Math Curious Blog
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Math Games with UNO Cards
UNO is one of our favorite games to play. Our kids keep on inventing new rules and cards to make the game more and more challenging. However, UNO cards are great for practicing mental math skills. When our kids were younger we invented a few math games using the colorful …
Math fitness 3
Today we would like to share with you some more outdoors (or indoors) active games that will encourage children to practice some basic math skills while hopping, running, and aiming. Most of us have played hopscotch as kids. How about using chalk to create some interesting active math games for …
STAR WARS – MATH MISSION
The MathCurious team members are serious Star Wars fans, and since today is May the Fourth, we would like to share a Star Wars-themed math game for some fantasy math practice. The story: Goal: Be the first player to get to the Ancient Holocron and win for your team. Material: …
Number Steps
Today we would like to share with you a fun activity we created (my little mathematicians and I) to challenge my youngest son with multiplication facts practice. We call them the Number Steps! This is a great activity to challenge your students with. I use this activity to challenge my …
Math Fitness 2
Today we would like to share with you some more outdoors (or indoors) active games that will encourage children to practice some basic math skills while hopping, running, and aiming. Most of us have played hopscotch as kids. How about using chalk to create some interesting active math games for …
Number Crosses (+google slides version)
A few days back I gave my students a few”numbers crosses” to solve as part of an escape room activity. I call them number crosses because instead of words you write numbers on the tiles and you describe those numbers in words. They work like puzzles and they can get …
Math fitness 1
Today we would like to share with you some outdoors (or indoors) active games that will encourage children to practice some basic math skills while hopping, running, and aiming. Most of us have played hopscotch as kids. How about using chalk to create some interesting active math games for children …
Down the Drain! A subtraction game. (virtual version included)
Ages 5+ Subtraction and addition “Down the drain” is a “last man standing” game. Goal: Don’t go down the drain! The game is for ages 5 and up and it can be played on two levels, Basic game, and Challenge. With the basic game, students will practice subtraction to 12, …
The Secret Number
The secret number is a two-player (or two groups) game that could also be played by teachers and students in their online meetings as a fun game. The teacher will be player one and the students will be the player two. Each of the players has a table in front …