Fact Family Games and Activities
If you’re a primary teacher, you have probably taught your students about fact families. These not only help with fact fluency, but they give students the strategies they will need to help make adding and subtracting larger numbers easier. If you’re looking to make this time a little more fun and meaningful for your students, check out these fact family games and activities.
Fun Ways to Practice Multiplication
Multiplication facts are an important building block for so many math skills, but many students struggle to learn their facts. How can we help? We can teach them vocabulary and strategies, but we also need to make time for hands-on learning and games. Here are some fun ways to practice multiplication.
Coin Toss Game
Do your students need more practice with counting coin combinations? Try a game! This coin toss game is easy to set up and your students will have fun while learning.
Counting Coins Games and Activities
Learning to count coins doesn’t have to be boring! Here are some fun ways to practice counting coins.
Fun Ways to Practice Doubles
When students have a solid understanding of their doubles facts, it enables them to work on other mental math strategies. In order to do this, kids need many opportunities to practice these math facts. Here are some fun ways to practice doubles.
Making Ten Games and Activities
Making ten is a key building block that helps students mentally add bigger numbers as they get older. So how can we make sure kids know all of their tens partners or ways to make 10? We practice! Here are some of my favorite games and activities for making ten.
Hundreds Chart Activities
Hundreds charts are a valuable tool for helping kids master counting skills, developing number sense, recognizing patterns, and more. Here are some of my favorite hundreds chart activities and games to try in the classroom or at home.
Dominoes Activities
Looking for a way to get students to use dominoes in an engaging and meaningful way? These independent dominoes activities help students practice addition and subtraction, odd and even numbers, ordering numbers, and more!
Math Dice Games
Kids love to play dice games, but some teachers shy away from them due to management issues and lack of time. When you combine dice games your students can play independently AND practice math skills at the same time, it’s a win-win situation for the classroom. I want to share my favorite math dice games that your students can play in the classroom or from home.
Dice and Card Games Your Kids Will Love
One of our favorite things to do as a family is play games. Playing games is not only fun, but games can be educational, too. Kids can work on math skills, strategic thinking, taking turns, sportsmanship, and more! Here are some of our family’s favorite dice and card games that I think your kids will love! Who knows, you might even find a new favorite for the classroom, too.
5 Reasons to Play Math Games
I think we can all agree that kids love to play math games. I love to build upon their love of games by incorporating game time into my math block as often as possible. Playing math games is not only fun, but these games can also provide so many benefits. Here are 5 reasons to play math games in the classroom.
Math Games for Doubles, Doubles +1 and Doubles +2
Looking for a fun way to practice doubles facts? Take a look at these games! Students will get the practice they need while having fun.