Game #1
(good for grade 2-3 students or use with 6 sided die for grade one students...but you would have to either black out the unused part of the addition table or create your own)
I am currently working with Rhys to memorize his math facts to 20 and we have found a really fun way to do it (and at the same time break him of the counting on habit which while I agree is useful in beginning to understand the concept of addition I think needs to be moved beyond to gain mastery of addition IYKWIM)...anyway to play the game you need 2 10 sided dice (you can also play it with 2 sets of 1-10 cards but playing with dice is way more fun!) I bought my dice on ebay but then I got impatient and went and bought a set of "place value dice" from Scholar's choice today. It has 2 sets each of 10 sided die from 0-9,00-90, 000-900 and 0000-9000...to play this addition game you need the first two die.
Then I printed off addition tables (completed not blank) from here and gave one to each player. I explained to Rhys that the 0 on the die for the purposes of our game will be 10.
The object of the game is to be the first person to complete a column row or one of the two diagonal lines in the addition table. You take turns rolling the two die and then triangulating the "fact" on the chart. So for example if you roll a 6 and a 9 you could either do 6 across and 9 down or vice versa. This is where the strategy comes in because you are trying to fill a column or row. I don't require Rhys to figure out the fact before he finds it on the chart because the act of finding it is how he is reviewing his facts (twice for every move on the board because he finds the location of both facts for each turn before deciding which move is better). I do have him say the facts out loud as he finds them (so 6 and 9 is 15, then 9 and 6 is 15) to help drill the facts as we play.
He picks which move is better and then x's off that sum from the chart. Then it is my turn. We play every night for 20 rolls each and then put the charts away and continue the game for the next night. If we roll a sum which we have already x'd both versions then we get to roll again.
Once he has the facts pretty well mastered we will move on to completing a blank addition chart like this one but I wanted to keep the game fun and fast so that he would find the review painless and even fun and I think starting with the completed chart keeps the game moving and encourages review WITHOUT having him count on to find the answer!
Game #2 (Kindergarten-grade 3 ish depending on how many die you are rolling)
Niamh got her nose out of joint because Rhys and I were playing the addition game for about 15 minutes a night and she really wanted to play a game too (we do play a family board game before bed most nights but she wanted one on one "learning" time like Rhys had)....so since I had purchased the place value die I decided we would work on our place value with a hundreds chart playing a very similar game to the addition game.
We are also reviewing the numbers in French as we go since Niamh is in French Immersion so math will be in French for the next few years. I printed off a hundreds chart from here to play with tomorrow but for tonight I just had her figure out the number and then write in out on a sheet (she has been reversing many of her numbers so this is good practice at writing the numbers without the insistence on perfect formation...as long as the number are written correctly she gets a high five). We are using one 0-9 die and one 00-90 die.
So we took turns rolling the die and then stated the number as "tens" and "units"....so rolling 20 and 6 would be 2 tens and 6 units....twenty and six....(at which point Niamh would yell out 26 regardless of whose "turn" it actually was LOL and then she would write out the number).
When we start playing with the hundreds chart we will cross off the correct number as we go and work towards getting a whole column or row just like in the addition game (then we might continue on to work towards 2 rows or a whole card like in bingo).
I am amazed at how much fun they are having with the dice and I would love to hear other people's math dice games!
Steph
(good for grade 2-3 students or use with 6 sided die for grade one students...but you would have to either black out the unused part of the addition table or create your own)
I am currently working with Rhys to memorize his math facts to 20 and we have found a really fun way to do it (and at the same time break him of the counting on habit which while I agree is useful in beginning to understand the concept of addition I think needs to be moved beyond to gain mastery of addition IYKWIM)...anyway to play the game you need 2 10 sided dice (you can also play it with 2 sets of 1-10 cards but playing with dice is way more fun!) I bought my dice on ebay but then I got impatient and went and bought a set of "place value dice" from Scholar's choice today. It has 2 sets each of 10 sided die from 0-9,00-90, 000-900 and 0000-9000...to play this addition game you need the first two die.
Then I printed off addition tables (completed not blank) from here and gave one to each player. I explained to Rhys that the 0 on the die for the purposes of our game will be 10.
The object of the game is to be the first person to complete a column row or one of the two diagonal lines in the addition table. You take turns rolling the two die and then triangulating the "fact" on the chart. So for example if you roll a 6 and a 9 you could either do 6 across and 9 down or vice versa. This is where the strategy comes in because you are trying to fill a column or row. I don't require Rhys to figure out the fact before he finds it on the chart because the act of finding it is how he is reviewing his facts (twice for every move on the board because he finds the location of both facts for each turn before deciding which move is better). I do have him say the facts out loud as he finds them (so 6 and 9 is 15, then 9 and 6 is 15) to help drill the facts as we play.
He picks which move is better and then x's off that sum from the chart. Then it is my turn. We play every night for 20 rolls each and then put the charts away and continue the game for the next night. If we roll a sum which we have already x'd both versions then we get to roll again.
Once he has the facts pretty well mastered we will move on to completing a blank addition chart like this one but I wanted to keep the game fun and fast so that he would find the review painless and even fun and I think starting with the completed chart keeps the game moving and encourages review WITHOUT having him count on to find the answer!
Game #2 (Kindergarten-grade 3 ish depending on how many die you are rolling)
Niamh got her nose out of joint because Rhys and I were playing the addition game for about 15 minutes a night and she really wanted to play a game too (we do play a family board game before bed most nights but she wanted one on one "learning" time like Rhys had)....so since I had purchased the place value die I decided we would work on our place value with a hundreds chart playing a very similar game to the addition game.
We are also reviewing the numbers in French as we go since Niamh is in French Immersion so math will be in French for the next few years. I printed off a hundreds chart from here to play with tomorrow but for tonight I just had her figure out the number and then write in out on a sheet (she has been reversing many of her numbers so this is good practice at writing the numbers without the insistence on perfect formation...as long as the number are written correctly she gets a high five). We are using one 0-9 die and one 00-90 die.
So we took turns rolling the die and then stated the number as "tens" and "units"....so rolling 20 and 6 would be 2 tens and 6 units....twenty and six....(at which point Niamh would yell out 26 regardless of whose "turn" it actually was LOL and then she would write out the number).
When we start playing with the hundreds chart we will cross off the correct number as we go and work towards getting a whole column or row just like in the addition game (then we might continue on to work towards 2 rows or a whole card like in bingo).
I am amazed at how much fun they are having with the dice and I would love to hear other people's math dice games!
Steph
