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March 2024 - Skunk

Games and puzzles are a great way of practicing math skills while having fun.  Playing games and doing puzzles support computational fluency, strategy development, and making connections between mathematical concepts.

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February 2024 - Krypto

Krypto is a card game designed by Daniel Yovich in 1963. This game is a great opportunity to build flexibility with numbers and operations.

Goal:  Be the first player to create a sequence to achieve the target card value.

How to Play: The Krypto deck consists of 56 cards: three each of numbers 1-6, four each of the numbers 7-10, two each of 11-17, one each of 18-25. 

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January 2024 - Math Puzzles

Online Puzzles

Games and puzzles are a great way of practicing math skills while having fun.  Playing games and doing puzzles support computational fluency, strategy development, and making connections between mathematical concepts.

Puzzles give meaningful and enjoyable problem solving opportunities to learn math while having fun.  They can be played individually or collaboratively with a friend or family member, and at home or on the go.

Ken Ken Puzzles

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December 2023- Dice Games

Games and puzzles are a great way of practicing math skills while having fun.  Playing games and doing puzzles support computational fluency, strategy development, and making connections between mathematical concepts.


Dice Games

There are many fun games you can play with a six-sided dice that support math fluency.   

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November 2023 - Card Games

Games and puzzles are a great way of practicing math skills while having fun.  Playing games and doing puzzles support computational fluency, strategy development, and making connections between mathematical concepts.

There are many fun games you can play with a deck of regular playing cards that support math fluency.   


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Goal: Be the first player whose three cards have a sum of 24.

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October 2023 - Tic Tac Toe

Games and puzzles are a great way of practicing math skills while having fun.  Playing games and doing puzzles support computational fluency, strategy development, and making connections between mathematical concepts.

Do you love to play Tic Tac Toe?                 

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September 2023 - Guess My Number ?

Games and puzzles are a great way of practicing math skills while having fun.  Playing games and doing puzzles support computational fluency, strategy development, and making connections between mathematical concepts.

Are you looking for fun ways to learn or practice math at home?  Whether you are out for a walk, taking a bus, driving in a car, or just hanging out at home, there are lots of fun games you can play to support math learning.

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May 2023 - Geometry, Measurement and the Circle!

The circle is an important shape with interesting geometric properties.  It is often one of the first shapes young children learn about as they begin to inquire about the different two-dimensional shapes in their environment.  As children get older, they begin to sort and classify shapes by their properties which leads to some important mathematical discoveries about the circle and a very special number that we call pi.  In the intermediate grades, students learn to identify the properties of circles and develop an understanding of pi and its relation to a circle.

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April 2023 - Number Sense, It’s More Than Just Memorizing Facts

Developing number sense and automaticity begins with building conceptual understanding of number and quantity.  It is essential that students understand that math is verb based and not a noun.  The action of joining and combining  bridges to additive thinking, while removing a part of a set leads to an understanding of subtraction.  These are important first experiences we want students to engage with prior to memorizing basic facts.

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