Math Games ~ K to 3rd Grade

The Math Program we use is Math-U-See and I LOVE this program because it is no nonsense program. It is clean and clear and the concepts build easily on one another making it easy to learn the next thing. Many people do not like this program, they think it is not "enough" or boring but I honestly love that I am not wasting time doing never ending drill sheets. It is one sheet a day, and your done. THIS leave us with time to do books like Life of Fred or games and activities to better connect math to our real life! 

Above- Aaron and Ethan are doing an activity, where they roll a 6 or 9 sided dice, (just depends on what multiplication tables they have learned Ethan has learned them all, but Aaron has not yet so Ethan helps with with the ones he does not know). Then they roll it again. The numbers they roll are side 1 and side 2 of a building. They are to draw the building and then find the area. They are working to gather to make a city "map" It was super fun to listen to them talk and have fun together, they put our house, Lowe's, Walmart, and of course the Lego store!

This game was an estimation game, they have different bins of items, they were to close there eyes, grab some and estimate how many of that item they had. Then count and chart their estimation with the actual result.

This is a little Lego game board I got off Pinterest, we use it all the time to practice adding or whatever it is very useful.

This game (and the estimation game) I got from THIS book called Family Math. We have only done a few games out of it so far, but I really love the book and I have the book all tabbed up with plans to do more games. This game  each person has a number line 1-9 then you roll the dice, for example I rolled an 9 then you want to cover you number line with any numbers that add up to nine, or just cover the 9. The goal to fill  your line up first, if you can't cover your line because the numbers are covered your turn is over.

This game is called Fill the Cup, another great Pinterest Idea find. We used jars instead of cups because we have a lot of jars around here. So you roll the dice, then add that many to your jar. We keep track on the white board. Then the other person rolls, and records there number then you roll and add that to your last roll, keeping a record of each turn adding more and more each time until the jar is full whom ever fills it first wins. Now this was a preschool game but I added the keeping track so Ryan could practice his addition.

Well those are all the games I remembered to take pictures of until next time- happy math day!