Strategy Practiced

· Mental Math

Name of Game

· War

Number of Players

· 2

Materials needed

· Game cards

Procedure

· Players share up a deck of cards.  Players will then flip over the first of their respective cards.  Players will then do either one of the following depending on what you want them to be working on. 

·  add the two cards first one that gets the correct answer wins the two cards.

·  multiply

· subtract

· divide

· or the players could just figure out what card is the highest number – greater than or less than.

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Shrimp and Sabatini 

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Strategy Practiced

·                Place Value

Name of Game

·                Place Value Face Value

Number of Players

·                At least 4

Materials needed

·                Cards

Procedure

·                Remove Jokers from deck, for lower level players, or to introduce the game, also remove the face cards (those are the ones with the faces on them)

·                The dealer decided which number is the target number. 

·                Players take turns receiving a card from the dealer.  If the target number is 100, players will quickly learn to not take more than 3 cards.

·                Once everyone is happy with the number of cards they have, they change the order of the cards, to make the number closest to the target number.

·                For example, if a player is aiming for 400, they may move the cards 9, 3,  and 2, to be 3, 9,2. Thus reading the cards as 392

·                The player with the closest number to the target number wins, and becomes the dealer.

·                All players must read their cards aloud, and estimate how close they are to the target number

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Cops and Roberts

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Strategy Practiced

·                Pre-Algebra

·                T-charts

·                Ordered Pairs

Name of Game

·                Number Machine

Number of Players

·                Pairs is best

Materials needed

·                Clipboards, paper, pencil.

Procedure

·                Players make a T-chart on their paper, (A t-chart looks like a T, Rico)

·                One side should be labelled Input, and the other Output, or X and Y. Label the T-chart according to your players’ levels.

·                Players think of a rule, for example Input x 3 + 2 = Output.  They fill in their chart according to the rule, and pass it to their partner.  The partner must guess the rule, and test it.

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Roberts

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Strategy Practiced

·                Array building

Name of Game

·                Array Tetris

Number of Players

·                Two

Materials needed

·                Graph Paper

·                Two markers, or pencil crayons

·                Dice, any sided

Procedure

·                Players roll two dice, and multiply the numbers.

·                They draw the array on the graph paper, with their makers, and write the equation on the coloured squares.

·                Their partner rolls the dice, and colours the array on the graph paper.

·                The object of the game is to cover as much of the square as possible, leaving as few squares as possible not coloured.

·                At the end, when there is no more room left, the players receive one point for each row that is totally coloured in, or for each column.

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Roberts

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Strategy Practiced

·                Mental Math

Name of Game

·                Counting Up or Down

Number of Players

·                2

Materials needed

·                Game cards

Procedure

·                Players share up a deck of cards.  Players will take turns flipping over the first of their respective cards.  

·                each card is used to subtract from 100 (or to add up to 100 or whatever) to reach zero (or 100 or whatever)

·                players record on paper as their score is reduced (or rises) like so:                   100

·                             (deal six) write           94

·                             (deal seven) write      87

·                players do not record the whole algorithm

·                winner is the first to reach 0 or 100 or whatever

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Madden down the hatches

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Strategy Practiced

·                Mental Math

Name of Game

·                Making Change

Number of Players

·                1 or more

Materials needed

·                Chart for combinations

·                Coin Stamps

·                Play or real Money 

Procedure

·                Players use change to make as many combinations as possible to make change for a loony

·                Players use coin stamps to chart their discoveries on paper

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Oh my Grunsten

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Strategy Practiced

·   Math money

Name of Game

·   Dice Toss

Number of Players