Fantastically fun math fact game!

I just came across this motivating math fact game online! It's basic fact practice (which is just what we need to continue to develop our "fact power"!), and the faster the students go, the more lights they acquire to decorate their house for the holidays. This will motivate students to not only solve the problems correctly, but quickly as well, which is so important as we begin memorizing our math facts! Click on the link below to visit the site. Have fun!

Holiday Math Fact Game

Math games

This week, we learned two new math games, Monster Squeeze and the Penny Dice Game. If you would like to practice these games at home, you can find Monster Squeeze in the games section of everydaymathonline.com. To play the Penny Dice game, place 20 pennies in a "bank" between the players. One partner rolls a die, and takes that number of pennies from the bank. Then, the other partner does the same. This continues until the bank is empty, however, the exact number or less needs to be rolled to take the final pennies from the bank. For example, if there are 4 pennies in the bank, and a partner rolls a 5, they may not take any pennies from the bank- they must roll a 4 or less. Once the bank is empty, the player with the most pennies wins!

Math games online!

Don't forget about our online component of Everyday Math! Your child can login to the website to play interactive games that are based on the games we've been learning in class. Today we spent some time in the computer lab practicing the Penny-Nickel-Dime exchange game. If you visit the games page, that particular game is listed in the category "Money Exchanges". If your student does not have the card I sent home early in the year with the login and password, please let me know, and I will give them another copy! They had a great time playing this game today, and it is a fabulous way to squeeze in a little extra math practice at home. Check out the link below to login (this link can also be found on my website, under "Links").

Everyday Math Online Games

Coin Dice game & Domino Top-it

This week in math, we've learned two new games that the students have enjoyed, and they are both great ways to reinforce the math concepts we've been working on.  The first is Coin-Dice, and it is based on the same concept as Penny-Nickel Exchange.  Players will need a bank of dimes, nickels, and pennies, and two dice.  Player 1 rolls both dice, and takes the number of pennies from the bank.  They can then make any exchanges possible to have the fewest number of coins.  Player 2 then rolls, takes the number of pennies they rolled, and makes exchanges for fewer coins.  When the bank is empty, the players count the value of their coins, and the player with the highest amount of money wins.

       

Today, we played Domino Top-it.  Domino Top-it follows the same rules as Top-it, or Coin Top-it, but using dominoes instead.  Each player has a stack of dominoes, face down in a stack.  (You can use the paper dominoes we cut out and brought home today, or you can use real dominoes).  Each player turns over the first domino and adds up the number of dots (total) on their dominoes.  The player with the highest number on his/her domino wins, and takes both dominoes.  This continues until one player has all of the dominoes/domino cards.  (Similar to the card game "War".)  

Playing these games would be a great way to keep those math skills strong over the long Thanksgiving break!  Enjoy!