Family Math Resources

Here are selected activities from the 2010 PTA FMN that could be uploaded electronically for permanent storage, as well as for use by members of the community. Teachers are welcome to use the materials as well! Games that were used are listed at the bottom of the page, along with
websites where they can be purchased.

Bonus Challenges

• Brain Quest: Are You Smarter Than a 2nd Grader?
  (available at www.brainquest.com)
• Chocolate Math
• Origami
  (paper can be purchased in craft stores, many instructions are online)
• Pascal’s Triangle Clever Coloring 
• Rumis
  (board game that can be purchased online, also available as Blokus 3-D)

Computer Games (played in the Library’s Computer Lab)

• List of Fun Websites and Software

Geometry

• Magnetic Tangrams (google “Magnetic Tangrams”)
• Pattern Block Boards (can be purchased at most educational and toy stores)
• Reflective Mirror
  (mirror can be purchased from ScientificsOnline.com)
• Symmetry Shapes 
  (shapes can be purchased on www.LearningResources.com)
• Two Halves Make a Whole 

Logic & Problem Solving

• Color Sudoku
  (you will have to make chips or something equivalent)
• Logic Links
  (books can be purchased online or at Toyland in Milford)
• Q-Tip Quandries Puzzles
• SET Game
  (can be purchased at most game stores for about $12)
• Sudoku (4x4, 6x6 and 9x9)
  
• Tic Tac Math

Measurement

• How High Am I? (foot, hand, span and cubit will need to be constructed)
• Measuring Monkeys (game can be purchased on-line)
• What’s My Measurement?

Midway Games

• Bowling for Dollars
• Gone Fishin’
• Math Facts Ring Toss
• Money Toss
• Patriots Toss Across

NOTE: These games were “hand made” for Family Math Night. You can create your
own midway math games based on these examples.

Numbers & Operations

• How High Can You Roll? (place value with dice)
• Mummy Math (game can be purchased on www.LearningResources.com)
• Operation Space Chase^TM (Grades K-2 and 3-4; can be purchased on-line)
• “Top It” Card Games (also known as “War”)
• Math Facts (using a deck of playing cards)

Probability

• Bears in a Box
• Chips in a Can
• Guesstimation Station
• Birth Month (need to purchase 12-sided dice)

NOTE: These games were “hand made” for Family Math Night. You can create your own probability guessing games based on these examples.

Time & Money

• Money Dominoes (game can be purchased from www.LearningResources.com)
• What Time Is It? (a foam clock and Telling Time flash cards are required)
• 6 Time and Money Games (can be purchased on-line)