Here’s another simple little game to practice those math facts …
Addition Memory – Take the Aces-nines out of a deck of cards (to make it easier and/or quicker just take 2 of each). Shuffle the cards and lay them face down and play like regular memory but instead of finding matches you are trying to find two cards that total 10. I learned about this game from the Right Start math curriculum that we have and it suggests that the child uses the abacus if needed. They have this suggestion to deter the children from counting on their fingers.
Tags: card game, math, Right Start
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That’s a great idea. I wonder if substituting one crutch for another has any merit. Why are we so opposed to fingers and so “okay” with an abacus I wonder!
I remember seeing a video of Asian kids learning to do very complex math very quickly using abacuses (abaci???). The amazing part, though, was when they took away the abaci… the kids were still able to do the complex math quickly IN THEIR HEADS!
Here it is… I found it on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIiDomlEjJw