Solridge

Solridge is an educational game aligned with third-grade Common Core competencies. You help townsfolk solve problems to earn gold and grow stronger, continuing to gather gold to save the village from disaster. The townsfolk’s questions take the form of word problems that present classroom learning in real-world contexts.

Skills and concepts

The game covers these math and language arts concepts:

• Finding the perimeter and area of two-dimensional figures
• Solving three-digit addition and subtraction problems
• Solving multiplication and division problems within 100
• Dividing quantities into equal parts and naming those parts as fractions
• Recounting details from a text
• Identifying where, when, why and how key events occur
• Determining the meaning of words and phrases
• Describing characters in a story
• Practising present, past and future tenses
• Subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement
• Comparatives and superlatives
• Capitalizing words in titles
• Possessive nouns
• Commas and quotation marks in dialogue