Teaching Mathematics with Games

In mathematics classroom, giving lessons with games is much effective method for students  in new generation to adapt on the lesson. The students are interested in technology and good at using it. If teachers become math lessons funny with games related math content, the students engage in math lessons. I will give an example about this situation. In my practicum school, teacher I observed sometimes plays online games with 5th grade students in the classroom. In a such lesson, the teacher has opened games from the internet about the topic that she had previously worked on. Then, the teacher wanted the students to enter the site that she opened and choose one of the games she said. There was a game played with the group among these games. The teacher was also playing a game with pupils attending a group. The game was about ranking in fractions. It was appealing to all of the students because it had an average difficulty. Both amusing and consolidating the previous work has been successfully accomplished. Using technology in this way will increase the interest of students in mathematics.

I want to share usefull sites about math games with you. First, I will show the game site mentioned above. The game is about comparing fractions and it has the property of group play. The images related this game is below.

 I think this game is easy for students but they really engage in it. This game also teaches them to be a team. The link of web site including this game is https://www.mathplayground.com . Another game site I like is Math Games. The site is designed in 5 categories. They are grades, skills, games, standards, and features. You can find worksheets or games related mathematics in these categories. Link of the web site is https://www.mathgames.com .