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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Arcademic Skill Builders

Arcademic Skill Builders promise the following:

Arcademic Skill Builders are research-based and standards-aligned educational games that offer an innovative approach to teaching basic academic skills. We incorporate features of arcade games and educational practices into fun online games that will engage, motivate, and teach your students.

Play games for free right here on our site! Click a button below to play. We have multi-player and single player games. In the future we'll add features enabling you to save records, tailor content for differentiated instruction, and pinpoint student problem areas!


The few games I played were fun, in that competitive way. The number facts questions would suit lower levels, but the ratio questions are definitely for higher level students (I felt very challenged!!).

The mutliplayer games mean that students can play against others in their class or against others in the world. There are also single player games for the less competitive.

The games are a chance to reinforce internet safety rules as well, as children have the opportunity to use their own user name or a randomly generated one. While it gives their name, there are no other identifiers (eg country, age).

Categories include addition & subtraction games, multiplication & division games, fraction & ratio games, language art games (eg verbs, vowels, capitals).

While not printable, there is feedback about percentage correct and the questions that were wrong. A teacher could take a screen dump for each child's game if a record was needed.

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