- Chinook (champion checkers computer program) - Jonathan Schaeffer, Dept. of Computing Science, Univ. of Alberta
Chinook is the World Man-Machine Checkers Champion, a title it earned by competing in human tournaments and defeating the best players in the world.
Chinook is the by-product of a research effort started in 1989 into game-playing strategies. The long-term
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- Clash of the Chess Titans - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
Thoughts on the Kasparov-Deep Blue match of 3 May 1997. Throughout history, people have been building machines that can perform tasks better than humans. When Kasparov, referring to his upcoming match, talks about "an area that defines human beings,"
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- ClassZone - McDougal Littell, Publishers
In ClassZone, McDougal Littell has gathered together all of its activities, interactive online resources, research links, chapter quizzes, and other materials that support its popular middle and high school mathematics textbooks, such as Integrated Math
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- CMP Software - Connected Mathematics Project, Michigan State University
Downloadable software designed to accompany CMP units. For the Factor Game winning strategies involve distinguishing between numbers with many factors and numbers with few factors; students analyze game strategies and are introduced to the definitions
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- Colorful Mathematics - Claude Laflamme
An educational software series presenting advanced mathematical concepts to K-12 students in a game-oriented approach. The five games offered use simple coloring and/or drawing techniques to illustrate mathematical concepts from graph theory. Downloadable
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- Combinatorial Games - Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
A collection of interactive combinatorial games, many implemented in both normal and misère versions, including by Kayles, Nimble, and Northcott; variants of Nim, such as Wythoff's Nim; One-Pile and Take-Away games; a subtraction game, a fraction
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- Combinatorial Games Page - Erik Demaine
A combinatorial game usually involves complete information, with no hidden cards and no random randomness - a pure strategy game. Demaine has researched combinatorial puzzles such as Tetris, Clobber, Phutball, Pushing blocks (puzzles involving a robot
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- Computing in a Surreal Realm - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Even among mathematicians, the study of surreal numbers is an obscure pastime. Only a few have occupied themselves in recent years exploring the peculiarities of a number system that includes different kinds of infinities and vanishingly small quantities.
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- Conceptual Math Media, Inc.
Math educational products for both the classroom and family. Master multiplication facts and divisibility rules with PrimePak playing cards; create equations crossword-style with the Equate board game, also available via e-mail. Order products online
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- Connect 4 - Keith Pomakis
Play it on the Web, specifying your own parameters. The site includes the rules of the game.
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- Connect Capture Game - Rick Nordal
This paper and pencil game combines chess with dots-and-boxes. Completing a box "activates" the enclosed chess piece, which may then capture other activated chess pieces for points.
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- Cool Cosmos - Education and Public Outreach Group, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center and the SIRTF Science Center
To communicate the world of infrared astronomy to the public, the Cool Cosmos web site offers: classroom activities; infrared light lessons; infrared astronomy tutorial and timeline; multiwavelength astronomy; Ask an Astronomer; Cosmic Kids; image galleries,
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- CopyCat - Jim Morey
A Java game that revolves around replicating a picture created by several patterned faces of a solid object (like a cube), challenging the mind to understand complex geometrical structures and symmetry. To do well at the game, the player must first become
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- Cosmeo - Discovery Education, Inc.
Homework help from the Discovery Channel. Browse math help by topic to watch math Flash videos (many with closed captioning), read articles, play "brain games," and more. Walk through your math problem with WebMath. Cosmeo's video library has more than
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- The Counting Game - Chris Malumphy
A game for children starting to count, showing a number of objects and asking you to click on the correct number button. A thermometer graphic tells you when you have correctly answered ten questions.
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- Count Us In! - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Fifteen colorful counting and math games designed to help young children understand basic number concepts. Each game has directions and some have levels of difficulty to choose from. Number concepts include: Comparing and Classifying; Patterning; Counting;
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- Creative Java Puzzles - J. L. Read, Enchanted Mind
Games "good for exercising both sides of the brain." Knight's Tour: pass all the squares of the board with the knight, making only legal moves. Peg Solitaire: Remove all the pegs in the least amount of time, finishing with only one peg in the target hole.
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- CROC'Sciences: le net.magazine de la pédagogie des sciences - P. Lambert
Un mensuel faisant le tour des sites scientifiques d'intérêt
pédagogique, soit pour la construction d'un cours, soit pour les
élèves eux-mêmes. Chaque numéro comporte 6
catégories: Mathématiques,
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- CTK Math Games for Kids - Interactive Math Miscellany and Puzzles, Alexander Bogomolny
This site presents a collection of Java-based interactive games and puzzles with mathematical contents and a few practice exercises disguised as games. Alexander Bogomolny, the site's author, writes, "There are a few games whose purpose is to allow for
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- Cube Roll - Cary and Michael Huang
Use the arrow keys to steer a cube along a path of squares towards a final square. Each successive level poses new restrictions based on which faces of the block can or cannot roll onto the square path, making a game out spatial thinking of polyhedral
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- Cuisenaire Math - ETA/Cuisenaire
From the makers of Cuisenaire Rods: Connecting Cuisenaire Rods, Cuisenaire Roddles (board games and puzzles that emphasize spatial reasoning skills), Cuisenaire Rods for the Overhead, Magnetic Cuisenaire Rods, and other manipulatives. Publications include
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- Cuisenaire Rods and Math (SMILE) - Linda Easter, Dewitt Clinton Elementary School
A lesson designed to familiarize students with the history, development and philosophy of Cuisenaire Rods; to teach them to find the least common multiple of several given numbers using Cuisenaire rods; and to reinforce previously taught math skills by
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- CUNY Games Network - CUNY Academic Commons
Blog about the pedagogical uses of both digital and non-digital math games, how they improve student success, and how they encourage research and scholarship in the developing field of games-based learning. Posts, which date back to July, 2011, have included
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- CYBERCHASE Online - Educational Broadcasting Corporation (PBS.org)
Companion site to CYBERCHASE, PBS's animated math adventure series, intended to foster math literacy and problem-solving skills for kids ages 8-11. Play interactive games or practice with tools such as the talking calculator, crack challenging puzzles,
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- Cyberkidz - Chato BV, touchscreensoftware.nl
A free website with more than 50 games about math, literacy and geography. In English and Dutch.
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- Cyberkidz.net - Chato BV
Online educational games for primary schools, widely used in the Netherlands and recently translated into English.
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- Daily Squares - Steven Pomeroy
Arrange the digits in the 4×4 grid so that each column, row, and diagonal adds up to 34. Visit every day for a new magic square puzzle; check the archive for past challenges.
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- The Da Vinci Game - Martin Woods & Allison Carmichael
A board game with 800 challenges, including 200 numerical Logic Key questions. These can involve solving equations, using probability or applying lateral thinking, such as in the question: "cone alone flour minus call".
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- Deal or No Deal > Game - NBC
A Flash version of the television game show hosted by Howie Mandel. Begin by choosing one of 26 briefcases. Each contains cash -- as little as one cent to as much as one million dollars. Then either stay with your original briefcase choice or make a "deal"
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- Desafios Matemáticos - Paulo Ferro
Cinco desafios novos cada mês. Ferro, um professor de matemática licenciado pela Universidade de Coimbra, tambem oferece demonstracões de geometria dinâmica, jogos matemáticos, biografias de matemáticos, exames
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- A Dice Game - Doug Ensley, Shippensburg University
In this game, two players roll dice repeatedly taking note of who has the higher roll each time. The original number of dice for each person and the number of rolls are set by the user. At the end, the percentage of wins for each player is displayed.
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- Digital Deletions - Pierre Ysewijn
An interactive JavaScript version of Conway's Digital Deletions game, in which numbers in a string are lowered to zero or erased. Users can play with different numbers of digits, different strategy levels, different starters, different sources of digits
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- DigitalLesson.com - Mark Tully
Website for middle school math teachers that has middle school math lessons, games, projects and activities for use in the classroom. Free newsletter, other resources for sale.
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- Digitz: Multiplication Math Games - Fred Lusignan
A portable electronic multiplication game that reinforces these multiplication concepts: multiples, multiplication facts, factors, factor pairs, and sequencing. Players race against a clock, and the game handles single or multiple players. Order online
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- Disfruta Las Matemáticas - Rod Pierce, mathsisfun.com
Spanish language version of Maths is Fun.
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- Divisibility War - Diane Reed
A game designed for secondary level students studying basic mathematics to use the divisibility tests to determine whether a number is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10.
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- DreamBox - DreamBox Learning, Inc.
Online, standards-based math adventure games for individualized learning in kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade. See-a-lesson and register a trial account. The site also offers parents free "printables," tips, research articles, and other downloads,
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- Dr Mike's Math Games for Kids - Michael Hartley
Free printable and online math games for kids: traffic jam, times tables, magic square, magic hexagon, sugar sugar, Archimedean tilings, magical calculator birthday trick, and more. Newsletters include Monday Morning Math, with what math says about daily
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- Dynamic Labyrinths - Inge Schwank, Institute for Cognitive Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Osnabrueck
Labyrinth construction sets to download or play online with Flash plug-in.
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- Easymaths - Echelon Systems Ltd.
A UK math site with GCSE tutorials, notes to be used as introductions to topics or for revision; an Exam Bank with exam-style questions and model answers for ages 12-16; book reviews, a Practice Room with practice maths problems and tips for solving them;
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- Echecs & Math: Jeux, Exercices et Méthodes - Bernard Faujour
Java et JavaScript pour apprendre la géométrie des tangrams et des polyominoes. Les problèmes incluent questions de logique, et textes et tableaux. Les ressources incluent jeux pour télécharger, et une fabrique d'exercices
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- Economic and Game Theory - David K. Levine, Department of Economics, UCLA
A site that uses the tools of modern economic theory and game theory to explore how the interaction of intelligent goal-seeking individuals determines social outcomes. The site offers general interest material, undergraduate and graduate course material,
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- eDscape - Computer Curriculum Corporation (CCCnet)
eDscape is CCC's professional development website for educators, with free online courses on using the Web and technology in the classroom, discussions and conferences, partner sites, and online stores (Simon & Schuster). You must register to participate
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- Eighth Grade (AAA Math) - John Banfill
Interactive math exercises, lessons, and games covering basic arithmetic concepts and methods, for eighth grade.
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- Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science (E-GEMS) - British Columbia, Canada
Archives of a collaborative effort by scientists, educators, and professional video game and educational software developers to do research on and develop teaching materials that integrate video games and computer-based explorations with existing classroom
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- Elementary Math Games and Activities - Math Lessons, Belmont Education
Games, newsletters, articles, and worksheets. Games are for sale, other items free with registration. The authors also post new ideas and receive feedback on the Teaching Math Blog, where past articles and videos have included "30 Tips for teaching Elementary
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- Elementary Math Games - Elementary Math Games
Free educational math games and printable math worksheets.
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- Elementary School Math Club - UTOPIA, University of Texas at Austin
Five plans for group activities that may be used by teachers or parents: Math Mobile; Number Paths; "Guess the Number" Magic Trick; The Human Counting Machine; and A Math Mural. This University of Texas at Austin site also offers Lesson Plans & Activities
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- The Elverson Puzzle Co., Inc.
The creators of Jacob's Revenge, the classic wine bottle puzzle. Elverson Puzzle also makes a Tangram Puzzle, the eleven tiles of which form a 6 inch diameter circle; Farkle, a game played with extra large wooden dice or online, with the dice roller that
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- Emaths.Info - Vinod Sebastian
Math tools, formulas, tutorials, videos, tables, and "curios," such as the unusual properties of 153, 1729, and 2519. See in particular Emaths' interactive games, which include the N queens problem, Towers of Hanoi, and partition magic, which finds a
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