Math+Playground

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 * Math Playground
 * Sponsoring Organization: Math playground was created by teachers who have a love for technology and math. However; I couldn't find a list of who those teachers actually are. No specific organization was named. **
 * Date of Last Update: June 11, 2009**


 * Authority: Math Playground has won many awards such as: The Child Friendly Website Award, Blue Web'n, Homeschool.com, Ohio Treasure Chest, Association for Library Service to Children, A+ Educational Website from That Website.com, and highlighted in the Math Forum @Drexel Internet News.**


 * Content:** **Math Playground is a site centered around practicing math skills. There are many games, videos, logic puzzles, and word problems on the site. Math objectives covered are: fractions, geometry, graphs, probability, word problems, area and probability, computation and more.**


 * Currency: Copyrighted 2008-2012 **


 * Purpose: The purpose of this site is to help kids practice and master math skills. It's also for teachers to use as they present new objectives to their students.**


 * Organization: It's very easy to navigate through this site. There are 4 main categories to and they are listed at the left part of the screen. When you click on one of these links more links pop up in the center of the screen. My mom (a digital immigrant) would be able to easily operate this website!**


 * Strengths: The website is well organized, it covers many different areas of math. Every game I played was very accurate.**


 * Weaknesses:Some of the videos take a long time to download, and I don't know if the volume on my computer wasn't working or if there wasn't any volume to them.**


 * Instructional Uses: I do a problem of the day with my students, so it would be fun to use the word problems on this website. Students who get done with their independent work early would love working on the logic puzzels! I take my students to the grocery store for one of my lessons, but we have to split the class in two. Students who were staying at school will play Math at the Mall and Percent Shopping.**


 * Benefits to Students:** **Students will enjoy practicing their skills playing these fun and educational games. If they don't know an answer or make a mistake, the game will tell them and they can correct it for the next time.**