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Playing and learning mathematics

Abstract

Mathematics are fundamental for our lives, however, not all children like them or are facilitated to learn them, so teachers and parents can take advantage of the new didactic models based on the game to not only make children want to learn them, but that they feel motivated to surpass themselves while they have fun and learn them. There are different ways of doing this, such as gamification, serious games, game-based learning and digital game-based learning (DGBL); although the latter has proven to be very efficient in the teaching-learning processes of mathematics, it is not always easy to find math games that are free, that are in Spanish or basic English so that any primary school child can use them, that they are on the Internet in safe places where minors are not exposed to pop-ups with inappropriate content. Besides, they are legal and respect copyright; so this work will present several safe sites that are recommended access for children to start learning math playing.