Family Fun: Math Games
Games to Help Reinforce Math Skills
Shorter Days and Colder Weather = Inside Games!
There are many benefits to using games to teach math:
1.Games are fun to play and allow for family engagement.
2. Games allow children to make connections between learning concepts and understanding how they are applies in the real world.
3. Games provide motivation for mastery.
Clumsy Theif
Clumsy thieves may be lurking in your own home. This hilarious fast-paced card game has everyone snatching money- when they dare! Big money's up for grabs and every player joins the fun. This game requires strategy, addition skills, luck and a great sense of humor. HOW TO PLAY: Players make money stacks from their dealt cards. Steal a stack if you have a card equal to $100 when added to the top card of a stack. But that's just the beginning! Thief cards steal money cards. Jail cards stop their cards. In the end the play who had the most money wins.
Sequence Numbers
Test your math skills in this number version of SEQUENCE. The cards have the equations and the game board has the answers. Each card has an addition or subtraction equation. Match a card to it's correct answer on the board, then place your chip there. Groups of numbers are color-coded to help with number recognition. When you have five or your chips in a row, you've got a SEQUENCE! Learning math is fun when you play by the numbers.... SEQUENCE NUMBERS!
Sums in Space
Deep in space, your team is on the hunt for the shiniest space crystals around. All of a sudden, a black hole has formed on the horizon and is breaking apart the planet. It's time to use your math skills to escape this planet and head back home.
Use the dice to improve your math skills by adding and subtracting 0-9 and get back to the ship as fast as you can.
Rummikub
Rummikub is a 2-4 player classic game that combines Rummy with Mahjong and has lots of tiles to play with and sort. While Rummikub is also about color/ number matching, it is also a game of strategy and skill. With 106 tiles available, the number of combinations can stretch into the millions! To win, you must be the first player to eliminate all of the titles from your rack. It is recommended for players seven and up!
Hi- Ho Cherry-O
The game of Hi-Ho Cherry-O consists of 2-4 players trying to accumulate 10 cherries (or some other fruit). Each turn consists of a player spinning a spinner to see how many cherries are obtained. Where's the math? Your early math learner will learn to count the number of cherries they are allowed to pick from the tree and ADD to their collection or SUBTRACT from their stash because they have landed on the image of a hungry dog or bird, or that of a spilled bucket of cherries!
Addition, Subtraction and Counting Skills
- Candy Land
- Connect Four
- Sorry
- Skip O
- War
- Uno
- Trouble
Patterns, Attributes, Shapes and Geometry
- Crazy Eights
- Guess Who?
- Tanagrams
- Jigsaw Puzzles
Strategy, Reasoning, and Spatial Perception
- Monopoly
- The Game of Life
- Yahtzee
- Clue
- Memory
- Battleship
Title I Math Support Teachers
Ms. Joyce DeVol: jdevol@ojrsd.com
Mrs. Rachel Lemuell: rlemuell@ojrsd.comEmail: jdevol@ojrsd.com
Website: https://www.ojrsd.com/domain/796
Location: 475 Kemp Road, Pottstown, PA, USA
Phone: 610-469-5105