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Math games provide a fun, engaging way to develop and practice math skills! Spending even 5 minutes a day playing a math game with your child can help them to become more efficient as they are working with numbers.
There are three key elements to consider when you are playing games, to ensure that your child experiences progress
Timing: Games should not be played for too long or you child will become bored. This should be a fun experience that allows your child to develop a positive mindset around mathemetics!
Strategy: Your child should be working on either strengthening a strategy they are currently using, or moving towards the next strategy found on the continuum.
Feedback: Providing your child with feedback as they play games is the key to moving them forward! By asking them questions like "how did you know that 7 and 3 make 10" or prompting them to more efficient strategies (if they counted their fingers from 1 to 10 you could ask if they could count on from either 7 or 3 to find the sum). Feedback is often effective when it is formed as a question, which encourages children to think about their thinking rather than act on an instruction.
Check out www.lkelemproblogspot.com for a variety of games (located under activites, on the bottom right side of the screen) that align with the strategies shared on this site. Many games are available in both French and English.
Additional games that can be played at home can be found through the Guide to Effective Instruction, a handbook organized into seperate publications based on math strands and divisions (Primary, Junior and Intermediate). To explore the Guides visit the EduGains website. Some games can be found by visiting the following link and exploring the subpages; GEIM Games. As well, your child's Summer Learning Program will be playing games each day that you can also play with them. These games will specifically focus on developing efficientcy using familiar facts, doubling and decomposing.
Family board games are an excellent way to support your children in developing their math skills in a fun, interactive way! Aside from the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division strategies your children can practice, games allow them to strengthen problem solving skills.
Board Games allow children at various developmental stages the opportunity to practice and develop strategies to support number sense while playing collaboratively!
When playing Monopoly children begin subitizing as they quickly identify the number shown on the die that are rolled. They may also recognize that the number of spaces on one side of the board is 10, and subitize the distance they need to move using this information.
When adding up the numbers shown on the dice children may subitize, count "all" of the pips, count on from one of the numbers shown or use known facts.
When moving on the board, are they counting spaces one by one, skip counting or using the benchmark of 10?
These strategies will emerge again as children are totalling the money in their bank account!
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