family math

Math + At the breakfast table = FUN.

Here's a quick little game that kids of all ages can have fun with.



You need:
pencils
scrap paper
deck of cards (just one of each Ace - #9)

First, each person draws three boxes on their piece of paper.

Then someone draws a card from the nine cards.  (Ace is one, of course.)  This is a great job for your pre-writer...Diego drew some of the cards, and then had to try and recognize the number and call it out.

Make sure to replace the card into your pile each time...it doesn't matter if a number is repeated.

Everyone chooses one of their three boxes to place that number in.   No erasing or changing later!

Repeat three times.

After that, each person reads the number they have on their paper...the person with the highest number wins!

So for example, say an Ace, Nine and Seven are drawn.

You could have
197
179
791
719
917
971  (this one wins!)

We quickly decided three numbers was too easy for us and added one more box.  We kept adding a box each time we played, making it more challenging, until we got to the millions.

I found this game in the wonderful math book Family Math!