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Making Math More Fun ActivityMaking Math More Fun Activity
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Making Math More Fun
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Making Math More Fun

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Address fundamental math skills with a series of fun math board games. With 25 games that focus on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, and percentages, kids will quickly find that math practice is their favorite time of the day!

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

shapes, counting to 100, addition, subtraction, division, odd numbers, even numbers, place value, multiplication, fractions, percents, math puzzles, board games

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Laminate game boards and rotate learners between centers
  • Have kids design their own math-centered board game in partners or groups
  • Create game sets that kids can take home and practice with their parents 

Classroom Considerations

  • Most game boards will need to be printed in color

Pros

  • Encourages kids to practice math skills creatively
  • Comes with all necessary parts to each game

Cons

  • None

Common Core

2.NBT.A.1.a 2.NBT.A.2 2.NBT.A.3 2.NBT.A.4 2.NBT.B.5 2.NBT.B.6 2.NBT.B.7 2.NBT.B.8 2.NBT.B.9

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