The kids aren’t picky… they just want to play.Įach game needs a few common math manipulatives, like counters, snap cubes, or dice… nothing fancy. Just print on regular paper and use colorful game pieces. No budget for colored card stock? No worries. You can even laminate them so they’ll last longer. ![]() Who doesn’t? But printing with colored ink is costly, so I recommend printing your kindergarten math games on colored card stock instead. The new GAMES became the set of kindergarten math games we still use across both grade levels. It gives one student an opportunity to coach and the other student a chance to learn beside a peer. In fact, we often pair a competent student with one who needs extra support. Unless you’re teaching in a unicorn classroom, I bet you have a few of these students as well.Ĭreating new games that focused on kindergarten standards has worked very well for us and, actually, all the children have fun playing them… even those who have already mastered the skill. Not surprisingly, we still have a few students in each classroom who need extra support and time to master some of the kindergarten math standards from the year before. Other teachers on our team use them as math centers and we typically send them home so children can play (and review) outside of school. In my own classroom, I use them during math workshop as a way for the students to practice specific skills we’ve been working to learn. They’re so simple to prepare and once the kids understand the directions, they want to play them over and over again… To keep things simple, I started making these one-page math games years ago for our first graders. So adding fussy tasks to an already long list just isn’t necessary. There’s enough on our teacher to-do lists. ![]() ![]() Setting up kindergarten math games doesn’t have to be a chore.
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