Family Guide to Supporting

4th Grade Students

Learning From Home
Dear Families,

Welcome to ST Math! We believe your child has the potential to deeply understand, and truly love math. At MIND
Education, our mission is to ensure that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world’s most
challenging problems. We have designed some resources in this guide that are designed to support your child’s
math learning at home. Check out the three types of activities included in this guide.

ST Math Program: ST Math is a PreK-8 visual instructional program that leverages the brain’s innate spatial-temporal
reasoning ability to solve mathematical problems. ST Math games include challenging puzzles that help your child
deepen their mathematics understanding. If you need more information on ST Math, please visit stmath.com.

Hands-On Math Activities: The Hands-On Math

Activities focus on specific math concepts within
a grade level. Each activity is designed to engage
your child in hands-on learning and promote
understanding of the concept. These activities
are fun for children and families to do math at
home. Each activity includes clear directions,
vocabulary words, and questions families can ask
to support their children during the activity.

Table Games: Number Sense is an area that

is critical to mathematics learning. It includes
mathematical concepts like counting, addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, place value, estimation, and many others. In this packet, there are
games that families can play at home with their children to build number sense and practice those critical skills in a fun
and engaging way through gameplay.
Contents

ST Math 4-9
Resources to support, monitor, and assess
your child’s learning while they play ST Math.

Math Content Focused Activities 10-19

A collection of hands-on, grade-band activities
focused on practicing and exploring math concepts.
(Children will not get on ST Math for these activities.)

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Building Number Sense Activities
Hands-on games designed to support
children in building number sense.
(Children will not get on ST Math for these activities.)
 Tips to make the most of ST Math
Resources to support, monitor, and assess children learning while they play ST Math.

Your child will work independently on ST Math and track their usage on the ST Math calendar
(page 6). Recommended usage time is 20 to 30 minutes, 3 times a week. Work with your child
to set goals and monitor their progress toward achieving their goals. This is a great
opportunity to help your child see that they can achieve their goals.

If possible, take time to sit with your child and ask them to explain to you what they are
learning with ST Math. ST Math puzzles provide a great foundation for math discourse.

A fun way to share learning together is to have your child “teach” a family member how to
play one of the ST Math games. They can share the mathematics in the game.

Encourage your child to use the Problem Solving Process to help problem solve through
the puzzle. We’ve designed a bookmark (pages 7-8) that you can use with your child.

If your child gets stuck playing the ST Math puzzles, you can also use the questions on the
Facilitating Questions poster (page 9) to help your child problem solve through the ST Math
games.

If your child is struggling, use some at home math tools which you can find around the house
or that you can make in the house. Some ideas include using pastas, dried beans, dice, playing
cards, coins, beads, buttons, egg cartons, legos, index cards, etc.

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 ST Math Resources Included in This Family Guide

ST Math Usage Calendar: As your children play ST Math,

have them track their progress on the calendar.

Problem Solving Process Facilitation Bookmark: The

facilitation bookmark is a great tool for your child when
they are struggling with a puzzle. Use this bookmark
to walk through the Problem Solving Process with your
child. This will help your child with understanding what
the puzzle is asking them to do and what they need to
solve it.

Facilitating Questions Poster: This poster is a great

resource provided to families to help support your
child while they play ST Math at home. It is important
not to tell your child the answer, but to ask questions
that help them think through the puzzles. For more
information on this strategy, view the videos on our
instructional resources YouTube playlist.

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 ST Math® Usage Calendar
Mark your progress every time you use ST Math. Try to play at least 30 minutes. Color the box each day that shows the number of minutes you played. Fill
in how many puzzles you completed in ST Math.

STUDENT NAME: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

DATE: DATE: DATE: DATE: DATE:

10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min.

Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles
I Completed: I Completed: I Completed: I Completed: I Completed:

DATE: DATE: DATE: DATE: DATE:

10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min.

Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles
I Completed: I Completed: I Completed: I Completed: I Completed:

DATE: DATE: DATE: DATE: DATE:

10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min.

Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles
I Completed: I Completed: I Completed: I Completed: I Completed:

DATE: DATE: DATE: DATE: DATE:

10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 10 min. 20 min. 30 min.

Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles Number of Puzzles
I Completed: I Completed: I Completed: I Completed: I Completed:

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Facilitating Questions
In ST Math®, the puzzles start off simple and then get more challenging as your student
progresses. If they encounter a difficult puzzle, they may ask you for your help. Don’t feel like
you have to give your student the right answer. Allow them to experience productive struggle.

Here are some questions that you can ask your student to help them stay motivated. These
questions can be used in the classroom or at home:
• Describe what you see on the screen.
• What have you tried to do to solve the puzzle?
• What do you think you need to do to solve the puzzle?
• Describe the strategy that you are going to try.
• What do you think is going to happen when you click the Go Button?
• Describe what you see after you try your strategy. Was it what you expected?
• How does this compare to what you thought would happen?
• What did you learn from the animated feedback?
• What do you know now to help you with future puzzles?

If they continue to struggle and do not know what to do, have them play a previous level.
Then ask them, “What did you learn from the previous level that can help you in this new
level?” followed by, “Why do you think it worked?” Or suggest using some math tools they
can find around the house.

I TRY

I SEE I THINK I LEARN I KNOW

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 Hands-On Math Activities
A collection of hands-on, grade-band activities focused on practicing and exploring math concepts.

Tips for doing these activities at home:

• These are great activities for you to do with your child. Family members can use the questions and ideas provided
to promote math conversations.
• Once your child finishes the activity, have them write a 5-sentence summary or draw a picture of what they
learned. They should also list any questions they have for their teacher.

Resources Included in This Family Guide

Math Activity Guide: This guide outlines activities,

their related materials, and math concepts.

Math Activity Sheets: These activity sheets include

directions, vocabulary words, sample questions, and
extension ideas. The activities are designed so that
students can do it with the teacher or at home with
their families.

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 Grade 4

Game Materials Needed Key Ideas

• Notecards
Numbers or shapes can form a pattern
Follow the Rule • Pencil
according to a specific rule
• Paper

• Notecards
Fractions greater than 1 can be written as a
Fraction Match • Pencil
mixed number.
• Paper

• Toothpicks, straws or other straight

You can compare fractions with the same or
household objects
Make It Equal different denominators as long as the fractions
• Paper
refer to the same whole.
• Pencil

• Straight household items such as

What’s Your Angles can be named and classified acco ding
toothpicks, straws, chopsticks, pencils
Angle? to their measurement in degrees.
• Notecards or sticky notes

• Two sheets of copy paper or

construction paper Fractions with the same denominator can be
Fraction Fun
• Scissors added or subtracted using visual models.
• Markers

Shapes can be named and classified base

• Toothpicks on attributes such as types of angles and
Shape Detective
• Notecard or piece of paper the presence or absence of parallel and/or
perpendicular sides.

• Creature Cards
Problems can have multiple steps and multiple
How Many • Number cubes (dice)
operations. Parentheses can help to make the
Legs? • Paper
order of operations clear.
• Pencil

• Pennies
• Nickels
• Dimes In a measurement system, a larger unit can be
Coin Trade
• Quarters traded for a smaller unit.
• Pencil
• Paper

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 Follow the Rule
Activity for 4th Grade Students
This game focuses on helping children see that numbers or shapes can form a pattern. That pattern can
follow a given rule (e.g., “add 5” or “x 2”). Your child should be able to recognize the rule a pattern follows and
generate a pattern that follows a given rule.

Directions:
• Write the following rules on notecards and place the notecards
upside down.
Add 15
Subtract 2
Multiply by 5
Add 1/2
Multiply by 10
Subtract 1/2
• Decide who will be Player 1 and who will be Player 2. Player 1 should
choose a starting number between 10 and 100. Player 2 should draw
a notecard and follow the rule starting at the number chosen by Player 1.
• Player 1 starts at the number Player 2 ended on and follows the same
rule. Continue until Player 1 and 2 have followed the rule 2 times each.
• Switch roles and repeat.

Math Words
to Use: Materials Sample Questions to Ask:

Pattern • Pencil • How can you prove your pattern follows

Rule • Paper the given rule?
• Notecards • What are the next two numbers in this
pattern?
• What if this pattern started with the
number __?

Ideas to extend Learning:

• Explore shape patterns with your child. Ask them to make shape patterns that follow rules that use geometry
vocabulary (e.g., “make an ABC pattern using only quadrilaterals” or “make a growing pattern with shapes with
increasing number of sides”).
• Look closer at one of the repeated patterns. Ask your child to tell you what kind of numbers they see in the
pattern (even or odd). Discuss why this is true and if this is still true if they start the pattern with a different number
(e.g., Rule is add 2 and start at 5; 7, 9, 11, 13. Then Start at 18; 20, 22, 24,26).
• Use one of the rules on the notecard to create an input/output table. Challenge students to apply the rule to
bigger and bigger starting numbers.

Example:

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 Fraction Match
Activity for 4th Grade Students
This game focuses on helping children to understand that a fraction can be written as a mixed number (e.g., 10/8
is equivalent to 1 2/8 or 1 1/4). Your child should understand that the fraction and corresponding mixed number
are equivalent.

Directions:
• Gather notecards, paper, and a pencil.
• Create the set of notecards shown
to the right with one number per card.
• Mix up the notecards. Have your child
match the fraction with the equivalent
mixed number.
• Have your child draw a visual model of
each mixed number and equivalent
fraction pair.
Example:

Math Words
to Use: Materials Sample Questions to Ask:

Fraction • Notecards • How can you prove these are equivalent?

Mixed number • Pencil • Why is the numerator bigger than the
Equivalent • Paper denominator?
Numerator • What fraction with this denominator would
Denominator equal 1?
• How many more halves/fourths/eighths would
we need to have another whole number?

Ideas to Extend Learning:

• Have your child randomly choose two of the notecards. Ask them to add (or subtract) the two numbers. Ask them
to express their answer as a mixed number.
• Make a list of real world situations where the answer to a question might be a mixed number (e.g., “How much
pizza is left after a big party?” Or “How many rooms in the building have been painted today?”).
• Draw different visual models of mixed numbers. Ask your child to write the matching mixed number and
equivalent fraction.

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 Make It Equal
Activity for 4th Grade Students
This game focuses on equivalent fractions. Your child should understand that as long as fractions refer to the
same whole we can compare them. Fractions do not have to have the same denominator in order to determine
how they compare, but your child might find that c eating common denominators makes comparing two
fractions easier.

Directions:
• Gather two toothpicks (or straws or any straight household object),
paper and a pencil.
• On the paper, write two fractions for your child to compare.
Leave a fairly big space between the fractions and room underneath
each fraction.
• Have your child draw a visual model underneath each fraction and
decide which fraction is greater. Have them use their two toothpicks to
create a greater than, less than, or equal sign (>, <, =).
• Work together to prove the answer by finding a common denominato .

Math Words
to Use: Materials Sample Questions to Ask:

Equivalent • Toothpicks, straws or other straight • Why is this fraction greater than/less than
fractions household objects this fraction?
Numerator • Paper • What does your visual model show?
Denominator • Pencil • Can you think of an equivalent fraction for
Greater than this fraction?
Less than • How could we find a common denominator
Equal to

Ideas to Extend Learning:

• Look at all of the fractions you used in the game. Ask your child to choose three fractions and place them in order
from least to greatest. Repeat with other fractions.
• Choose one of the fractions from the game. Ask your child to generate a list of equivalent fractions.
• Help your child to memorize multiplication facts up to 9 x 9. This will make finding common denominator
much easier.

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 What’s Your Angle?
Activity for 4th Grade Students
This game focuses on helping children to identify different types of angles. Your child should understand that an
angle is formed when two rays or line segments share an endpoint - called a vertex. The measurement of the
amount of rotation (or turning) around the vertex is called an angle. Angles can be measured and then classified
based on this measurement.

Directions:
• Gather straight objects such as toothpicks, straws, chopsticks,
pencils, etc.
• On notecards or sticky notes, write the following labels: straight, right,
acute, obtuse.
• Use two toothpicks (or other straight objects) to make examples of the
angles from the table below. Have your child label each angle with the
correct name and explain their answer.
• Give your child the straight objects, hold up one of the labels and have
them create an angle that would match the label and explain why.

Straight angle Exactly 180°

Right angle Exactly 90°

Acute angle Greater than 0° but less than 90°

Obtuse angle Greater than 90° but less than 180°

Math Words
to Use: Materials Sample Questions to Ask:

Angle • Straight household items such as • How do you know these two lines form
Straight toothpicks, straws, chopsticks, pencils an angle?
Right • Notecards or sticky notes • How can you show that this angle is greater
Acute than/less than a right angle?
Obtuse • Do all acute/obtuse angles have the same
degrees measurement? Why or why not?
• Do all right angles have the same
measurement? Why or why not?

Ideas to Extend Learning:

• Give your child pencil and paper. Hold up the different angle label cards and ask them to draw an angle that
matches the label. Ask your child to draw more than one acute angle or obtuse angle.
• Draw and label a right angle. Divide the angle into two parts and label the measurement of one of the parts in
degrees (If you do not have a protractor to measure the angle, make an estimate of the size of the angle). Label
the other part with a question mark. Ask your child to use what they know about the right angle to find th
measurement of the unknown angle.
• Explore the angles in common shapes and objects. Can your child identify straight, right, acute and obtuse angles
in everyday objects?

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 Fraction Fun
Activity for 4th Grade Students
This game focuses on helping children to understand how to add and subtract fractional parts that come from the
same whole. Your child should understand that if a whole is broken into 4 equal parts, for example each part could
be named ¼. These parts can be added or subtracted.

Directions:
• Gather two sheets of paper, scissors, and two markers.
• Work together with your child to make two sets of fraction strips.
• Cut each piece of paper into 4 equal strips. One strip will be the
whole. The other 3 strips will be folded to make halves, fourths, and
eighths (as shown below).
• Work together to label each piece. Focus on naming the pieces based
on the number of equal parts the whole has been cut into. (e.g., The
larger rectangle has been cut into 2 equal pieces. The denominator
will be 2. This piece is 1 of those pieces so the numerator will be 1.
This piece is ½.)

• Pose the following addition and subtraction problems to your child.

Have them model their work using the fraction strips.

Math Words
to Use: Materials Sample Questions to Ask:

• What does the numerator represent?

Fraction • Two sheets of copy paper or construction • What does the denominator represent?
Equal parts paper • How many equal parts have you made?
Numerator • Scissors • How do you know we have more than 1 whole?
Denominator • Markers • Why doesn’t the denominator change when
we add the fractional parts?

Ideas to Extend Learning:

• Choose two different fraction pieces (e.g., 1/4 and 1/2). Talk with your child about which piece is bigger and why.
Choose other pieces to compare.
• Ask your child to find equivalent fractions (pieces that a e equal to each other). For example, what are other ways
to represent 1/2using the pieces you have?
• Look at the addition problems where the parts equaled more than one. Help your child to represent this answer as
a mixed number (e.g., 3/2 is the same as 11/2).
• Using only the fraction pieces you have made (in one set), find all of the ways you can make exactly one whole
Write the addition expression that represents each way.

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 Shape Detective
Activity for 4th Grade Students
This game focuses on helping children to use geometry vocabulary to name and classify shapes. Your child should
understand that shapes can be named and classified based on attributes such as the number of sides, types of
angles, and whether or not the shape has parallel or perpendicular lines, etc.

Directions:
• Give your child toothpicks (or other straight items) and ask them to
make the different shapes from the list below.
• After your child makes each shape, have them talk about its
attributes. Ask questions about the number of sides, types of angles
(right, acute, obtuse), and whether or not the shape has parallel or
perpendicular sides.
• Use the corner of a notecard or piece of paper as a “right angle
checker” for each shape.
• Repeat with all of the shapes in the list. Help your child to use correct
geometry vocabulary as they describe the shapes.
• Shapes to make: square, rectangle, rhombus, pentagon, hexagon,
octagon, right triangle

Math Words
to Use: Materials Sample Questions to Ask:

Right angle • Toothpicks • What is the name of this shape?

Acute angle • Notecard or piece of paper • What type(s) of angles does this shape have?
Obtuse angle How do you know?
Parallel • Does this shape have parallel sides? How do
Perpendicular you know?
Pentagon • Does this shape have perpendicular sides?
Hexagon How do you know?
Octagon • Do all squares have parallel sides?
All hexagons?

Ideas to Extend Learning:

• Look for parallel and perpendicular lines in your home. Which objects have both types of lines? Use the right
angle checker (if possible) to identify perpendicular lines.
• Look for acute, obtuse, and right angles in your home. Use the right angle checker (if possible) to identify
right angles.
• Find objects in your home that have a line of symmetry (a line that would make two matching parts if the
object was folded across that line). Discuss the attributes of the object that make it possible to have a line(s)
of symmetry.

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 How Many Legs?
Activity for 4th Grade Students
This game focuses on helping children to perform more than one operation in a single problem. Your child does
not yet have to know the order of operations, so parentheses can help to clarify which operation is completed first
in a multi-step problem.

Directions:
• Gather paper, a pencil, number cubes (dice) and the ST Math
Creatures Board.
• Have your child choose 2 creatures. Have them roll a number cube
and place it next to one of the creature cards. Have them roll the other
number cube and place it next to the other creature card.
• Ask your child to represent the total number of creature legs with an
equation. Remind them that parentheses can help to make the order
of operations easier to see. Work together to solve the problem. (e.g.,
If your child chooses a Robot and a Dog and rolls a 5 for Robot and
a 6 for Dog, their equation would read (5 x 3) + (6 x 4). Your child
would solve 5 x 3 = 15 and then 6 x 4 = 24 and add the two answers
together (15 + 24) to get an answer of 39.)
• Repeat with other creatures on the board.

Math Words
to Use: Materials Sample Questions to Ask:

Parentheses • ST Math Creatures Board • How could we represent the total number of
Operation • Number cubes (dice) (creature 1) legs?
Multi-step problem • Paper • How could we represent the total number of
• Pencil (creature 2) legs?
• How do we find out the total number of leg
all together?
• What do the parentheses tell us to do in this
equation?

Ideas to Extend Learning:

• Pose multi-step word problems with remainders for your child to solve. The word problems could involve the same
operation or two different operations. For example, “JiJi has one basket with 16 shoes and one basket with 39
shoes. JiJi gives the shoes to Ant and Ant’s friends. How many ants can wear the shoes? Explain.”
• Explain to your child that a variable is a letter or symbol that represents an unknown. Use a variable in each
equation you write to represent the total number of creature legs.
• Challenge your child by using more than two Creature Cards.
• Challenge your child by changing the number cubes from 1 - 6 to 7 - 12 (add 6 to the number rolled).

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 Coin Trade
Activity for 4th Grade Students
This game focuses on helping children to understand that in a measurement system a larger unit can be traded
for a smaller unit. Your child should understand U.S. coin values and how a larger value coin can be traded for
multiple coins with a smaller value.

Directions:
• Gather paper, a pencil, and a collection of coins: pennies, nickels,
dimes and quarters.
• Pose the “You Have, You Need” situations listed below to your child.
Ask them to represent the same amount using a different type of coin.
As your child works, ask them to think out loud so you can hear their
strategy (e.g., “I have 3 dimes and I need to trade them for nickels. I
know that one dime is 10¢ so if each nickel is 5¢, it takes 2 nickels to
equal 1 dime. I need 3 groups of 2 nickels so 6 nickels is the same as
3 dimes.”)

You have 2 quarters You need dimes

You have 8 dimes You need pennies

You have 4 quarters You need nickels

You have 5 quarters You need dimes

You have 15 nickels You need quarters

Math Words
to Use: Materials Sample Questions to Ask:

Value • Pennies • What is the value of this coin?

Convert • Nickels • How can you prove these two coin sets
Equal • Dimes are equal?
• Quarters • When might you need to trade one type of
• Pencil coin for another?
• Paper • Can you represent __¢ in dimes and then
nickels and then pennies?

Ideas to Extend Learning:

• Add dollar bills into the exchange. Ask your child to convert the dollar into different coin types.
• Pose multi-step word problems with money for your child to solve. For example, “You buy an eraser for 30¢ and a
pen for 45¢. You pay with a dollar bill. The cashier gives you your change in nickels. How many nickels did you get
back as change?”
• Challenge your student to compare the money system with other measurement systems. How are the coin values
similar to centimeters, meters, and kilometers, for example? Why do we sometimes use bigger (or smaller) units
of measurement?

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 Table Games
Hands-on games and math stories designed to support your child in building number sense.

Tips for families:

• Play the Table Games with your children. This is a great opportunity to strengthen their math skills and have fun at
the same time.
• Some of the games in the packet include game boards. All of the game boards can easily be made by your child
instead of printing them out.
• Consider making these games part of a fun family game night.
• Use the ST Math Creature Board to play the game target number. The directions to play the game are included in
this guide.
• Challenge your children to create their own mathematical problems for you to solve.

Resources Included in This Family Guide

The resources in the table below are provided in the Family Guide to support your child as they learn at home.

Grade-Band Game Activity Guide: This guide outlines

games, their related materials, and math concepts.

Game Directions: Step-by-step directions on how to

play the games. These games are focused on building
number sense.

ST Math Creature Mat Guide: A guide of sample

activities using the ST Math Creature Mat to build
number sense.

ST Math Creature Board: A creature board highlighting

some of the characters from the ST Math games. This
board can be used to explore math concepts.

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 Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade Games to Play at Home
This is a collection of games that can be done with third, fourth or fifth-grade students. A direction sheet is
provided for each activity. This outlines the activity, specifies how to play, and offers information around
vocabulary words and questions family members can ask to promote thinking. All of the activities are
designed for families and children to play together.

Activity Name Materials Needed Key Idea(s)

Adding, subtracting
Final Countdown • Deck of Cards
and multiplying
• 3 game pieces per player to be used as Multiplication Chips
whole numbers

Adding and
Five for • Deck of cards subtracting whole
Twenty-Five numbers

• Tic-Tac-Toe boards. You will need to print the board or

Traffic Light
make your own. Logic
Tic-Tac-Toe • Red, yellow and green color tiles

• Dara game board. You will need to print the board or make
Dara your own. Logic
• 12 small game pieces per player

• Two paper clips

Multiplication • Two different color chips or game pieces Multiplying one-digit
Connect Four numbers
• Game board. You must print the game board.

Equivalent Equivalent
Fraction • 1 deck of Equivalent Fraction cards. You must print the cards. fractions
Concentration

• 1 set of fraction cards. You must print the fraction cards. Adding and
Number Line
• Number line for each player
Fraction Bingo subtracting fractions
• 4 centimeter cubes for each player

• 1 set of fraction cards. You must print the fraction cards.

• Number line 0 to 2 for each player. You may print the number Adding and
Race to 2 subtracting fractions
line of make your own.
• 1 small game marker for each player

JiJi Sudoku • JiJi Sudoku game boards. You must print the game boards
and JiJi cards. Logic

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 Final Countdown
For 2 to 4 players

Supplies:
• Deck of cards
• 3 game pieces per player to be used as Multiplication Chips

How to Play:
1. Shuffle the cards.
2. Deal out 4 cards per player.
3. Place the remaining cards in the middle face down.
4. Player One places a card from their hand face up in the center and subtracts the value from 100.
(For example, Player One plays a 7 and says 93.) They take the top face-down card to replace the
card they played.
5. Player Two places a card from their hand face up on top of the first card, subtracts the value of their
card from the new number, and takes a card from the face-down pile. (For example, Player Two plays
a 10 and says 83.)
6. As play continues, each player adds a card to the pile and states the new difference.
7. After playing their card, each player picks the top face down card from the center deck to replace
the card they played.

Multiplication Chips:
• Each player gets 3 Multiplication Chips which they can play when it’s their turn. The chips change
the value of a card.
• The player can use a chip to multiply their played card by 3 or 5. For example, a 6 card played with
a hip means the player can subtract 18 or 30.

Aces — 1
Jacks — Double the previous card played
Queens — Wild Card (can be played as any other card in the deck)
Kings — 0
All others — Face value (2 to 10)

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 Five for Twenty-Five

For 2 - 4 Players
Ace =1
2-10 = face value
Supplies: Jack = 11
• Deck of cards
+ + − − Queen = 12
King = 13

The Object of the Game:

Have a hand of five cards that total 25 using addition and subtraction.

How to Play:

1. Deal each player five cards.

2. The remaining cards are placed in the center of the group with one card turned up beside the deck.
3. Players take turns picking up and discarding one card. They may take the face-up card or the top card
in the stack and discard one of their cards to the face-up stack.
4. When a player has a hand totaling 25 using all five cards, they will call out “25.” That player wins if they
can successfully show how they made 25.

Traffic Lights Tic-Tac-Toe

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adapted from nrich.

For 2 Players

Supplies:
• Tic-Tac-Toe boards
• Red, yellow, and green color tiles

How to Play:

1. Players take turns placing or replacing a tile on the Tic-Tac-Toe board.

2. Only a red tile can be placed in an empty space (cell).
3. A yellow tile replaces a red tile.
4. A green tile replaces a yellow tile. Nothing replaces a green tile.
5. Players can make any possible play in any cell.
6. The winner is the player who places a tile to make 3 same color tiles in a row (across, up and down,
or diagonally).

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 Traffic Lights Tic-Tac-Toe
Tic-Tac-Ten
Game
Game Board
Board

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Game Setup Blue wins! horiz
Dara 4 rocks per player
For 2 players Empty board

The Object of the Game:

• Be the first to capture 10 of your opponent’s game pieces

Supplies:
• Dara game board DARA Phase
1. Place
• 12 small game pieces per player
How to win
How to Play: Be the first to Players
rocks on
Phase 1: Place Pieces capture 10 of your
opponent’s rocks.
1. Players take turns placing their game pieces on empty squares.
2. Avoid placing more than three pieces in a horizontal or vertical row.
Having more than 3 pieces of the same color in a row is not allowed at
2. Avoid
any time. than th
zontal o
Phase 2: Move and Capture Pieces
Having m
3. Once all the pieces have been placed on the board, players take turns
moving one of their pieces one space horizontally or vertically, but of the sa
NOT diagonally. not allow
4. If a player cannot move, their turn is skipped. Game Setup
5. 12 rocks
To capture, a player makes a new horizontal or vertical row of 3 of their
pieces.
per player Phase
6. When a new row is made, that player can remove any one of the
opponent’s pieces from the game.
7.
Empty board
Only one piece can be captured per move, even if multiple rows of 3 are
3. Move
tally or
created with one move.
empty s
8. Each row of three pieces can be reformed only once by moving one piece
out and back in to capture another piece.
Once al
placed o
ers take
of their r
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NOT dia

If a play
her turn

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Dara

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 Multiplication Connect Four

For 2 Players

Supplies:
• Two paper clips
• Two different color chips or game pieces
Multiplication Connect Four
How to Play:
1. Player One places a paper clip on a number on the bottom strip.
Two Players
2. Player Two places a paper clip on a number on the bottom strip, multiplies the two numbers, and places
Multiplication Connect Four board
their piece on that number (product) on the board.
Two paper clips
3.Two
Player One
different moves
color one
chips or paper clip, multiplies the two numbers, and places their piece on that number
markers
(product) on the board.
4.How to continues
Play Play until one player has 4 of their pieces in a row, on the board, without any of the opponent’s
markers in between their four markers (across, up and down, or diagonal).
1. Player One places a paper clip on a number on the bottom strip.
5. The first player with four pieces in a row wins.
2. Player Two places a paper clip on a number on the bottom strip, multiplies the two numbers, and places their marker on that
number (product) on the board.
3. Player One moves one paper clip, multiplies the two numbers, and places their marker on that number (product) on the board.
4. Play continues until one player has 4 of their markers in a row, on the board, without any of the opponent’s markers in between
their four markers. (across, up and down, or diagonal)
5. The firster with four markers in a row wins.

 Examples


Non-Examples

adapted from Marilyn Burn’s Pathways

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 Equivalent Fraction Concentration

For 2 - 4 Players

Supplies:
• 1 deck of Equivalent Fractions cards

How to Play:
1. Shuffle the cards and place them face down in an array.
2. Players take turns flipping two cards face up.
3. If the numbers on the cards are equivalent, the player keeps those cards.
4. If the numbers are not equivalent, the cards are turned face down.
5. The player plays until they do not have an equivalent match.
6. Play continues until all cards are removed.
7. The winner is the player with the most cards.

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 Equivalent
Cut out cards Fraction Concentration

1 2 1 2
2 2 3 3
3 1 2 3
3 4 4 4
4 1 2 3
4 6 6 6
4 5 6 2
6 6 6 8
4 6 8 2
8 8 8 12
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 Equivalent Fraction Concentration

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 Number Line Fraction Bingo

For 2 to 4 Players

Supplies:
• 1 set of fraction cards, cut apart
• Number line for each player
• 4 centimeter cubes for each player

How to Play:

1. Shuffle cards and place face down in the center.

2. Each player places their centimeter cubes on various numbers on their number line. (They can place
more than one cube on the same number.)
3. Players take turns flipping over two fraction cards at a time. Each player can decide to add or subtract
the numbers on the cards. If their sum or difference is a number that they have a cube on, they get to
remove the cube. If they have more than one cube on a number they can only remove one of the cubes.
4. When a player has removed all of their cubes, they say, “Bingo!” and win the game.

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 Cut out cards
Number Line Fraction BINGO

1 2 1 2 3
2 2 3 3 3
1 2 3 4 1
4 4 4 4 6
2 3 4 5 6
6 6 6 6 6
1 2 3 4 5
12 12 12 12 12
6 7 8 9 10
12 12 12 12 12
11 12 1 1 1
12 12 4 6 12
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Number Line Fraction BINGO
Cut out number lines Number Line Bingo

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

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 Race to 2

For 2 - 4 Players

Supplies:
• 1 set of fraction cards
• Number line 0 to 2 for each player
• 1 small game marker for each player

How to Play:

1. Shuffle cards and place face down in the center.

2. Each player places their marker on 0
3. Player One flips over one fraction card and moves that value to the right on the number line.
4. Play continues with each player in turn selecting a card and moving that value to the right on their
number line.
5. If the selected number results in a number greater than 2, the player subtracts the value and moves to
the left of their position on the number line.
6. The winner is the first player to land on 2.

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0 to 2 Number Line

0 2

0 2

0 2

0 2

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Race to 2
Cut cardsƒ”†•
—–‘—– apart.

1 2 1 2 3
    
2 2 3 3 3
1 2 3 4 1
    
4 4 4 4 6
2 3 4 5 6
    
6 6 6 6 6
1 2 3 4 5
    
12 12 12 12 12
6 7 8 9 10
    
12 12 12 12 12
11 12 Lose
Lose Draw
Draw Draw
Draw
  Your
Your

Another
Another

Another
Another

12 12 Turn
Turn Card
Card Card
Card

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 JiJi Sudoku
Difficulty Level: Medium

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 JiJi Sudoku
Difficulty Level: Medium
Puzzle pieces

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 JiJi Sudoku
Difficulty Level: Challenge

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 JiJi Sudoku
Difficulty Level: Challenge
Puzzle pieces
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 Easy Medium

Medium Hard

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