| Educational games is the blend of education and entertainment. For instance, the children's programs on television like Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Mr. Rogers or games like Scrabble or Chinese Tangrams could be classed as edutainment.
Here we’ve focused on different fun and engaging activities as a means to educate kids.
Math games
Butterfly Hunt 1.35.25
The game is about hunting for butterflies and arranging them sequentially in a collection bar. It has 4 different levels. Kids learn the basics of alphabet, math and train their associative thinking with the game.
Learning Math with Albert
This program teaches your kids small and big math concepts in a fun and inactive way. It includes activity books, CD ROMS and Albert and Annie's Maths Kit. The kit includes Magic Numbers Board, Annie's Practice Cards, and a Mulitiplication Tile set. They are designed for fun, play and practice.
DreamBox Learning K-2 Math
The game includes a variety of themes. It gives your kids a chance to have fun with dinosaurs, pirates, pixies and pets. Each of these themes has 8 “stories” for the kids. The content of the game is based on curriculum recommendations from the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics). The best part about the game is the lessons are individualized for each child.
Chinese Tangrams
Tangrams are popular educational tools used by parents and teachers alike to teach young children. A Tangram is a Chinese puzzle that has 7 shapes:
• Two large right triangles
• One medium sized right triangle
• One small square
• Two small right triangles
• One parallelogram
The seven pieces of a geometric Tangram can be arranged in many different ways to make figures of birds, animals, people, and objects. Tangramming helps children learn the basics of geometry and foster their shape identification, classification and problem-solving skills.
Yahtzee Math Games
The game is very popular tool used in schools to teach mathematics to kids. The game is not all about rolling dices. The game is liked and played by all ages because it’s fun and educational. It’s a great way to teach your little ones number recognition as well as helps a math major in learning prediction and statistics. The player has to score the highest points by rolling a combination of numbers. These numbers are added up and the highest scorer wins.
While playing the game the kids learn addition, subtraction and multiplication and often they need to do the calculations quickly in their head.
Guessing Integers
In this game, there are different cards with integers on them. The integer cards have number on the front side and equations on the back. For instance, one card will have integer 6 on the front, and the equation x=3+2 on the back. Another card will have integer 4 on the front and the equation x=4X2 on the back. Kids need to decide which equation matches with the number written on the front side of the card.
When they select correct cards, they score point. If they get one wrong, they do not score a point. The game fosters kids’ understanding of pre-algebra and algebra.
Word Games
Word Search
Encourage your little one to play it and learn about alphabets and words. The game is about finding words by dragging mouse over the letter grid. Once found, the words will be circled.
Paint The Word
Kids can play the game at BCL’s language games. They need to paint the words and put them in the right groups. For instance, there will be words related to different professions or different kinds of furniture and the kids need to paint the words belonging to a similar group in a particular color. Kids will have fun painting the words and arranging them in groups.
Take N Play Magnetic Hangman Game
The Take N Play Magnetic Hangman Game from Patch Toys gives parents a great way to blend learning with play. It involves two players. One player has to save a friendly Wild West outlaw from being hanged by guessing the opponent’s word, letter by letter. This super-cool game includes 62 letter magnets, 6 hangman body part magnets, 8 blank magnets, 2 scoring markers, a magnetic game board and also a trendy travel tin.
Mad Libs DVD Game
Give your kids’ creative skills a push with the game.
Reggie Loves to Rhyme
A great introduction to the world of words, Reggie Loves to Rhyme prompts kids to practice the words that rhyme and improve their vocabulary and speaking skills, all while they are playing the day away!
Health Games
Play Lunch Crunch
Lunch is a great time to eat nutritious and well balanced diet. The kids get a chance to fill trays with two fruit and vegetables before they get to the Monster Lunch Lady.This is one of the best educational games for kids |
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