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When was the last time that your child thought that math was cool? Often math can be a source of struggle for children, but it doesn’t have to be! Using this list of the coolest math games is a quick and easy way to get your child excited about math!
Because a child’s brain is still developing, it can be challenging to ask them to sit down and learn conventionally. As adults, we understand that if we sit and read something for 20-30 minutes that we may have an increased understanding of the information when complete.
As adults, we also know that after sitting for 30 minutes, our butts and brains are tired.
Hands-on learning and games help our children engage and understand. Kids like to get up and move around. They love to interact with their surroundings. They want to ask questions.
Through the use of the coolest math games, your child will have a deeper understanding than just using a piece of paper.
When you use hands-on learning approaches, you can grab things that excite your child (like unicorns or construction trucks), you can fine-tune the activities to help them feel successful, and you can help build a positive relationship with math.
If you have been out of school for any length of time, you know that it can be hard to remember what you learned in specific grades.
Common Core provides a road map of exactly what students should be learning in each grade. These standards will help you determine if the practice your child is doing will benefit them.
If you are reading this and thinking, “I have to consult standards, create practice, teach, and more!?” rest assured, you’re not alone. Because we’re all busy, it can be daunting to think that you might have to create an at-home math curriculum.
Instead of doing the extra work, why not pick up an award-winning practice workbook that has done all of the heavy lifting for you?
ArgoPrep has worked tirelessly with the teachers to create practice workbooks that are Common Core-aligned.
ArgoPrep’s workbooks include sample problems, practice questions, problem explanations, and more, all contained in a simple and easy to use workbook and online platform!
Of course, math is dynamic and is most effective when children can learn the information in different ways.
This means that while the practice is terrific, hands-on play will allow children to understand the information more deeply.
That is why we have compiled a list of 10 of the coolest math games. These games and activities are guaranteed to engage your child and help them understand math more clearly.
Often math can get a reputation as a drill skill. This means that instead of fun, hands-on learning, math can be a lot of worksheets with repetition. Of course, learning and memorizing math facts is a part of math instruction; it is most important to focus on skill development. Prediction skills, critical, and logical thinking are key to encouraging children to develop in school.
Yes, knowing multiplication tables will help children during assessments, but you also want to build life skills. This means that when you play math games with your child, they are having to critically think on their feet, pull out the right skills, and apply them on the fly.
Cool math games can encourage children to get excited about practicing their skills. Of course, many online resources teach children math skills, but hands-on practice and games will reinforce knowledge as well.
These cool math games will get you and your child talking, playing, and learning. The best part? Within minutes of setting up, children can play these games with supplies you already have at home!
Kids can be at risk of losing information during long breaks such as summer (or ahem, pandemics). By introducing new, fun games a few times a week, you will be giving your child a chance to flex their thinking muscles.
Create simple addition and subtraction equations, and then remove parts of the problem, so that your child has to fill in the information to complete the equation correctly. You could remove the operation (addition and subtraction signs), the answer, even the equal sign or numbers in the problem can be deleted.
Next, with the numbers and operations that you removed, create post-it notes with an answer on individual post-its. Your child will use these post-its to make the equations true.
Pattern practice helps children with prediction skills, logical thinking, and sequencing. While this may seem simple to an adult, these are the building blocks to helping them understand more complex math skills later down the road.
With a deck of cards (with face cards removed), challenge your child to convert cards from centimeters to millimeters. This game will require your child to process through multiplication quickly!
With the deck face down on a table, flip the top card over, the first person to convert the number to its millimeter sum wins! For example, if you flip over a four, the conversion would be as follows: 4 x 10 = 40 millimeters.
With 2-3 players, a piece of graph paper, and a colored pencil per player, your child will be a master at graphing perimeter after this easy and fun game! Take turns rolling two dice, with the numbers that were thrown.
Each player must draw a square or rectangle to represent the perimeter of their dice. Write the area in the middle of the shape. The game ends when there is no more space to draw, but the winner is determined by who has the most surface area coverage!
For this game, you will need one dice. You can play head-to-head or as partners. The goal of the game is to reach 101. With each roll, you can choose to use your dice numbers like a one or a 10 (for example, if you roll a five, you can count it as 5 or 50). The goal is to reach 101 without going over. They must add as they go to make sure they don’t go over their max. Play against each other for an added element of competition!
This game will challenge your children to become masters at mental math!
This quasi-Solitare/Sodoku card game will have kids scratching their heads as they try to beat the game!
Have students pick 25 cards out of a deck. Next, they must arrange the cards in a 5×5 square. Finally, the students must rearrange the cards to try and get all rows (up and down plus side-to-side) to equal 31. Face cards are worth 10, and Aces are worth 1.
A spin on the classic game Taboo, use vocabulary words that your child is currently learning in math. Write a word on each card, and then have the child describe the word without actually using the term. For an added challenge, include synonyms on the card and watch your child describe complex algebraic terms without the aid of any support words!
With the use of these cool math games and the help of ArgoPrep, your child is sure to make strides in their understanding. If you are looking to help your child with understanding math, consider compiling some simple supplies and supporting your child with these cool math games!
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