Games for Chromebook are listed below by grade. Any of the links can be copied and pasted into your Google Classroom assignments to give your students immediate access. For students who do not have home Internet access, most of these same games can be downloaded on a phone or tablet and played offline. There are currently 20 web games available.
| GAMES FOR GRADES 3-5 | ||
| Making Camp Premium – teaches multiplication and division and Ojibwe history. | Play Game | Learn More |
| Making Camp Lakota – teaches division by single-digit divisors and Lakota history. Can be played in English or Lakota. | Play Game | Learn More |
| Making Camp Dakota – division by two-digit divisors and Dakota history. | Play Game | Learn More |
| Making Camp Bilingual – Ojibwe history, multiplication and division. Can be played in English or Spanish | Play Game | Learn More |
| Tribu Matemática – Un juego que enseña multiplicación, división e historia, para hispanohablantes. | Jugar El Juego | Learn More |
| Bake-a-palooza – Short game to teach dividing unit fractions by integer | Play Game | Learn More |
| Bake-a-palooza Español – Spanish version of Bake It Till You Make It | Play Game | Learn More |
| Follow the Bubbles – Short game reviewing multiplication and teaching about primary sources and the Lewis & Clark Expedition. | Play Game | Learn More |
| GAMES FOR GRADES 5 – 7 | ||
| Animosh: An Ojibwe Legend – Addresses theme “The study of people, places, and environments” & Minnesota History Standard | Play Game | Learn More |
| Forgotten Trail – teaches fractions, decimals and statistics, in the context of Ojibwe history | Play Game | Learn More |
| Minnesota Turtles – Short game teaching the concepts of indigenous and endangered species and converting fractions to decimals. | Play Game | Learn More |
| All That Math Jazz – Short game teaching jazz history and using ratios. | Play Game | Learn More |
| All That Jazz Music – Short game teaching jazz history and music vocabulary | Play Game | Learn More |
| AzTech: The Story Begins – teaches multi-step problem solving, basic statistics, and real-world applications of math while introducing pre-Columbian Central American history. Fully bilingual (English/Spanish). | Play Game | Learn More |
| AzTech: Meet the Maya – Use your knowledge of statistics and history to survive in the Mayan jungle | Play Game | Learn More |
| Disaster Deduction Detectives – Learn mean, median and quartiles | Play Game | Learn More |
| Disaster Deduction Detectives: Division Decisions | Play Game | Learn More |
| Making Camp Navajo- Whether you are raising sheep, weaving blankets or feeding an orphan lamb, you’ll need to use ratios and proportions. | Play Game | Learn More |
| Bozeman Trail – Explore competing perspectives of the same set of events, in Northern Plains history. | Play Game | Learn More |
| Warrior Vets – This game teaches about primary sources and shares stories of notable Native American veterans from World War I through the present. . | Play Game | Learn More |
MAKING CAMP SERIES FOR GRADES 3-5
Making Camp Premium
In “Making Camp: Premium,” players practice multiplication and division skills while learning math problem-solving strategies. They’ll also be introduced to Ojibwe history. PLUS get the completely new words challenges section, an activity randomizer, and more. Customize your virtual wigwam inside and out. Earn points by solving math problems, learning about language arts, and answering social studies questions in the village-building simulation game.
Play Making Camp Premium!
Making Camp Lakota
Learn how the Lakota lived. Experience the Lakota language. Improve math skills. In Making Camp: Lakota, players practice multiplication and division skills. They’ll also be introduced to Lakota history and culture. Earn points by solving math problems and answering social studies questions in the village-building simulation game as you earn items to customize your tipi. Making Camp: Lakota is the FIRST fully English/Lakota bilingual, cross-curricular math video game. Made with the Thunder Valley Community Development Corp.
Play Making Camp Lakota!
Making Camp Dakota: Past & Present
Making Camp: Dakota – Past & Present draws from game design workshops conducted with youth from the Upper Sioux Community (Minnesota) and Spirit Lake (North Dakota). The game combines both math and Dakota culture, both traditional and contemporary, by leveraging oral storytelling and teaching standards-aligned advanced division skills. The game is recommended for students in Grade 4-6.
Play Making Camp Dakota: Past & Present
Making Camp Bilingual
In Making Camp, players practice multiplication and division skills while learning math problem-solving strategies. They’ll also be introduced to Ojibwe history. Earn points by solving math problems and answering social studies questions in the village-building simulation game.
Making Camp: Bilingual covers a subset of the content in Making Camp Premium, but Making Camp: Bilingual can be played in English or Spanish.
Play Making Camp Bilingual
Tribu Matemática
Our version in Spanish as the first language of Making Camp Bilingual. In this game, you will test your mathematical knowledge of multiplication and division, while learning about the Native American culture. You can choose between the categories: Numbers, Society, or Random to play fun mini-games that will teach you how to multiply and divide in an easy and entertaining way. In addition, Math Tribe has educational videos.
Play Tribu Matemática
GAMES FOR GRADES 5-7
Forgotten Trail
Forgotten Trail follows two teenagers who apply their knowledge of fractions, decimals, measurement and statistics to retrace the Ojibwe migration through the U.S. and Canada. We fit in the cultural part through stories and flashbacks.
Play Forgotten Trail
AzTech: The Story Begins
Click here for the AZTECH: THE STORY BEGINS TEACHERS GUIDE with answers to all math and vocabulary questions, game play ‘cheat sheet’ and everything else you need to know.
Journey through the past to the present. Discover the importance of math, on everything from building to farming to business as you travel through time in your quest to get home to Iowa. Learn history and even a second language along the way. What starts as a typical day in history class for Xitlali and José turns into a day nothing like any other. Find your homework. Get to school before the bell rings. And definitely stay away from that book your teacher told you not to touch! AzTech: The Story Begins teaches multi-step problem solving, basic statistics, and real-world applications of math while introducing you to pre-Columbian Central American history. The game is fully bilingual (English/Spanish).
Play AzTech: The Story Begins
AzTech: Meet the Maya (Grades 5-8)
Mr. Gonzalez told you not to touch that book! Now, you’re in the Mayan jungle. Use your knowledge of statistics and history to survive. AzTech: Meet the Maya can be played in English or as a bilingual English/Spanish experience. The language of instruction is controlled by the player on every single page within the game, including text, audio, and video content. The game is fully bilingual (English/Spanish).
Play Aztech: Meet the Maya
Making Camp Navajo (Beta)
Whether you are raising sheep, weaving blankets or feeding an orphan lamb, you’ll need to use ratios and proportions. Create your own designs and build up your flock.
Making Camp Navajo is in beta. Stay tuned for the final version release, coming soon!
Play Making Camp Navajo
Disaster Deduction Detectives – Learn basic statistics
Disaster Deduction Detectives is a five-level game to teach mean, median and quartiles in context. Students will learn how data tracking and analysis can support important decisions made in real-world scenarios.
Don’t have time to play the whole game yourself but want to assign it? We have you covered. For a teacher cheat sheet, click here
Play Disaster Deduction Detectives.
Disaster Deduction Detectives: Division Decisions
DDD: Division Decisions is a four-level game to teach division of fractions in context. Students will learn how dividing fractions can support important decisions made in real-world scenarios. Specifically, the game covers mathematics standards to teach students to “interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.”
Play Disaster Deduction Detectives: Division Decisions
Non-Math Games
Animosh: An Ojibwe legend
In “Animosh: The Giant’s Gift”, learn about the Ojibwe legend on how the dog became to be man’s loyal protector. Read the Ojibwe legend, play mini-games, and complete activities that assess your understanding of the story being told. This game address NCSS theme – The study of people, places, and environments enables us to understand the relationship between human populations and the physical world and Minnesota State Standard – History Sub-strand 4, Standard 15 “North America was populated by indigenous nations that had developed a wide range of social structures, political systems, and economic activities, and whose expansive trade networks extended across the continent.”
Play Animosh: An Ojibwe legend
Bozeman Trail
Set against the backdrop of the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie, the Bozeman Trail is a short-cut off the Oregon Trail that students explore to learn about Northern Plains history (1862-1876). What sets this game apart from any other programming in its class is the chance to explore competing perspectives of the same set of events, revealing the full historical context of the era.
Play Bozeman Trail
Warrior Vets
Students learn the definition and examples of primary sources along with the history of Native American veterans in the 20th century to the present. While this game does not focus on mathematics, there is an accompanying project-based lesson that includes ratio and proportion.
Play Warrior Vets
Warm-up Games
Because we know that sometimes you need an attention grabber or a change of pace, Warm-up Games are short games, less than 10 minutes, addressing a single standard.
Bake-a-palooza
Taylor and Alex have to divide fractions by an integer to compute the winning recipe for the $10,000 Bake-a-palooza prize.
Play Bake-a-palooza
Bake-a-palooza (Español)
The Spanish version of Bake-a-palooza.
Play Bake-a-palooza (Español)
All That Math Jazz
Learn some of the famous names in jazz history and how math factors into jazz. Address the standard “Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.”
Play All That Math Jazz
All That Jazz Music
This begins with the same history as the Jazz Math game, but rather than discussion of beats per note, this warm-up assesses music history vocabulary.
Play All That Jazz Music
Minnesota Turtles
This short game introduces the concepts of indigenous species, thriving, threatened and “special concern” in the context of the nine species of turtles indigenous to the state of Minnesota. It can also be used in lessons on converting fractions to decimals.