Use an empty egg carton to create this math game. On the bottom of the cups of an egg carton, write different numbers. Place two objects, such as coins or beans, inside the egg carton. To play, children shake the egg carton, open it up and add together the two numbers printed on the bottom of the cups that they objects landed on. Have children write down the sum and add the subsequent sums to the preceding sums. The first child to get a total of 50 wins the game.
To make your own math bingo game, you'll need card stock and a marker. Draw grids on the card stock, and in each box of the grids write the answer to math problems: sums, differences, products or quotients. To make the cards durable, laminate them. On pieces of scrap paper, write the problems that correspond to the answers printed on the bingo cards; these will be the call cards. To play, randomly select call cards, read the math problems printed on them and if players have the answers on their bingo cards, they mark them off with a bingo chip. The first player to cover a vertical, diagonal or horizontal line wins.
Index cards and a marker are all you need to create this math game. Use a marker to write different math problems on index cards. Spread the index cards out on the floor and provide players with a bean bag. To play, children toss a bean bag onto a card and then have to answer the math problem printed on the card. If the player answers the problem correctly, the card is removed and the player is awarded a point; if she is incorrect, the card remains on the floor and the next player takes a turn. The child with the most points wins the game.
Use this game to teach the concepts of greater than, less than and equal to. Write individual numbers on index cards. To play, shuffle the cards and deal seven cards to each player; place the remaining cards in a face-down pile. Players flip over a card in their hand, and the person with the higher card takes the two cards. If the cards that are revealed are equal, the children take a card from the face-down pile and flip it over. Whoever has the higher card takes the flipped over cards. The game ends when all of the cards have been used, and the winner is the person with the most cards.