Elementary Fun Math Activities

Creative and fun math activities get kids to participate and learn math easily. Math is everywhere and we use it daily. Sometimes we can just get the children involve in some daily activities to learn math. There are times we can adopt a different approach; be it radical or unconventional to make them learn effectively.

Elementary Math Activity – “Happy Cards Game”

In fact, poker card is one of the best math tools available. One can turn it into many interesting fun math games for kids. My beloved husband created this math teaching method. He has created many fun math activities to teach our kids math.

Of all the fun math activities, my children love the card games most. There are times they even beg us to play with them. My son gave the term “Happy Cards” as he said he feels very happy playing these cards with us. (I thought it was a great expression from him – combining his emotion with the activity....and thus the term “Happy Cards”.) This also goes to prove that by spending time playing and teaching our kids, it strengthens the bonding between parents and child.

If you like to use poker cards for some of those fun math activities, here are some different ways you can use those poker cards:

1. Remove all jacks, queens and kings. Divide the remaining cards in the stack between the players.

Place the cards face down. Each player turns over one card and compares who has the largest number will be the winner.

2. Each player writes 1-12 on a piece of paper. Use only cards 1-6 in every suit (hearts, clubs, spades, diamonds). Each player picks two cards and adds up the numbers on them. The players can choose to mark off the numbers on the list by using the total value or crossing off two or three numbers that make that value.

For example, if the player picks a 4 and a 6, the player can choose to cross out 10, or 5 and 5, or 7 and 3, or 8 and 2, or 9 and 1, or 6 and 4. The player who crosses out all numbers on list is the winner.

3. Remove all jacks, queens and kings. Each player takes 3 cards from the stack. Total up the numbers on 3 cards and see whose score is the highest but does not exceed 21. Those who exceeded 21 are loser.

One of the fun math activities the kids enjoyed would be identifying and adding up the license plate number of cars on the road. When the kids were young, just get them to identify the car plate number on the cars they see on the road while traveling. Challenge them to add up the car plate digital mentally and who has the answer first is the winner.

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