Online Math Games for Special Needs

The internet provides a wealth of information. In the realm of special education, teachers and parents are always looking for new and exciting ways for students to learn. What a better way for students to learn than through fun games. Listed below are several websites that provide free online math games for special needs children. Along with the websites you will find brief descriptions of the games as well. It is important to note that when trying to find games to use with children with special needs to evaluate the academic level of the student and use games that match the educational math goals for the student.

The first website is Apples for the Teacher (http://www.apples4theteacher.com/math.html). This website has many games that students can play from counting money, games using the addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and telling time just to name a few. The games are geared for lower level math skills. Theses games are also very inviting with fun characters, are highly interactive, and provide immediate feedback.

Math games for the primary level are the main focus of the following website, http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm. This offers games for addition, subtraction, counting, and money.

For practice on multiples, http://www.smarttutor.com/home/games/sleeboz_game3%20-%20Stampede.swf, offers a fun game in which they give you a number and you have to click on the moving multiples of the specific number.

The next website, http://www.coolmath-games.com/rush/index.html, offers many different types of games for a variety of math topics. The specific topics covered are: addition, subtraction, fractions, shapes, business math, and counting. A variety of math levels are available on this website.

For an even more wide variety of math games, http://www.softschools.com/math/games/ offers practice for comparing numbers, place value, percent, square root and many more. Visit this website to see all of the awesome games offered.

Basic operations are the main topic covered on http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm. This website is also geared for lower level students, but is very fun as well.

Another website that provides fun games is http://www.kidsnumbers.com/. On this website students can practice on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, telling time, geometry, and algebra. This website will work for special needs students of a variety of levels.

If you would like to give your students a break and play some games that are more along the lines of puzzle games, visit http://www.theproblemsite.com/math_games.asp. They have a large amount of fun puzzle games that students can play that will enhance their math skills as well. This website will also be useful for a variety of levels.

All of the websites that I mentioned are just a small sampling of the free online math games for special needs children. These websites are ones that I feel would be very beneficial to use for students that do have special needs to help enhance their math skills.