Bring a seasonal twist to math practice with Bump!—a lively partner game that reinforces mental addition and subtraction skills.

Allison Behne shares the value of open-ended questions and what we can learn from them. 

Allison Behne is sharing a game she created that combines multiplication and telling time. Fun!

One game my students enjoy playing during our Daily Math is called "Number Roll and Write". This game is simple, yet it covers many different concepts.

Download this seasonal dice game that strengthens number sense while incorporating fun.

Allison Behne created this game to reinforce Operations and Algebraic thinking, multiplication, with her students. She recently shared the addition version with us called Sum It Up. This is the multiplication version.

Try this fun party game that is really just a cleverly disguised math activity.

Download this lively partner game that reinforces mental addition and subtraction skills.

Numbers with more than three digits are much easier to read with commas. This is a fun way to help kids know where to put them.

This activity provides practice finding the value of an unknown number.

This math fact game is easy to understand and is great for practicing independence.

John Van de Walle is just one of the many math experts who has taught us the power of number recognition. In this video, you will see a math game which involves children rolling a number die and placing a marker on the corresponding square that shows the dot representation of the number

In this video, you see a simple math game that is not only easy to set up, but can be expanded to fit all ages. 

The popular card game War has been revised a bit to support early number sense as well as counting and cardinality. 

Ready for two new ideas for math writing? Listen in!

Need a great game for developing number sense, fact fluency, and strategic thinking? Check out Canoga.

In this activity, students develop an understanding of fractions as numbers.

Playing with dice makes it more fun to make and learn about fractions. 

Math games provide a wonderful opportunity to assess students. 

This simple gameboard provides the backdrop for a variety of fact and number games that cover many different concepts for a range of ages and abilities.

Last week, Allison shared a favorite game of her students. As we were reviewing our video vault, we discovered we had a video of students in Joan's class playing a similar game.

A number game using a sand timer.

In this video you will see Nadia and Janice working with dominoes as a math tool. Dominoes are great for pattern recognition and developing fact fluency.

Watch and learn how to play this strategy game that is great for kindergarten students to master!

This video shows Joan's students playing a simple game to practice subtraction.

This video shows a simple to make and simple to teach math game that focuses on the basic math facts.

Nine Holes (also known as Tapatan) is a strategy game, similar to Tic Tac Toe.

This math activity provides practice determining if the number of objects in a group is odd or even.

This fourth-grade activity supports Operations and Algebraic Thinking but can easily be adapted to older and younger students.  

This math activity provides practice subtracting multiples of 10 from multiples of 10.

Understanding ratios and ratio reasoning is an advanced mathematical domain found in the sixth grade.

This activity provides practice in counting money by identifying coins and adding the total amount.

This math activity provides practice in understanding and writing fractions.

In this video a number generator is used with students who are working to develop basic fact power. You may already have this tool in your cupboard.

Watch how to play the math game, Plus of Minus, which is a great game for beginning numbers sense, addition, and substraction skills.

Students create and solve problems designed around math concepts being studied.

In this activity, students classify numbers as rational or irrational.

Students apply knowledge of place value by building numbers using standard and expanded form.

Students build fluency and automaticity of basic facts.

This math activity provides practice in measuring the distance around the outside of a figure.

This activity provides practice writing solutions in slope-intercept form and plotting possible solutions on a coordinate plane.

Students use apply knowledge of using an area model to solve multiplication and/or division problems.

Give your students hands-on practice composing and calculating the area of rectilinear figures created entirely from rectangles.

Students us Piet Mondrian's rectangular drawing approach to build and calculate an area comprised of smaller colorful components.  Individual or partner activity. 

With just a few tools, students will be engaged adding and subtracting decimals. 

Students use Piet Mondrian's rectangular drawing approach to build and calculate an area comprised of smaller colorful components.  Individual or partner activity. 

Similar to the card game War, this game uses manipulatives as concrete objects to help young learners compare numbers. 

Students use a self-selected strategy to find the value of the unknown number.

This math activity provides practice in telling time and writing time in hours and half hours using analog and digital clocks.