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Follow the link to play a "make ten" math game using an egg carton, dice and some dried beans.
The object is to see who can lose all of their bricks first. Each person builds a tower of lego bricks using ___ amount of bricks (probably 10 to start and increasing to 20 as confidence builds). Take turns rolling a die and taking off that many bricks, emphasizing saying the equation or using math language. Ex: I had 10 bricks, I took off 3, now I have 7 bricks left. Keep taking turns rolling the die and taking bricks off.
**An extension is to write the subtraction sentence each turn.**
Exercise math:
Exercise math:
Materials: Just yourself!
Directions: Choose different exercises and do a certain number of each of them. Add how many exercises you did all together!
Examples:
Exercise Math Adding Within 10
Do 5 jumping jacks.Do 3 push ups.How many exercises did you do all together?Make up your own exercise math to add within 10.
Exercise Math Teen Numbers
Do 10 sit upsDo 6 high kneesHow many exercises did you do all together?Make up your own teen exercise math. Start with 10 exercises then add some ones! How many all together?
Subtraction Bowling
Subtraction Bowling
Using 10 objects at home, set up a bowling alley. Take turns rolling a ball and seeing how many pins you can knock over each turn. Emphasize saying the equation or using math language. EX: There were 10 bottles, I knocked down 5. There are 5 bottles left.
You can use bottles, cups, toilet paper rolls, or any object you can knock over by rolling a ball.
Loose Tooth Subtraction
Loose Tooth Subtraction
Each person chooses one of the pictures of a child with 10 teeth (or draw your own!). Take turns rolling a die to see how many teeth they "lose". Black out (or color in) that many teeth and say/write the subtraction sentence.
*Once you lose all your teeth, you could roll the die to see how many "grow" back in and practice saying/writing an addition sentence.*
Loose_Tooth_Subtraction_Activity.pdf
Outdoor Counting Fun
Outdoor Counting Fun
With chalk draw squares on the pavement or sidewalk and write a number in each square You don't have to start at one! This would be a great activity to practice teen numbers too. Once your number path is drawn, find that many objects in nature and put in the corresponding square. For example, I have one pinecone in the box with a number one. There are four dandelions in the square with the number four. This activity reinforces counting, one-to-one correspondence, number recognition and finding collections.
Tiny Polka Dot Card Games
Tiny Polka Dot Card Games
This is a really great resource that can be used in a lot of ways to build math knowledge. You can print the cards at home, or make your own!
There are also instructions on how to use the different card sets to play different games.
**You can also order them on Amazon for $15 if you enjoy them and want to have them for the future. **
Tiny Dot Cards & Instructions.pdfMake 10 Go Fish
Make 10 Go Fish
This can be played just like regular Go Fish, except instead of trying to match 2 of the same numbers, you are trying to make 10. Try to ask for a card on your turn in a mathematical way that helps explain your thinking. For example: "Do you have an 8 to go with my 2 to make 10?".
Using a number range your child is comfortable with, start counting forward and instead of saying some of the numbers say "beep". Your child should guess the number you said beep on. It's like you skip the number. Both you and your child can take turn being the counter and the guesser.
For a greater challenge, try this game with higher number ranges or counting backwards!
**Click the title for a video introduction**
Start with 10 objects in the middle. You can take either 1 or 2 of the objects at a time on your turn. Alternate turns and try not to get stuck with the last object. While taking your turn, practice saying the number phrase. For example, if there are 10 beans and I take 2, I would say "10, 2 less is 8".
For more of a challenge, play with up to 20 objects.
**Click the title for a video instruction from Ms. Brin**
Top It
Top It
This is the card game war, but in school we call it top it. The goal is to "top" the other player's card.
Deal the entire deck into two piles. Both players take a pile and keep the pile face down. At the same time, both players turn over the top card of their stack. The player with the higher number takes both the cards and starts a "used card" stack. Continue this until you go through the stack you were dealt. Once you've gone through all of the cards in you stack, use the cards from your "used card" pile and repeat the process. You win the game by collect all of the cards.
If you both flip a card with the same value (eg., 5 and 5), place 3 cards face down. Flip a fourth one and whoever has the higher number gets all of the cards.
Values from lowest to highest: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A
Before beginning, remove the jacks, queens, and kings from the deck. Shuffle all of the cards and deal the entire deck into two piles.
Played similarly to regular top it, each player turns over the top two cards in their stack. Each player adds their two cards together. The player with the greatest sum gets all four of the cards and puts them in a "used card" stack. Continue playing until all the cards in the stack you were dealt have been used. Then repeat using the cards collected from the "used card" stack.
If both players have the same sum, each player turns over the next two cards in their stack and places the cards on top of their other ones. The player who has the greater sum wins all eight of the cards.
Guess My Number
Guess My Number
Think of a number from 1-20 (or higher number ranges when they're ready: 1-30, 1-50, 1-100). Let your child guess what it is, and tell them whether your number is more than their guess, or less than their guess. See how quickly they can guess your number. Then let them pick a number and you guess.
Hidden Pennies
(or any small object you have at home)Hidden Pennies
Put out 5-10 pennies and let your child count them. Then cover some of them up with your hands. Can they figure out how many you covered? Once they guess, you can reveal the pennies and count them together.
EX: Put out 8 pennies. Count them. Have your child close their eyes while you cover 3 with your hand. Your child can count the 5 that are still uncovered and then try to figure out how many you are hiding.
Paper Plate Math Facts
Paper Plate Math Facts
Using a paper plate, 6 clothes pins and a marker. you can have a fun way to practice your math facts. In the center of the plate write +2. Around the plate write the numbers 0-5. On the clothes pins write the sum of each math fact: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. To play have your child add the center number with a number on the edge of the plate. Choose the clothes pin with the correct sum and clip it to the plate. You can change this game up by choosing a different number for the center or turning it into a subtraction game.
Paper Plate Addition
Paper Plate Addition
Here's an easy way to practice composing numbers at home. You could use the paper plate or even just a flat space. You could use buttons or stuffed animals or anything small thing that allows for children to see two groups become one. If we were using this in the classroom I would set up the top (3 things on one side and 2 on the other, for example) and then have children slide them together, while narrating what's happening, onto the bottom to model addition (3 and 2 more make five) You can change this game up by doing subtraction instead.
This activity can be easily adapted to meet the needs of your child. You can do addition within 5, 10, even 20!
Write an addition sentence on a post-it note. Write the sums of those sentences on a piece of paper. Match the addition sentence to the sum.
Follow the link for 5 different games you can play using UNO cards.
The appropriate math apps from this site for kindergarten include: geoboards, number frames, and number racks.
DreamBox Learning is an online software provider that focuses on mathematics education. Please contact your child's teacher for login information.
Hopscotch
Hopscotch
Get outside and build your own hopscotch with chalk. Your child can practice number writing by writing the numbers themselves then play and practice reading the numbers as they jump on them!
This website offers fun math lessons ask children to notice and wonder, predict and adjust. We have done some of these, but a review is always fun! Start at the top (you may want to watch the video more than once) and allow your child to ask questions and really think/talk deeply about each step. The goal is to do lots of talking and wondering through the process.
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