Jun 26 2008
Tutpup
Twitter always sends me to interesting places and one of the last sites it sent me to was one called Tutput. On this site, you can sign up for a teacher account and then set up a registration for children to sign up with that will make them part of your online class. Then the children can play games against children all over the world who are logged in at the same time. I pretended to be a kid so that I could test it out and felt bad as I was teamed up against what were probably real kids somewhere else. Still, I soundly lost the first match. Of course, I selected the hardest level of multiplication just to see what this looked like and my first question was 49×27. I was busy trying to work this out in my head rather than on paper and in the meantime my component had solved three questions!
I then tried a couple of easier level activities and soundly walloped the poor children I was against (sorry kids but you’re got to learn to toughen up in life!) I think this would be VERY popular in the classroom and each time you win, a summary of the game gets put onto your win wall. There is also a graduation board which shows you which game levels you have completed. As per usual, all of this makes me wish I had a class to try this with!
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What a great site. I used it with my class today, ( a great way to keep my year 5&6 boys happy over wet lunch time number 5!) The children loved seeing which country the`children they were playing, were from, and who in the class won the most points. Great basic facts work. Thanks for finding another great site Suzie.
Another great site Suzie! I showed this one to several principals and they loved it. A little healthy competition adds to the classroom now and then!
Hey Suzie
Thanks for the website tip on this one. I have logged my kids on it and they are loving it, in fact i am having trouble at times to get them off it. The boys are loving it and with the wet weather it has been fantastic.
Passed on the site to other teachers and their kids are loving it as well.
Keep us informed with more of these it is great.
Another Suzie triumph!!