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Talking about math is something that can be really

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hard for students and really hard for parents

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to talk to their kids about. So these games are

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games that your families can play in five minutes

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or less to help prevent the summer slide and

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strengthen their kindergarten and first grade

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math skills. and welcome to Making Number Sense

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Make Sense, a podcast for elementary teachers,

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specifically early elementary teachers, looking

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to really make an impact in the number sense

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of their students. For these games, all you're

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going to need is dice and cards, which you can

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get at the dollar store, and 10 coins or pennies,

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maybe 20 if you want to stretch your counting,

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but 10 is really all you need. The first game

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is called roll and build or pick and build, and

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you can use either your cards or your dice for

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this game. The concept is the same. Your students

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or your children will pick up a card and whatever

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number they get on the card is how many items

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they need to collect or build. So with your pennies

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or other thing that you're counting with, if

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they pick the number six, then they need to count

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out six pennies. This will help with one -to

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-one correspondence and practicing the number

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sequence. The next game is called Who Has More?

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The other version is Who Has Less? For this game,

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you're going to just need dice or cards. Again,

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either one works for this game. So the first

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player is going to roll their dice or pick up

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a card, and then the second player rolls their

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dice or pick up a card depending on which item

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you're using. And the person who has more is

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the one who gets the point. You'll continue on

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until one player has 10 points. And that player

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is the winner. The other version who has less

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is exactly the same concept. The only difference

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is instead of getting a point, if you have a

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card with a higher value or if you have more,

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you'll get the point if you have less. Now, this

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game in particular is really great to play because

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often figuring out which number is less or. At

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the same time, if they're using counting to figure

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out if the number has more or less, having to

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count backwards can be trickier. So this is a

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great one to really help with thinking about

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the number that comes before the number that's

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less. In the future, that will really help them

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when they're doing subtraction, being able to

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think. Backwards the next game is called heads

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or tails and this game is all about decomposing

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numbers or making ten or different combinations

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of ten So for this game, you're going to need

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those ten pennies coins whichever And so the

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way that this game is played is you take your

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10 pennies, you shake them and drop them, and

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then you sort the ones that landed on heads and

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the ones that landed on tails. And you're going

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to write down how many landed on heads and how

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many landed on tails. And then you take your

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10 coins, shake again. And drop them how many

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landed on heads, how many landed on tails. And

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the more they do it, the more they'll start to

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recognize the combinations that make 10. So they

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might always be getting six and four or two and

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eight. And then eventually they'll start to just

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remember that those two numbers together make

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10. Now, if making 10 is a little bit of a challenge,

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counting out 10 is a challenge for your student

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or your child, then this would be the time to

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lower the number range. So maybe start with just

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five. And then as they get better at counting,

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become more confident. confident they can you

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can add other coins which is still a valuable

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skill to know the number of combinations that

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make five six seven and so on for the same reason

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when they start to get to larger numbers addition

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and subtraction once they know those combinations

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it helps them when they're using larger numbers

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in first grade and beyond the next game is called

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i spy numbers and for this one you're going to

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need the deck of cards you're going to put the

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cards into rows five rows of five face up so

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you can see all of the numbers and so for this

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one the first player might say I spy a number

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that is the same as 2 plus 2. And then the other

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player, the one who's guessing, would have to

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look for 4 because that's a number that makes

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2 plus 2. You could also give different kinds

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of clues, like I'm looking for a number that's

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larger than 6 but smaller than 8. And then they'd

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have to look for 7. You can also really increase

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and... focus on addition or subtraction. So you

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could say, I'm looking for a number that is the

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sum of seven and one, and then they'd pick the

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eight. You can really use any kind of clue that

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works for you, but these kinds of conversations

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are what's really gonna help them develop their

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number sense when they think about. the relationship

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of numbers to each other the next two games are

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two versions of each other kind of two sides

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of the same coin but you don't actually need

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your coins for this game you need the cards so

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the first player picks up a card second player

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picks up a card and you write it down and then

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the first player picks up another card and adds

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those two cards together and writes down the

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sum of the two cards that they picked and the

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second player does the same. Then when you pick

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the third card, you're adding the value of the

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third card to the sum that you just got. So for

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example, if player one got two and two, then

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four was their sum and they picked another card

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and then that card was six, they would add six

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to the four that they had and now their new sum

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is 10. Player two would do the same. You keep

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going that way and adding the value of the card

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you pick to the value that you just had until

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one player reaches 100. So this game is called

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Race to 100. The other version of this game has

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exactly the same materials, but instead of starting

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with 0 and adding, you're starting with 100 and

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subtracting. So in this game, race to 0, you

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start with 100, you pick a card, and whatever

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card you have, you subtract that number from

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100. So if I have 100 and I pick an 8, then I'm

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going to subtract 8 from 100, and I'll be left

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with 92. And then the other player does the same,

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and then instead of adding... the value of each

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card that you pick, you will be subtracting,

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and the first person to get to zero is the winner.

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I will have all of the directions for these games

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listed in a blog post in the show notes, and

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if you would like even more games that you can

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play in five minutes or less, there is a workbook

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with over 36 games that cover every single Common

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Core standard for kindergarten linked in the

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show notes as well. Let me know which games you're

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trying. If your kids like them, you can always

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send me a DM on Instagram that will be linked

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in the show notes as well.