[papad]

DragonBox is one of my favorites to teach basic algebra to my eight year old nephew: http://www.dragonboxapp.com/. It came out of a research project at U of Washington.

I also love doing Maker projects because I believe the best way to teach math is to build real-world, functional things that show the end purpose of math. For example, I have done this workshop with my nephew too which really engaged his interest in math and STEM more broadly: http://www.einsteinsworkshop.com/now-enrolling.

[murphysbooks]

My 5 and 7 year old LOVE DragonBox. (I would be bragging more, but they get into pretty big fights over whose turn it is.) The way it eased them into algebra is so simple that it is genius.

All math should be that approachable.

Here is a fun game then... BTW you happen to be doing math.