Coolmath-games.com Critique

CoolMath-Game.com is a website that is popular with many elementary aged students. The website's name gives the initial impression that it provides math related games that students will think are "cool" and want to play and, by doing so, further their math skills. This website however is not exactly what many educators or parents would expect. While the website does provide some math related games, such as Sum Links 2 and Make 15, it also provides students with games that are skill, trivia, logic, and strategy based. While these skills could be beneficial to students and furthering their problem solving skills or memory some educators are beginning to not allow their students to use this website while in class because they want students to practice math skills, not play games that are not curriculum based. From an education viewpoint I agree with the educators that CoolMath-Games.com is not a great resource to give to students. The math related games are great but there is no way to make sure students are only playing the math games.  If there was a way for the teacher to limit the students to only the math related games this could be a great resource because the math games seem to be fun for the students and I believe they would benefit from them. This might be a good resource for students to be able to use at home or during indoor recess to play games that can help enhance their problem solving skills or they can on their own play the math games that will help them strengthen their math skills but should not be used as a resource for students to practice math during class time.