MATH GAMES FOR ADULT AND CHILD

MATH GAMES (Concrete & Digital)
FOR ADULT AND CHILD (Ages 2 - 7)

Abstract
At an AMTNJ meeting 40 years ago, my 6-year-old and I presented our math games. A man in the audience requested I write a book. Written by 1985, posted free and downloadable on the net by 1993, digital in the early 2000s, today we use both concrete and digital versions.
Sample/play representation & counting games, including the 100s board for group bingo and computation; travel games; card games like "Beat the 10s," "Done," and "For 2, 3, or 4;" board and geometry games (including "Find the Circle," and "I Want You to Draw"). Other concrete and digital manipulatives for fraction, decimal, whole, and integer computation will be mentioned and we'll end singing. Come play! pdf of this "talk"

Digital Manipulatives

video

(do now) Lab 1 - Sheet 1 - Select, Copy, Paste
(skip now) Lab 2 - Term Tiles & hyrogliphics
(maybe later) Lab 3 - multiple strips, nomograph,
thirds & sixths & ninths
(in detail, below) Lab 4 - The Hundreds Board - place, slide, add, subtract, multiply, divide, play "group bingo,"
write questions & a bingo game
(maybe later) Lab 5 - calculi, why we have the coins we have

The Hundreds Board

The Book, an Intro,
the DIGITAL MANIPULATIVE of the 100s Board.
Just the Boards:: traditional 100s board; 0 to 99 board (0 on left); negative-positve board (0 on right); negative-positve board (0 on left)

Computation,

Play Group Bingo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

"group bingo 3a", "group bingo 3b", "group bingo 3c"

group01.gif , group02.gif

Have Teachers OR STUDENTS Write Bingo, Practice Sheets

Using colored multiples of the 2s - 6s

Using 100s.gsp or coins.xls

Using Geometer's Sketchpad

Free Geometer's Sketchpad! http://www.keypress.com/gsp/download

Card Games

"Game for Two, Three, or Four" -- A rummy card game for first or second graders provides work with different number families, addition, and subtraction.
(now, with cards) SUMTHING ELSE -- "Concentration" 2 versions - just match the number and number family of 5s or 6s or ...
BEAT THE TENS -- solitaire reinforcing pairs totaling 10
FOR 2, 3, OR 4 and DONE -- rummy, number families, players set the game end,
(now, with cards) Done is tough because a player may hold many cards looking for a pair totaling 10 to discard