A Different Kind of Gaming

Just came back from the Indian Casino with Mom. We like to go up and play Black Jack once in awhile. We promised ourselves "We must leave at 3:00 pm!". We did stick to our promise, which is good since you tend to lose all track of time. I managed to turn $100 into $150 which left me in fine spirits.

Since then, I've been working on a couple of different types of games. Classroom math games are an invaluable way to get kids to work easily with numbers while having fun. My second grade teaching colleague mentioned that her students needed more practice with adding and subtracting 5s, and 10s while working with 3 digit numbers. I created a gameboard where students jump "puddles" as they add or subtract 1, 10 or 100 to a number. Since everyone starts with the same number, they should all end at the same number if they have added and subtracted correctly, making it easy for teacher to see who may need intervention. To download this freebie, go to My Teachers Pay Teachers store. Check out Jumping Puddles 2, which has students adding and subtracting 5, 10, 15, 25, and 50.