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A Twitter friends sent me over here thinking someone might be able to help out. I'm working with our GT teacher for next year and we're trying to find some Geometry GAMES for the 1st graders to play & learn. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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BBC Bitesize has lots of things my DS has enjoyed; for very early geometry there's this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize//numeracy/shapes/index.shtml
I don't see any geometry-only games as such at the next level up (KS2) but there are lots of game-like computer activities (under Teachers for example).

Googling geometry game gave lots of hits, but I don't have experience of anything else that I remember, sorry.

Ah, but: depending how widely you are prepared to interpret "geometry", you might consider http://fantasticcontraption.com/ , which doesn't teach geometry as such but certainly encourages geometrical thinking.

My kid loves BBC bitesize too!!

I just found these beautiful geometry patterns and was planning to do it this hols with my son -
http://www.montessoriworld.org/Handwork/stitch/stitch1.html

Its for stitching but can easily be modified as a pencil/ruler type activity.

This shld be a separate thread but, CollinsMum, how do u guys find alcumus? My son's math is all over the shop. He loves algebra (Ed zacarro), but I've asked for him to set that aside for awhile because he has huge gaps in elementary math, which Aleks seems to have patched. He finds it a total bore though and wants to jump back into Ed zacarro. We've recently found some puzzles and I was hoping to stay at this level (grade 4,5,6-ish) to play around. Any thoughts here will be appreciated!

I'll do a new thread in Recommended Resources...

Thank you! I'll check those out. I hadn't started searching in earnest yet but this will get me moving in the right direction.

Time4Learning has a ton of neat geometry lessons/games (including one and two dementional shape recognition, pattern recognition/sorting, and movement. They usually cost $19.95/month, but they have a deal going in the summer for $4.99 for the first month (and a two-week or your money back trial period)

I signed up four days ago. My dd did 13 math lessons (not to mention just as much of the other curriculum) the first two days, before I decided she some pacing was in order. If you sign up for 1st grade math, you get access to the K, 1st, and 2nd grade curriculums. I'm not sure if I'll continue it past a month or two, but for my family, it has undoubtably been worth the five bucks.

I like how the sessions both explain and have a lot of interactivity, but perhaps it is not as "game-like" as you are hoping for. That being said, I've never seen my dd react this way to any other on-or offline curriculum -- it's worth looking at the demos at the very least.