Multiplication is a new skill for third grade math students, but it builds on concepts they’ve mastered in earlier grades. This card game helps them make the connections. Each player flips two cards, then draws a grid and makes dots where the lines join. They count the dots, and the person with the most keeps all the cards.
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This online board game has you thinking ahead where you may want to land (on a square number) while avoiding landing on a prime number. Give it a try and play with someone or against yourself.
From: Deceptively Educational
How to Play
Math card games aren’t just for little kids; even adults will find this one a bit tricky. Each player is dealt four cards, then uses the order-of-operations rules to try to make a number as close to 24 as possible. Simple but challenging!
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From: We Are Teachers
Draw a giant clock without the hands. Decide on some times and have the kids be the hands of the clock. Idea from: Who would have thought it
From: Shelley Gray Teaching
Choose a player to go first. That player throws a die and scores as many points as the total shown on the die providing the die doesn’t roll a 1. The player may stop and take the points at any time or risk another roll. The player may continue rolling and accumulating points (but risk rolling a 1) or end his turn.
If the player rolls a 1 his turn is over, he loses all points he accumulated that turn, and he passes the die to the next player.
Play passes from player to player until a winner is determined. First person to accumulate 100 or more points wins the game.
Two-Dice Pig
The Two-Dice version is the same as Pig, except two standard dice are rolled. If neither shows a 1, their sum is added to the turn total. If a single 1 is rolled, the player scores nothing and the turn ends. If two ones are rolled, the player’s entire score is lost and their turn ends.
Big Pig
This variant is the same as Two-Dice Pig, except rolling double ones ends the player’s turn, scores 25 points, and eliminates any other points the player may have accumulated that turn. If any other doubles are rolled, the player adds twice the value of the dice to the turn total.
Play this math card game alone or as a team. Lay out 20 cards on the table (leave out face cards or change them to equal 0, while aces equal 1). Kids remove sets of cards that add up to 10, ultimately trying to remove all the cards from the table. It’s harder than you think!
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From: We Are Teachers
This looks like a fun card game from Shelley Gray called Target Number. Click on target number link for directions. Quick synopsis, you flip a card that is the target number and then deal out 3 cards to each person. With your 3 cards you add, multiply, subtract and/or divide to reach the target number.
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