One of my colleagues showed the rest of our department members this very cool math games Website called Manga High. The games here are very creative, well designed, and some of them get pretty difficult pretty fast. There are games to fit most grade levels from about grade 7 upwards, although some of the "Lite" versions would be accessible to even younger students.
One of the downsides is that the games are Flash-based, so you (or your students) can't play them using an iPad.
But a great feature for educators is that you can sign up for a free trial account that will allow you to set up your classes so that you can track whether or not and for how long students are playing, what levels they achieve for each game, and more. So a homework assignment might be "Reach level 6 playing the game "Save Our Dumb Planet".
The trial only lasts for 30 days, so like many Websites, they hook you in and then make you pay to keep going. The site doesn't indicate how much a full subscription costs, but I requested a school quote.
Even without the class setup for monitoring and tracking you students, it's still a great math game site; I will have my students using it regardless.
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