Today's Classroom Activities :

Travel-friendly Games

Help students create collections of travel-friendly games and activities to take along on summer trips or to pass the time on rainy days. Introduce them to tried-and-true car games like "License Plate" and "I Spy" and encourage them to create new games or adapt old favorites to life on the road.

Have your students Take a Trip with Math they'll love all the places where "Math Journeys" will take your students.

Make a Deck
Math Have each child or group of students design a set of playing cards. Designate four fruits, animals, etc. to represent the "suits." On each card, place a digit and the correct number of items. Use the cards to play memory match games, put in order from least to greatest and vice versa or separate each others' cards into like categories.

War (Grades K-1)
This classic game helps students recognize relative values of numbers. Players split a deck of cards and simultaneously flip over their top cards. The highest-value card wins the pair. If the cards have the same value, players deal an additional three cards face down and then place the fourth card face up. The card with the highest value wins all the cards from the round, including the face-down cards.