This math number game got me really excited.

I had created this dice game for my kindergarten and even nursery students many years ago.

I had it in a handwritten form and I really wanted to share it with you online.

However,, I knew that if I took picture of it it wouldn’t be so clear so I played around with creating it on my computer.

First I created it with Microsoft publisher then I had to figure out how to get it into a jpeg format so I could upload it.

I finally figure it out as you can see and if you are really interested in how I did it, leave a comment and I’ll explain it, otherwise I’ll just going to explaining how this game is used.

As I’ve explained in the past, I think  every activity with math and numbers has to have something concrete to work with.

When children are beginning to learn basic math skills like numbers, one of the concepts they are learning is that each numeral stands for the amount.

Example: 3 may stand for 3 apples or 3 people or 3 ice creams.

One really fun activity that I think I got from another teacher when I was in Bank Street College is the game above.

Directions for game:

1. Each child get a dice and rolls the die
2. Whatever number is comes to, he or she has to count the dots on the die and go over to the number on the chart that it corresponds to and put an x in the box right above the numeral
3. S/he then rolls the die again and repeats the process
4. The idea is to see which number gets rolled the most
5. The first column that has xxx’s all the way up to the top is the winning number and the child gets to put that number in the winning box at the top

The children love this game. They can play it over and over again and can be done with individual children and with a  whole group.

If you are setting up a math center than his is a great place  to put this game.

You can find out more about setting up a math center in the post making math fun.

Leave the sheets on the table or area with some dice so the children can use them when they are using the center.

Most children in the early childhood years are capable of this game.

You can create this yourself simple on the computer or by hand as I did so many years ago.

If you are copying from my image just realize that I took a screen shot and there is some little marking on the image that doesn’t belong here, just ignore it.

Enjoy!