Money Practice and Games
- Clip It: This practical money-handling game uses coupons to simulate practical shopping and change-making experiences.
- Adding Money Game: Teach kids to add up sums with different bills and coins quickly with this free online game.
- Teaching Money Exchange: How do you teach money skills to students with autism? This page hosts specially designed resources for teachers and parents seeking to teach money-handling skills to students on the spectrum.
- Monopoly: A traditional board game, this fun activity teaches money-handling and change-making from beginning to end.
- The Game of Life: Another board game, Life focuses on the role money plays in life’s adventures. Players must handle, count, and exchange money throughout.
Business Practice and Games
- Civilization and Empire: Although the game Civilization is most often associated with social studies, it also offers business training with essential skills like resource management and budgeting.
- Zoo Tycoon: This game is great for animal-lovers who need business prep. Players must manage attractions, vendors, animals, employees, rides, and more, all while balancing the books.
- Windfall: In this business simulation, players must power a small town with wind energy while turning a profit, maintaining the citizens’ peace, and not spoiling the landscape.
- The Small Business Game: This UK online simulator gives players an advanced and nuanced experience dealing with common obstacles small-business owners face.
- The Stock Market Game: This vast simulation is modeled on the stock exchange, teaching students to buy, sell, and understand stocks.
- SimCEO: Students may use this game to better understand the complexities of running a large organization, including everything from mission statements to natural resource management.
- Innov8: This simulation from IBM trains users in business process management.
- Gazillionaire: Handling up to six human players, this complex business simulation game has students compete in a supply-and-demand environment.
Accounting Games
- Balance Your Checking Account: Teens and young adults need to know how to deal with a checking account before they actually open one. This simulator helps them practice without risk.
- Financial Soccer: Put together by the same people who make the FIFA games, this free online video game trains young adults in basic money management skills.
- Sustainable Luxury: An In-Class Accounting Challenge: In this team game, students compete in teams to come up with an eco-friendly way to improve a luxury hotel’s bottom line. This game features some business training in addition to detailed accounting work.
- Charge! Students learn the uses and risks associated with credit cards in this free online game.
- Gen I Revolution: This online game helps middle- and high-school students develop skills related to everything from investing to spending.
- Invest Quest: This game from the Federal Trade Commission hones investment knowledge for students.
- CashFlow: In this online game, players learn the basics of personal financing in addition to advanced investing terminology.
- Teen Budgeting Game: This simple printed exercise helps teens learn how to create and balance a budget on paper.
- Dungeon Accounting: Dungeons and Dragons offers plenty of accounting practice for both regular players and dungeon masters. Players must manage personal inventories (including fictional money that may be vital for the quest) and also keep track of gaming data, such as hit points. It’s a prime opportunity for spreadsheet training as well.
- Hands-on Banking for Teens: Using this simulator, teens gain vocabulary and practical banking skills.
- Financial Lesson Plans: This teacher resource gives teachers accessible tools to develop engaging lessons to help students acquire financial skills.
- Consumer Awareness Lesson Plan: Teach students practical spending and buying habits through this free lesson plan.
- Payback: This basic online game helps students gain perspective on the costs of college and what they can realistically afford, both now and after graduation.
Everyday Math Games
- Upgrade: This free online game helps players calculate remainders.
- SuperMath Golf Course: Online golfing games have taken off, and this online game uses that to teach angles and distances.
- Ghost Hunters: Designed as a puzzle game, this tool builds problem-solving skills while simultaneously teaching angles.
- Rocket Angles: This simple space game helps students learn to use protractors and improve their understanding of angles.
- Yahtzee: This classic game revolves around addition and basic number practice. It adapts well for multiplication and algebra lessons.
- Yacht: If you do not have the funds or number of players for a traditional Yahtzee game, this free online game provides the same lessons.
- Games for the Classroom: These fun games engage students and make learning more entertaining during the school day.
- Weapons of Math Destruction: A free online game, this activity hones addition and equation skills.
- Fractions Division: Introduce students to this free online game to help them multiply and divide fractions with greater ease.
- Spinner: This online game develops students’ understanding of probability.
- Escape the Mansion: Tying the fun of online escape games to math practice, this page has an escape game that asks you to find your way out of a locked mansion. Can you escape?
- Sudoku: This free online game allows students to play this math puzzle game anywhere with an Internet connection.