MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hooda Math, the leading online math games site, today announced the introduction of its 150th math game DuBlox (hm.gs/dublox). With the growth of its many popular games online, Hooda Math has over 1.5 million unique monthly visitors and more than 10 million players since its launch in 2008. Teachers and students alike are fans of the website and it is used by students in every state and in many countries around the world.
Hooda Math is focused on kids learning to love math, not being pushed into the process. Most sites have a cost factor and were not dynamic in nature – so founder and CEO Michael Edlavitch and his wife set out to create a free online educational video games service that would transform the marketplace.
“As a former middle school math teacher, I know how resistant kids can be to learning math,” said company founder and CEO Michael Edlavitch. “Smart, yet highly accessible math games like Skater Math offer kids a fun way to learn and begin to love mathematical thinking. I’m dedicated to continuing to bring dynamic educational video games to kids that simultaneously help teachers evaluate the mathematical thinking of their students.”
Hooda Math focuses on 3 main math games categories for students ranging in age from 8-16 years old – with increasing levels of difficulty appropriate for all students’ learning needs. The core categories of the math games at Hood Math include:
- Geometry Games to make and test conjectures about geometric properties and relationships and to develop deeper understanding of the relationships among angles, side lengths, perimeters, areas, and volume of two- and three- dimensional objects.
- Arithmetic Games to gain knowledge of numbers and operations including but not limited to addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percents and to apply that knowledge to simulated real world situations.
- Logic Games to improve skills for all ability levels in problem solving, inductive and deductive reasoning, and the foundations of algebraic thinking.
Because Hooda Math games are less traditional and more constructivist, they are easily differentiated for all levels and can be used in mixed ability classrooms with students with varying degrees of math skills. HoodaMath.com also has free printable worksheets that go along with many of the free online math games, so that teachers can assess students work in the computer lab.
About Hooda Math
Hooda Math is run by a licensed math educator whom formerly taught middle school mathematics in an urban school district. As a teacher, Michael Edlavitch saw that there was a huge gap for creating a powerful, positive relationship with math for kids ages 8-16. As a leading online math games site, Hooda Math encourages students to see math in an entirely new light. HoodaMath.com helps special-ed students and students that normally fail in math build confidence that they DO have math skills, and their teachers can see that they are using complex mathematical thinking because our math games are not just symbolic in the methods that math is traditionally taught. More information about Hooda Math and its online educational video games can be found at HoodaMath.com.