Play with your kids! Here are some fun, quick and easy games that will help build number sense and mental math skills!

• Addition Pyramid

• Race to 500

• Make 10 Go Fish (Like traditional Go Fish, but instead of fishing for matches, you ask for the card that when combined with one in your hand makes 10. If you have a 7, you would ask for a 3. Count up the sets of tens when all of the cards in the deck are gone. The person with the most tens wins.)

• Trash Game:

• WAR (Highest card wins, lowest card wins, even card wins, odd card wins)

• Numbered Headbandz (Person one has a card facing out on their forehead. Their goal is to guess the number by asking someone else questions that can be answered with a yes or no. (Am I a two digit number? Am I odd or even? Am I greater than 20 but less than 30? etc.)

Flash Card Activities

• Choose 10 flash cards. For each one, use the commutative (order) property to write a related addition equation (4+6= 10 and 6+4=10) or multiplication equation (4 x 6= 24 and 6 x 4 = 24)

• Choose 10 flash cards. Order them from the highest sum (product) to the lowest sum (product).

• Choose 10 flash cards. Use each equation to write an addition/subtraction fact family or a multiplication/division fact family.

• Choose 5 flash cards. For each one, write a story problem to match the addition fact or multiplication fact.

Dominoes

• Sort the tiles based upon addition fact strategies (plus 0, plus 1, plus 2, Doubles, Doubles plus 1, Making 10)

• Games to play with dominoes: https://www.upperelementarysnapshots.com/2015/10/10-math-games-to-play-with-dominoes.html

www.gregtangmath.com/games (These are all free!)

• Ten-frame mania (one of my favorites!)

• How much How Many?

• NumTanga

• Math Limbo

• Kakooma

• Coin Bubble

www.mathplayground.com

This site has great games for all of the content areas in math!