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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 16, 2012 · Last modified March 9, 2016
My daughter was standing right next to me when I made ED’s domino sheet (the ones I shared last week). She wanted her own math worksheets where she could create her own problems. Together, she and I designed simple addition and subtraction sheets. She rushed right over and put them in her math workbox! They can be used with dice; DD used 12-sided and 20-sided dice. Download the free Addition-Subtraction...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 15, 2012 · Last modified March 9, 2016
This week we’ve added in a bit of domino math to ED’s math time. I know there are lots of domino math sheets out there including the domino mats and cards from mathwire.com, at Making Learning Fun (domino addition, subtraction or multiplication), and a domino worksheet made by Erica over at Confessions of a Homeschooler. I needed one that wouldn’t overwhelm ED, though. I wanted just a few problems on the...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 26, 2012 · Last modified March 1, 2016
If you have a break in the weather where you are, you might want to play Monster Math. It’s just a racing version of freeze tag that I play with my kids. I came up with the fancy name for this game years ago. They beg for me to get out and chase them down! I take index cards and write down math problems. For ED (age 4)...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 24, 2012
Since LD has had time on the computer playing multiplication math games, DD wanted some games of her own. Here are some of the addition and subtraction games I found for her. Funschool Alien Attack — LD was really keen to play this and the levels got progressively more challenging (13+13 or 16+17) Another game from Funschool was the Math Popper. I have the addition version pictured, but they also have...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 7, 2012 · Last modified January 22, 2015
Valentine’s Day Division Cards I made a Valentine’s Day set of division cards to use with LD over the next week or so. We use these cards to play a game called Fast Track — an idea we got from Peggy Kaye’s Games for Math. To make the board you need a large piece of butcher paper or poster board. There are three win spaces, three start spaces and various...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 13, 2011
Find the missing addend activity: Do you ever get attitude when you do certain subjects with your kids?? For some reason, LD has been reluctant to do math from one of his books. Playing games has turned that attitude around (for the time being) and he’s really done some great math work in the past couple of weeks. (We start with games like our beloved Speed! Multiplication Game, the division...
Since LD and I have been playing his division games daily, DD wanted her own board as well. I made one up for her last night so she can work on her sums to 16, 17, 18 and 19. (ie. 8+8, 9+10 and so forth). If you are interested the addition games and cards are found here.
Sometimes DD and I just play games and don’t work in her textbooks. I thought I’d share what she’s doing for the next few days or so for addition. She’s working on sums of 11 and 12. I printed out gameboards and partner worksheets from The School Bell, Kathy Gursky’s website. Before we started playing the game, though we went over the T-bar sums (0+11, 1+10, 2+9, etc.) We used...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 6, 2011
I made this simple math game for DD. This goes along with some of the math skills she’s learning with her new math curriculum. It’s a game of practicing doubling the numbers 4 through 9 (4+4, 5+5, etc.). Each player takes a turn rolling the die. He/She doubles the number on the die and then places a token or marker on that number on the gameboard. If another player has...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 15, 2011
Late at night my brain often whirls with ideas. Last spring I put the skip counting patterns to familiar tunes since LD is working on his basic multiplication facts. For example, I put the 7s to the tune of ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat.’ LD learned that so well I went back and created another tune for the 6s and the 8s which he’ll be working on again this fall....
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 3, 2011
I’ve had some good luck getting my curriculum used this year from http://www.homeschoolclassifieds.com. I bought three books from homeschool classified and got prompt replies from the sellers. The books arrived quickly in the mail. The prices made me excited as I saved quite a bit buying them second-hand. Just wanted to mention that venue if anyone else was looking around for curriculum for this fall.
Math General Posts / Math--Addition
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published July 11, 2011 · Last modified December 4, 2015
This activity was made by a teacher named Debbie. It’s called Feed the Dog and has problems such as 10-7, 12-8, 2+5 and 3+2. I saw it at Oceans of First Grade Fun. You’ll find the link to print out the game there. You might be interested in this related post: Kindergarten Math (addition games/place value activities) You might also be interested in: Free Montessori Style Addition Sheets (No Regrouping):...
I saw these ten-dot cards over at Oceans of First Grade Fun and thought I’d give them a try for DD. The object is to flash the card quickly, put it away and have them mentally figure out how many dots there were (2+2 or 4+4). It’s just another way of helping kids to become automatic with their number sense and basic addition facts. DD actually likes these and we...
Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Math General Posts / Math--Addition / Math--Multiplication
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 15, 2011 · Last modified March 16, 2016
DD took a domino and created an addition problem writing it on her recording sheet. We used the domino recording sheet from Mathwire. You can find more domino math ideas on the investigating dominoes page and on this Mathwire page.There’s a cute activity also for addition called the domino parking lot with use with regular sized dominoes. ED simply counted the dots and put her wooden numbers on top of...
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