Making Math Fun with MathNook
MathNook was formed by Jan and Tommy Hall. Jan has over 30 years of experience in the education field and Tommy is a programmer with a math degree who is also an avid gamer. This combination makes MathNook stand out with their unique math games that not only are educational but are also very playable, causing players to come back for more.
Q: What educational solutions does MathNook currently offer for young learners?
MathNook: Currently, MathNook.com has math games where students can practice skills from counting all the way up to beginning algebra. All of our games are free to play online without any membership or sign-up required. This free-to-play model allows institutions such as schools, libraries, and homeschoolers to play our math games by just going to MathNook.com. We are currently expanding our large inventory of exclusive online games as well as converting some of our more popular games to Spanish. MathNook is also bringing back some of the more popular Flash games by either rewriting them or running them via an emulator. Our Spanish games are used across the globe by many Spanish-speaking countries. The Spanish versions allow students whose primary language is Spanish to keep up their math skills while in an English-speaking classroom. Comparisons between the English and Spanish versions can help students with math terminology.
Q: Math can be a hard subject for some. How important is it to teach children math skills in a way that they can have fun and still retain the knowledge they are absorbing?
MathNook: Math games are a fun way to practice a skill, whether the student is at school or at home. Math games can be used to reinforce a skill that has been recently or newly taught before the student begins independent practice and can allow the skill to be practiced throughout the year. If a skill is taught and after 6 weeks is not revisited, the skill is often forgotten. So, playing math games can prevent this from happening. Practicing at home with math games will continue to develop a student’s math skills and promote automaticity with math facts and math terminology. Automatic recall of math skills prevents multi-step math problems from becoming laborious and overwhelming, which often causes students to give up. So not only are math games engaging, but they also help with retention of a math skill as well as build a student’s confidence.
MathNook offers free-to-play math games that practice skills ranging from counting numbers all the way up to quadratic equations. And there’s never any membership or sign-up required. MathNook’s goal is to help develop critical thinking and problem-solving in order to improve math skills via our fun and exciting math games.
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