Coolmath Games

Cool Math Games is an online web portal that serves as a platform for Flash and HTML web browser games. Cool Math Games first went online in 1997.[1][2][3]

CoolMathGames.com
Type of site
Education
Available inEnglish
Area servedWorldwide
IndustryEducation
ParentCoolmath Network
URLcoolmathgames.com
AdvertisingYes
Launched1997 (1997)

The site hosts only games that they believe are non-violent and educational.[2][4]

In November 2019, Popular Mechanics listed Cool Math Games as one of its "50 most important websites" since the internet was created.[5]

Shutdown hoax

Rumors began spreading in Summer 2019 that Cool Math Games would be shutting down in 2020 due to the discontinuation of Adobe Flash Player and a petition on Change.org to stop it shutting down even reached over 100,000 signatures.[2][6][3][7] However, Cool Math Games confirmed that it would not be shutting down and was focusing on getting new HTML5 games and converting old Flash Games to HTML5.[3][2]

Reception

Coolmath Games has received generally positive reception. The Daily Dot called the website’s library of content “impressive” in a run-down of the best games on the site.[8]

gollark: It would be like trying to reverse-engineer a program by counting the number of zeros in the CPU's registers while it's running, or something.
gollark: To clarify, I'm saying you can't really usefully predict someone's behaviour by saying "well, they went serotonin and dopamine", since those are too low-level.
gollark: I'm responding to TF3, not you.
gollark: That's not exactly true (humans are not anything like rational [WHATEVER NEUROCHEMICAL] maximizers), and even if they *were* it wouldn't be very helpful since the processes involved are intractably complex.
gollark: Sometimes I move from my chair to retrieve food and such.

References
  1. "Freudenthal Instituut". Universiteit Utrecht (in Dutch). 2014-07-09. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  2. EDT, Cammy Harbison On 6/3/19 at 4:10 PM (2019-06-03). "No, Cool Math Games Isn't Shutting Down: Company Confirms Adobe Flash 2020 Shutdown Won't Kill The Site". Newsweek. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  3. Haasch, Palmer (2019-06-05). "Despite rumors, Cool Math Games is not shutting down in 2020". Polygon. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  4. "About Us". Coolmath Games. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  5. Editor (1 November 2019). "The Sites That Mean the Most to Us". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 22 November 2019.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  6. Jenkins, Abby (June 6, 2020). "Cool Math Games' shut down is a hoax". Arrow. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  7. Smith, Callum (2019-06-05). "Is Cool Math Games shutting down in 2020? Everything you need to know". HITC. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  8. Maria, Anna (June 10, 2020). "The 5 best Cool Math Games for kids to play in 2020". The Daily Dot. Retrieved July 6, 2020.


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