Almost Unschooling Grama

  Have you ever awoke with the answer to a problem? I was trying to think of a fun way to help my grandson recognize different forms of numerals when I went to sleep the other night. When I woke up, I had a plan for this game. I am thinking I may have seen something similar online at some time, but here it is. I'm calling it Number Sense. To begin with, I made up an image to put on the back of my cards with Canva. Then, I put 6 of them on one page of a document on Word and printed them out on cardstock. After I cut them, I made a deck of cards with 5 different representations of each of the numbers between 1 and 12 using tally marks, dominoes, number words, Roman numerals, and Arabic numerals. The game is played like Rummy. Each player is dealt 7 cards. The object of the game is to be the first player to lay down all of the cards in their hand. In order to lay down cards, a player must have at least 3 of the cards representing the same numeral or add to a set that another player ha...

Here's a great game to teach math terminology. One person secretly picks a number. T he other has to ask questions using math terminology until they can determine the number. I printed out a free 100s chart and put it into a plastic sleeve. We use an erasable marker to mark off the numbers we have eliminated. You cannot ask if the number is "79" or "14" Questions must be worded with math terms such as "Is it a prime #?", "Is the product of the ones digit equal to 3 times 3?" Is the number greater than 47?" "Is this number divisible by 9?", "Is your number even or odd?" As you ask the questions, mark off any numbers your question has eliminated. The Flash and I are having a great time with this game. He's not multiplying or dividing yet so we aren't using some of these terms but that's OK the game is adjustable. I printed out the chart and put it into a plastic sleeve. We use an erasab...