We love to make math practice fun with games like Nerf Gun Math and Subtraction Squish.

If you’re looking for ways to make learning math more fun, check out these fun math games.

Games for kids can make learning more enjoyable for everyone involved.  

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Fun Math Games

While I like coming up with hands-on ways to practice math skills at home, sometimes it’s nice to have an activity your child can do without all the prep work.

From math board games and other games,  your child can have fun practicing math anytime and anywhere with these ideas.

Monkey Math — (ages 4-7) This fun math game is perfect for kids who are just learning addition.  I love that it combines addition with the idea of a simple scale.  Your child will have fun hanging the numbered bananas from the monkey’s hands.  If the numbers on each side add up to the same number, the monkey will look straight at you with his arms level.  If not, his eyes will cross and his arms will hang down.

Sums in Space — (ages 5+) Kids will have fun working on adding and subtracting numbers 0-9, comparing greater/less than, and identifying even and odd numbers, all with a space twist.  With 3 difficulty levels, this game will grow with your child.

Ocean Raiders — (ages 4-8) Watch out for storms and brave whirlpools as you try to get to the treasure at the bottom of the ocean.  Your kids will have a blast working on 1 and 2 digit addition facts in this adventure game.

Sum Swamp — (ages 5+) Have fun moving your swamp creature through the swamp in this award-winning game.  Roll the dice and then add or subtract to determine how many spaces your character will go.  Who will get to the finish line first?

Head Full of Numbers — (ages 7+)  Place the dice in the silly shaker and roll.  Then set the timer and see how many equations you can make with the numbers you’ve rolled.  Your child will have fun working on addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division skills alone or with the whole family in this fast-paced game that is perfect for working on fact fluency.

Dino Math Tracks — (ages 6+) Practice math skills with a dinosaur twist!  Roll the 4 dice and then put your dinosaur pieces in the right place value spots (ones, tens, hundreds, thousands).  Kids will also strengthen addition and subtraction skills as they work to get to the finish line.

Math Dice Jr. — (ages 5+) This is the perfect math game for on the go.  Roll the 12 sided die to reveal a number, then roll the other 5 dice to give you a set of numbers with which you have to make the first number.  You can  use multiplication, addition, division and subtraction to achieve this goal.  This game is best suited for kids who have mastered their math facts.

Money Bags — (ages 5+) Learn how to collect, count, and exchange money in this fun math game.  In order to collect money, kids must use the spinner.  If it says “no nickels,” they have to count out their money without using nickels.  If they land on “Bank Exchange” they can exchange their money (2 dimes and a nickel for a quarter).  Whoever has the most money at the end of the game wins.

Math War Multiplication Cards — (ages 8+) For just a couple dollars your child will have fun practicing multiplication facts with this simple card game.  Players solve the math problem on their card and lay them down, just as in the usual War card game, the card with the highest value wins.

Zoom — (ages 9+)  This is another fun multiplication card game.   Just when you think one player is winning, you pull a wild card and the score suddenly zooms forward, or backward, or no where at all.

These math games make math fact practice at home more fun.  They’d also be great for a math center at school.

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Using Base 10 Manipulatives  to teach double digit addition gives them a visual of why starting in the right-hand column is so important.  

You can easily make your own homemade base 10 math manipulatives to help your child work on math at home.  

Teaching double digit addition with homemade math manipulatives

Materials Needed:

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• Base 10 Manipulatives
• Extra pony beads and pipe cleaner pieces
• Dry-erase board
• Dry-Erase Markers

Set up for hands-on math activity

Use the dry-erase markers to write a double digit addition problem on your white board.

Show your child how to use your Base 10 Manipulatives and extra pony beads to represent each double digit number in your addition problem.

Explain that it is necessary to start by adding the one’s column. Add up the single pony beads together. If they add up to 10 or more, have your child use the extra pipe cleaner pieces and slide the pony beads onto it to create a new group of 10. This is a great visual to help them understand what is happening when we carry that one!

Now have your child count the remaining single pony beads up and write that number in the one’s column of the answer. Count by 10’s to add up the number that should go in the 10’s place of the answer.

Create several more problems for your child to solve in this method. Sliding the beads onto the pipe cleaners not only gives them a great visual for the math problem, but it’s also fun and great for fine motor skills, too!

Extensions

• Use the Base 10 Manipulatives and loose pony beads to represent a double digit number and have your child figure out what the number is and write it down on the white board.
• Let your child create a few addition problems for you to solve using the manipulatives. Being able to “be the teacher” not only gives them a sense of confidence, but also reinforces what they have learned.
• When your child is ready, use the manipulatives to teach double digit subtraction.

Using Base 10 Manipulatives makes math more fun, and will help your child better understand what is happening in the problem.

If you liked this hands-on math activity, you might want to check out our Subtraction Squish, Kinesthetic Activity to Teach Skip Counting, and Nerf Gun Math activities.

Using  homemade base 10 manipulatives to teach double digit addition can also be found in the ebook ABC’s & 123’s: 40+ Hands-On Play Activities to Build Letter, Number, and Shape Skills. 

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