How do you drill a 5-year-old? Fun is the only thing that seems to work happily in my homeschool. This clever game will have your children eagerly doing their math addition and subtraction facts. The game board looks like a swamp with alligators swimming nearby. Players move around the board by doing simple math problems to find out the number of spaces to move ahead. Named as one of the best educational games of the year because it is easy to play and it holds a child's attention well. The game includes a dash of luck, so children can actually beat Mom and Dad. For ages 5 and up, two to four players.
Here's an excellent math teaching tool that the children love. Practice your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts on 8 skill levels, keeping time on your performance so you can race to a better score. Lights and sounds give instant feedback. Adding games are included too, along with a full function calculator mode too. 2 AAA batteries required. For 6-10 years. For older children, choose the Math Shark. What a fun way to excel in math facts!
Muggins really helps you to think fast, do mathematical figuring in your head, and consider many possibilities—all great skills! A tactile delight with its 1" thick hardwood board with holes and grooves and its brightly colored glass marbles, this is a well-made, sturdy game—a good investment that will last long after all the cardboard games in their deflatable boxes have bit the dust. The object of the game is to get your marbles into a row before the other players do the same. Roll 3 dice and add, subtract, multiply, or divide the dice numbers. Then pop your marble into the hole that corresponds with your answer. Many answers are possible for each roll of the dice. Young children will like using the standard dice. A 12-sided die makes it even more challenging for older players. Because chance enters in with the roll of the dice, even the youngest player, not just the smartest, can be the winner. Recommended for ages 9-adult.
Bonus! Knock-Out Game on reverse side of the wooden board!
Roll the dice and name your price! Shop for everything from skateboards to ice cream cones. Take turns purchasing, adding up prices, and making change. The first player to fill his shopping cart wins. Kids roll three dice and determine how much they will spend or earn by the way they read the dice. If I throw a 2, 5, and 9, and if I am buying, I'll want to call that $2.59, the lowest possible price. But, if I am selling, I want to call it $9.52. This calls for some strategy skills. Unlike a lot of shopping games directed to girls in malls, this is a gender-free game where the accent is on the math. Includes game board, coins, bills, calculator, and lots of shopping fun. 1 "AA" battery required for calculator. 3 skill levels, 2 to 4 players, ages 5 to 9+.
I am sure that I am not the only one who has experienced having a teenage clerk stumble through trying to count back change. This is a needed skill, and one that children don't just absorb from daily dealings. This game was my daughter's favorite, but as I played it with her, I realized there is far more here than I bargained for. Presto Change-O will teach your children how to make change, how to count change back, how to be comfortable using the right coins and bills while making purchases, and how to figure out if they are given the right change back. Rather than just being a "luck" game, children get ahead by being able to handle their money well and make change accurately. Includes full-color playing board, play cash and coins, dice, and playing pieces. If you have an ample supply, using real money would make it even more educational. This is a fun, ingenious, educational game that I highly recommend! Ages 6 and up.
Kids beg to play Over and Out, a very easy and fun card game in which you add or subtract card numbers, trying to stay under the "tip top" card number, such as 33 or 55. Strategy cards add a twist to make this one very fun educational game! Ages 7 through adult, for 2 to 8 players.
Add a little zip to learning those math facts with these fun games. Addition Games features 4 different cardboard gameboards, each with a unique theme. The easiest game is with a car race for learning the sums of 5, 6, 7 and 8. Draw a card, identify the answer to discover what space to move to. Games increase in difficulty to sums of 20. Multiplication Games practices all the multiplications facts with 4 games of increasing difficulty. A fun way to drill those math facts! For two to four players. Ages 5 and up.
What makes this program so incredibly popular?! I wanted to find out, so I installed it on my computer and let my kids try it out. I could hear Ammon (then 7 yrs.) at the computer making racing car sounds with his mouth and getting quite excited. Why? Because he was beating his own previous scores at "multiplying by 9's"! Well, I was instantly sold! I haven't seen anything generate so much enthusiasm for mastering basic math!
The game is very simple: you race smoking dragster cars or beautiful wild horses by answering math problems. The game paces itself to your student's responses, and competing cars only race as fast as his own previous scores, so winning is really just improving day by day. This is a good one, and my children will work at their math on their own just for fun! Covers whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, integers, equations, estimation, plus math tricks. Cross Section gives you a sampling of all grades. Graded CD's go into greater depth on each subject. Requirements-PC: 384K min, Windows 98-Windows 7. Mac system 7.01 min, 8 MB Ram.
If you are using Saxon, this kit is essential. 450 objects and counting games for "hands-on" learning teach the concepts and make math much more interesting by providing concrete examples. Kit contains all you will need to teach Saxon math from kindergarten right up through the third grade. Includes a student clock, teddy bear counters, color tiles, dominoes, geoboard, 100 number chart, and much more (see list below). All neatly fits in the convenient storage container.
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Large 2-inch and 1 1/2-inch dice are fun to roll, quiet and spongy to handle. Operations signs for add, subtract, multiply and divide are marked on the dice surfaces. Numbers dice are large regular dice with dots for the numbers 1- to 6. Roll with some regular dice and do the problem, for one or two players. A fun way to do math practice! Includes 2 operator dice and 4 numbers dice.
