A friend of mine sent me a link to Lure of the Labyrinth for my son. He loved the game Timez Attack and has been pestering me to buy the upgrade. Well, I really wasn't ready to drop $40 on an upgrade when he knows his times tables well. We checked Lure of the Labyrinth out last night and he's been playing it all morning. He loves it.
Lure of the Labyrinth is a free, online immersive game that takes place in an underground, monster-inhabited world. Students disguise themselves as a monster and then maneuver through various math missions to save their beloved pet who has gone missing. These math missions entail middle school level pre-algebra skills such as proportions, fractions, ratios, variables, equations, and numbers and operations. The math portions are cleverly done and thus doesn't feel like a "math game" that happens to be online but more like an online game that "happens" to have math. Trust me, this is important with a child who can smell anything that has a hint of schooling in it.
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