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I'm sorry, I don't remember how old your kids are. A couple with wide appeal in our house are Zeus on the Loose, and Rat-a-Tat-Cat (this is more starry and probability than math skills)

 

I recently got Sumoku and like how it forces my people to think about multiples of the numbers 3, 4, and 5. But mostly 4!

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Family Math (Equals Series)  There are several books in the series, including a book for middle school math. If you want something really different, open and go, hitting lots of topics, this is it.

 

Games for Math: Playful Ways to Help Your Child Learn Math, From Kindergarten to Third Grade  I just started this with ds and am keen on it. It's on the younger side, and it's more about filling in holes, not so much practicing 4 digit addition or whatever.

 

Math Thinking Mats - Grade 1 (035398) Details - Rainbow Resource Center, Inc.  These come in grade leveled books, and they're a tremendous value at only $14. They're printed on stiff paper and take just a few minutes each to cut apart and prepare. I slide the board and pieces into a page protector and tape the instructions onto the front. They're ready to go, but I find them flexible to work on concepts a little bit differently too. They're straight forward enough I can hand them to my no prep workers. 

 

Ronit Bird - Specialist in Dyscalculia and Arithmetic Difficulties  Ronit Bird has several free ebooks, and some of the games would definitely appeal to all kinds of learners. I particularly like her Math Turnovers in her Math Games ebook. We play it with ante poker cards, which you can get inexpensively on ebay. Again, I like them because they're different, not just same old, same old.

 

There are a bunch of really great standard playing games that are terrific for math. You could probably find a long list by googling. These are some was have:

Go Nuts! The Completely Cracked Up Dice Game Action Game

CLUMSY THIEF - Adding to 100 Game This also has a sequel.

Zeus on the Loose  This was too hard for my ds when we got it, and we haven't tried it since. Guess we should. It hits your 2 digit mental math.

 

 

 

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Prime Climb is a fun game - you need to understand multiplication & division, factors & multiples (but don't have to have them memorized).

 

I second Prime Climb. Games are part of our math rotation and DS usually picks Prime Climb. He would even ask to play for fun. 

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