction.
There's a new game for order of operations called My Dear Aunt Sally. You can play it free online, or purchase an inexpensive app for your tablet.
It's a very good game, and takes some thinking! You need to place the given numbers into two expressions so that the operations make the two expressions have the same value.
Here are some screenshots. The first one is the easiest level. The addition on the top has to have the same value as the multiplication/addition expression on the bottom.
It gets harder if you choose to include exponents:
You can also choose to use fractions, so it becomes harder yet
Click Here to Play
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