At the beginning of every new school year I give my class a survey about themselves and school experiences, and one of the questions asks, "What's something fun you did in third grade." Well, for the first couple years, a lot of kids wrote, "We played games in math." And right away I said, "Ah, you like math games, eh? Well, I don't really have many, but I'll see if I can make at least a couple this year."

We use dice for estimating. Lots of dice for numbers with high place value, directions, and a recording sheet for accountability.

And just to change it up, instead of dice we use a board game to practice prime and composite numbers! Because sometimes flipping cards gives you the engineered numbers/odds that you need to make a game more playable.
I think the kids liked the games just as much when they were hand written as they do now that they're of publishable quality. But for me it's exciting that not only am I giving the (young) people what they want, I'm able to get my math games into other classes, thanks to TPT.





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