Math Monday: Money, Magic Math Squares, Place Value BINGO & Tegu Symmetry
jRing in June with review, recipes and tons of reading to start the summer.
We handed out mini muffin tins with three skill levels: coin recognition, cents, dollars and cents. Set out a bowl of coins and see how many ways you can make money add up. When it comes to money-our math skills are stellar!
jIf you have kids practicing addition skills-Magic Math Squares are similar to suduko; filling in missing boxes to make the puzzle work both horizontally and vertically. They can be as simple as 9-grid puzzles or more complicated, but the sum of all lines will come out the same.
kA dear friend forwarded these amazing and independent BINGO games. Place your moving player on the outer ring and roll the die to see how many spaces you can jump. Once you land, decipher the number (in the hundreds) by counting the hundreds, tens and ones. Find that number on your BINGO board in the center and mark it with a rock/cheerio. Once you have a horizontal or vertical line complete: BINGO!
kSymmetry is a good puzzler for budding brains since you have to imagine the mirror image of any particular item. Set up a center line (we use our rainbow tape) and place a pattern of sorts on the left or right side (with Lego, blocks, rocks...basically any item that can be duplicated). We have to set up a few of these in a row, as Mr. M is so quick, he likes to have the second puzzle ready right away.
He also enjoys setting up a Symmetry puzzle for me; the more complicated, the better!
You can complete this on a chalkboard or paper as well-to practice hand-writing motor skills.