Arcademic Game Descriptions

Ratio Martian

Type: Single-player
Content: Ratio Recognition
NCTM Standards Strand: Numbers & Operations: Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems

Ratio Martian provides practice in recognizing ratios. A friendly martian feeds on ratios. When a ratio appears, the student strikes it with the martian to eat it. Ratio Martian does not like to eat items that are not ratios.

Play Ratio Martian

System Requirements:
OS: Windows, MAC
Recent Internet Browser: IE, Firefox, Safari
Flash Player

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