X-Power Interactive: Educators' Editon educational Games and Tools

Card Shark provides computational practice but with a twist. Students must use higher-order thinking skills to create subtraction problems that have a difference close to a target number. Other versions reverse the rule so that students create subtraction problems with a difference further away from the target number.

Odd One Out is a strategy game that allows students to use patterns to win the game. Students remove markers from the board, playing against the computer, to force their opponent to take the last marker. The strategy for this game can be generalized to other games of its type.

Equilibrium is an introduction to solving equations. Students create quantities to balance another quantity.

My Secret Rule I is a function-type game that can be used to introduce expressions, equations or graphing. Students choose numbers that then have a ruled applied to them. A table is created and from the table, students can find the rule. They apply the rule to other numbers and also create the general rule in symbols. This version uses primarily linear functions.

Vanishing Points is a graphing game. A grid is presented with random points. Students play against the computer to knock out as many points as they can with every equation they create. The more points they knock off at one time, the higher the score.

Power Bingo focuses on multiplying monomials. Students create a bingo-type card of possible products of three monomials.

Cross Out introduces factoring, prime numbers, and composite numbers. Students play against the computer as they select numbers and find their factors.

Tile Mania is a game played with virtual Algebra Tiles. Students try to use as many Algebra Tiles as they can to create a rectangular area as close to a polynomial as possible. Their score is based on the number of tiles they are able to use.

My Secret Rule II is a more complex version of My Secret Rule I. The rules often require exponential expressions.

Super Power Bingo focuses on multiplying polynomials. Students create a bingo-type card of possible products of three polynomials.

Find A Place is a place value game with rational numbers. Students are given random digits which they place on a game board as they try to create a number as close as they can to a target number.