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The best games engage kids and allow for exploration as well as practice. Many tiles expand to show lots of games. Go ahead and EXPLORE!

Notice that counting, composing and subitizing games are at the top left before number lines and number charts. Games are loosely organized from left to right and top to bottom in a natural progression. Still, there are appropriate upper elementary games in the top row too! The best games have MANY levels so first and fifth graders may be “breaking apart” with Greg Tang using different numbers and operations.

Learning to Multiply (visually with groups or arrays) comes before Multiplication Facts and Challenge games. Fractions are separated into two groups. Sometimes I have students go to a particular game or a designated tile or two. MANY of these games can be used to formatively assess (or pre-assess) your students. Should I do a full blog post about that?

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The Web mix below will house all the BEST K-5 MATH MANIPULATIVES & TEACHING TOOLS online! Have you bookmarked this page yet?

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The following is a collection of links for Rich Math Tasks and 3 Act Lessons as well as Discourse Prompts or Math Fights and Number Talk/Warm Up Resources. What do you think? Have you tried them all? Did I miss any? I will be adding a section on this collection for essential math blogs too.

ALL of your favorites in one spot! Did I miss any of your favorites? Please share it below! ARE YOU A RETURNING VISTOR? I would LOVE to hear from you! Post a message below!