Since then, Coolmath-Games.com has grown to be the most popular educational website in the United States (and, not to be left out, Coolmath.com is the second most popular.)  (Stats can be verified at Quantcast.com - Spring 2011.)  In May (2011), our Cool Math Games were played by almost 21 million users!

A question that I sometimes get from grown-ups is, "Hey, I don't see numbers in some of these games.  Are they really math?"  Well, first of all, we've added more than math onto the site.  Coolmath-Games.com now has Reading and Spelling games, Geography games and Science games - woo hoo!  We also have some cool jigsaw puzzles and mazes.  But, I know what they are asking about - our cool "thinking" games like B-Cubed, Snorzees and Rotate and Roll.  At first glance, these might not seem like "educational" games...  But, just try to play them.  I dare you!  They'll seem simple at first...  But, then, something happens...  You have to plan ahead.  You have to figured things out.  You have to strategize.  You have to use logic.  You have to use your brain!  And THAT is what math is really all about.

Besides, the games are FUN and way COOL.  Kids of all ages will, then, associate "Math" with "fun" and "cool" and then?  There aren't as many complaints about doing that math homework.  How do I know this?  I get LOTS of "thank-you" emails from happier parents and teachers...  and kids too.  It's all pretty cool.

If you've got little kids, let me tell you more about the games that we have for them.  I'm talking about kids who really can't read or do any arithmetic yet.  Yes, we have some very cool math games for them too! 

Before kids are ready to learn real math, they can learn lots of things that will help them with math - like shapes and colors or having to figure something out.  Here is a direct link to our Cool Math Games for Ages 3-5, but you will find a link to them at the top right of every page on Coolmath-Games.com. 

Some suggestions for classroom use:

Our Lemonade Stand and Coffee Shop games are great business simulation games and many teachers utilize these in their lesson plans.  The kids have to buy inventory and make guesses at how much inventory they will sell and at what cost for the next day's weather conditions.

Our B-Cubed and Bloxorz games are great for classes to play together.  There's some real brain work and figuring involved on these.  The coolest thing about B-Cubed is that there's more than one solution.  You can break the kids into groups and see how many different solutions you can come up with.

Also note that we've disabled the "high score" functions on all our games so that you can have real classroom competitions.  Also, this way your kids won't get bummed out because they can't beat the high score of some tech guy who lives in his Mom's basement.  They can compete against their OWN best score!

And, teachers, please do check out our (relatively) new Reading/Spelling games and Geography games.  Heck, even I can't stop playing our Geography games! 

You can hop on over to our "About Us" page to find out who we are!

-- Coolmath Karen