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Possible Fact Practice Activities:

 

Flash Cards

Buy them. Make your own. Make cards with pictures for each number in the addition/subtraction sentence. The possibilities are endless!

 

Hop To It

This game can be played with addition or subtraction.

What You Need:

• Index cards with the numbers 1-20 written in large print on each
• 2 or more players

What You Do:

• Spread the cards out on the ground.
• The caller calls out an addition or subtraction sentence equal to one of the cards from 1-20.
• All other players try to be the first to jump to the card equal to number sentence called.
  • Ex: Caller says “5+9”, players try to be the first to jump to card 14
• The first player to reach the card can pick it up.
• Switch callers on each turn.
• When all cards are picked up, the player with the most cards wins.

 

Variations:

• Write the numbers 1-20 on the driveway with sidewalk chalk.
• Players work together (instead of competing) to see how many cards they can pick up in a minute.

 

“I Wish I Had…”

No materials needed! This is a great game to play in the car on the way to soccer, dance, piano, dinner at Grandma’s, etc.

What You Do:

• The caller says “I wish I had…(any number up to 20)…But I only have (any number less than 20).”
• The other player(s) say what the caller needs.

Ex: 

Caller: “I wish I had 10 but I only have 3.”

Player(s): “You need 7!”

Caller: “I wish I had 12 but I only have 9.”

Player(s): “You need 3!”

 

Top-it

This game can be played with addition or subtraction.

What You Need:

• It can be played with a deck of cards, dice or dominoes.

What You Do:

• Players each flip two cards (pick two dominoes, roll two dice).
• Players add (or subtract) their two numbers.
• The player with the higher total (or lower difference) wins that round.

Variations:

• Write each number sentence as you play.
• Compete so the first player to add or subtract the numbers wins the round.

Make 10 Memory

This game is played like traditional Memory, except the matches are combinations of 10!

What You Need:

• Deck of cards
• 2 or more players

What You Do:

• Take out the face cards and shuffle cards.
• Deal the cards out face up with 5 cards to a row, making 4 rows.
• Put extra cards to the side to replenish as you play.
• On your turn, choose 2 cards that equal 10.
• Replace with extra cards.
• Game is over when all cards are used up or no more combinations can be made with cards still out.
• Winner is person with the most matches!

Variation:

• Play with cards face down, to make it like memory game.
• Use 3 cards to make 10!

Tens Go Fish

This card game is played just like the traditional Go Fish game, except you ask for matches to make 10!  You can also play Go Fish 7, 15, 20, etc. using 2 or more cards to reach your total.

What You Need:

• Deck of cards
• 2 or more players (works best with 4 players)

What You Do:

• Take out the face cards, Ace=1
• Deal 7 cards to each player, leaving the leftover cards for the “fish pond”.
• Look in hand for any matches of 10 ( 7 & 3, 6 & 4, etc.) and lay them face up in front of you.
• On your turn, ask a player for a match for 10. (“Do you have a 5?”)
• If the player does not have the card, GO FISH!
• Play continues until one player matches all the cards in his/her hand.
• Winner is player with most matches!

 

XtraMath.org

This is a free website that students can use to practice memorization of basic facts (similar to using flash cards).