October Family Math

Here are the family math activities suggested in our October newsletters.

Week of October 3, 2005

Play cards together as a family!

There are many wonderful card games that build a child’s number sense. For younger kids, card games can help children learn their numbers, reinforce their counting skills, and strengthen their logical reasoning. For older children, card games are a wonderfully painless way to ensure mastery of addition and subtraction facts, strengthen their strategic thinking, practice skip counting, and reinforce their logical reasoning.

Here are some suggestions:

For younger kids, play Uno, Crazy Eights, Go Fish, or a card matching game.

For older kids, some great math thinking card games include Rummy, Solitaire, Cribbage, and even Blackjack and Poker!

Can’t remember how to play? Tired of these games and need some fresh ideas? Want to borrow a cribbage board? Don’t worry! Call us, e-mail us, or stop down in the math lab and we will remind you how to play these wonderful games and show you some others that you may not be familiar with yet.