Active Math Games
Knowing whether it's worth buying a password for Active Maths for your school can be difficult without knowledge of the games themselves. The Active Maths website has a variety of math games, but many require a password to be played, and the password costs around $32 (as of February 2011). The website features Active Algebra games, and three sets of Active Maths Games.
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Active Maths Games 1
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Several games occupy the Active Maths Games 1 set of games on Active Maths. The Up the Wall series consists of six, one-player arithmetic games. Two players can play the Splat Games, the Line 'em Up games and some of the Coordinates Games. Splat Games revolve around splatting numbers in a grid and test basic arithmetic and times tables. The Line 'em Up games are times table games, and the Coordinates Games pit you against a friend to find some missing polygons based on their coordinates. Gunk the Punk revolves around estimating angles, the Sorted Games teach you to sort decimals. The Space Invaders games are about rotation and symmetry. Two games, called the Swap Over games, challenge you to swap parts of an equation to make it correct.
Active Maths Games 2
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The Active Maths Games 2 set includes Pick Your Players, Table Football, World Cup Sequences, Splat Games, Play Darts, Snap!, Don't Burst the Last, Strictly Transformations and Line 'em Up Factors and Multiples. The Pick Your Players game aims to test kids' knowledge of factors, multiples and prime numbers. World Cup Sequences presents the player with a color sequence drawn on the players' backs, and he has to pick the final color based on the pattern that has developed.
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Active Maths Games 3
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The third set of games has only four games, Add Like Mad, Splat Place Value, The Grand Fractional and Bubbles. Splat Place Value puts a target number up at the top of the screen, which you then have to make by choosing numbers from the grid below that to add up to the target number. The Grand Fractional gives students an opportunity to practice estimating fractions, decimals and percentages. Add Like Mad is an arithmetic game, and Bubbles revolves around multiples, factors, prime and square numbers.
Active Algebra Games
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The Active Algebra games are Rob8 the Robot, Elephant Wallpaper, Fishy Equations and Solve it. Rob8 the Robot involves a robot with a selection of different brains, and each one performs a different function, such as addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. The aim of the game is to determine which functions each brain performs. Fishy Equations are algebraic equations based around the weight of two fish. Students must try to work out the weight of one of the two fish that are weighed at the same time.
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