Happy New Year! Hope
you all had a wonderful holiday season!
We have a little math game freebie that we’d love to share with you, but
first we thought we’d share about how we do math and incorporate math games into
our first grade classrooms.
Our school uses My Math, which is a pretty structured math
program. After our kiddos finish their
“On My Own” page, and we have looked it over, they have a list of things they
can chose from such as flash card practice or the math game of the week.
While kids are using flash cards, or playing the math game of the week, we are able work with kids who might need some extra support on their
While kids are using flash cards, or playing the math game of the week, we are able work with kids who might need some extra support on their
“On My Own” page.
Thursday, during the last half hour of the school day, is what
we call Math Review. During this time we
incorporate math journals using our math journal prompts. After math journals our kiddos can choose
shape/pattern blocks, counting cubes, math board games, math apps on the iPad,
or ixl on computers. While our kids are
at these math centers, we meet with students who have math work to finish from
the week. We also use this time to
assess math skills if needed.
And here's our freebie for you all! We’ll be using this next week as our math
game of the week.
It’s a game called “Who
has the number that is greater?” Or “Who
has the number that is less?”
We made
our game double sided so the players can decide if they want to focus
on who has more or who has less.
This is a two-player game.
Each pair will need one game board and 20-30 number cards. The players split the cards evenly and place
their cards face down in the labeled box.
Each player flips a card over.
Since this is the "less" side, the person with the number that is less (57) gets to keep both cards, and puts them in a separate pile. The game continues until all cards have been flipped over. Then, both players count their cards and whoever has the most is the winner.
Here is the back of the game board. If playing on this side, the player with the greater number (104) gets to keep both cards.
We've created two options for game boards and number cards 1-120.
If you'd like this game just click {HERE}!
Have a wonderful Friday!