Flash cards work well for a homemade matching game. Create a set of answer cards to go with the flash cards. Students match the answer cards with the corresponding flash cards. You can also play this game like the classic Memory or Concentration game. The cards are turned upside-down, with the players taking turns flipping […]
Eat jelly beans and learn about math at the same time with this fun activity! Graphing is a skill that all elementary students are expected to know, and this is a fun way to practice! Click on the following link to download a copy of this activity https://www.dropbox.com/s/32gyrfig5y5j828/jellybean%20graph.pdf
One basic math skill that all children need to know is how to add two numbers together to make a total of 10. Try this game online to make learning this skill FUN. Your kids will be excited to practice their math facts as they shoot marbles at numbers. Truth is…I just spent about 10 minutes
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Keep dice in your mentoring bag and you will always have something to do with the child that you mentor! There are countless of activities that you can use dice for, but here is a link to one activity called ROLL, ADD & MOVE. With this activity, kids can practice their adding skills and get
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Here’s a fun way to practice math facts AND get out the wiggles that your child may have during the hour. Both you and the child that you mentor will make a fist with one hand and pound it in the palm of the other hand 2 times as you say “Jumping Jack”. On the
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Throw in a deck of cards to your mentoring bag and you have an easy way to review math facts. You may remember playing WAR with cards when you were a child. You can make this game more educational by following these suggestions after children are able to identify their numbers. Split the deck of
