The game | The math |
Race to 100 | Coin values, place value, number sense |
Four in a row | Multiplication, factors, strategy |
Winning touch | Multiplication, factors |
Tens Go-Fish | Decompositions of 10 |
The Elevator Game | Addition and subtraction within 18 |
Fraction Boats | Hands on fractions (equivalent fractions and addition of fractions are hidden in the game--but you don't need to know anything about fractions to play the game) |
Games that are really about probability | Addition, and good intuition building for probability |
Yard Sale | Money, addition, subtraction |
Shut the Box | Decomposing numbers to 12 |
Close to 20 | Addition and subtraction |
War | Lots of versions--addition, subtraction, multiplication, comparing fractions... |
Memory | Addition |
Snap | Addition |
Bingo | Lots of versions--addition, subtraction, multiplication |
The Product Game | Multiplication and (to a lesser extent) factoring |
Bump | Multiplication with a single multiplicand |
Fraction Race | Equivalent fractions and adding fractions (very hands on, but fraction knowledge is helpful) |
Pizza Delivery | Reading and understanding the comparitive language of word problems: ___ more than, ___ less than, ___ times as many as (both whole number and fraction versions). Can be played with only the additive and subtractive comparisons. |