Math games?

[twoxcell]

My ds just finished Horizons math 1 today, and we will be starting Horizons 2 in July. I want to work on cementing his math facts for the next month using games or hands on math. Does anyone have any good math game ideas for an almost 7 year old, and a 4.5 year old who is doing K math. TIA

 

Also if you Use Horizons what if anything do you use to supplement it with.

[bry's-gal]

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[NanceXToo]

There's a math operations game called Totally Tut (board game) that my daughter enjoys.

[Teachin'Mine]

Play lots of games - anything that requires a score - and let them be the scorekeepers. It's great practice for adding and subtracting. :) Games which need someone in charge of the money are also good - Monopoly Jr. and Life Jr., and let them take turns being the banker.

[snickelfritz]

We're doing the same thing for the summer. We're using:

 

Sum Swamp is a fun board game where they throw 2 dice with numbers and another dice with subtraction/addition symbols to find out how they move.

 

Quarter-Mile Math--computer game

 

We've played this card game that, I think, came out of the Singapore Teachers guide. Take a deck of cards and take out queens/kings/etc... Aces are ones. Each person is dealt a hand of cards and a personal draw pile. A center draw pile has one card up. You have to get 2 cards that add or subtract to equal the card in the middle to be able to pick up that card. If you do that, you lay the hand down in your "taken" stack and the center draw pile has a new card turned over. If you can't go, you draw from your personal draw pile and the next person goes. Keep going and see who can get the most hands.

[Rivka]

Remember the card game War? We play Addition War: each player puts down two cards, and the one with the higher sum takes all four cards. For Subtraction War, each player puts down two cards and subtracts the smaller from the larger. It's best to play these with the face cards removed.

[scrapbabe]

Giggle Facts. I just purchased this for my 5 year old and I'm really impressed with the quality. Lots of games for the price ranging from k-3.

http://www.gigglelearn.com/

 

Smiles,

Shalynn

[Violet Crown]

Junior Mastermind. Introduces some of the kind of thinking that will be needed later, but doesn't involve arithmetic.

 

Anno's Math Games, I, II, and III. "Games" in a less standard sense, but still math games. Also Anno's Hat Tricks.

[Erica in OR]

There's some good stuff in Peggy Kaye's Games for Math. We've enjoyed those to help review concepts and take a break from regular lessons.

 

Erica in OR

[EppieJ]

We had a good time with Funtasic Frogs at around the age of your dc. Good for working out problems, counting, patterning.... Amazon has a couple of different wkbks.