{"id":1618,"date":"2018-05-13T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2018-05-07T21:21:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T21:21:47","slug":"free-elementary-math-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2018\/05\/13\/free-elementary-math-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Elementary Math Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Teachers<\/strong>&#8230;Looking for a break from testing stress and your usual math games?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parents<\/strong>&#8230;looking for math activities for the summer break?<\/p>\n<p>I suggest you investigate my website <a href=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamerica\/math-games\/?preview_id=228&amp;preview_nonce=260d73264c&amp;_thumbnail_id=-1&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downloads<\/a> for a list of more than 20 easy-to-play, mathematically-sound games. I&#8217;ve created individual and partner games that kids may play in 5-15 minute time slots. Each requires readily available materials such as dice and playing cards. All have options to extend play or add more challenges.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1650\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/FourMinuteCheck-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/>Here are samples of what you&#8217;ll find:<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Strategy Games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heading Home &#8211; a plan to reach one of 4 home bases<\/li>\n<li>1, 2, 3, 4 Cover-Up &#8211; selecting number combos to cover the board<\/li>\n<li>Target Practice &#8211; a group activity to discover an unknown number<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Addition-Subtraction Games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Math Sandwiches &#8211; making 2-card combos of basic facts<\/li>\n<li>Keep it 10 &#8211; add\/subtract numbers to keep a &#8217;10&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Countdown &#8211; practice adding\/subtracting 1-10 facts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Summer Math Packets by grade levels K-2 and 3-5<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers&#8230;Looking for a break from testing stress and your usual math games? Parents&#8230;looking for math activities for the summer break? I suggest you investigate my website downloads for a list of more than 20 easy-to-play, mathematically-sound games. I&#8217;ve created individual and partner games that kids may play in 5-15 minute time slots. Each requires readily\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2018\/05\/13\/free-elementary-math-games\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,45,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engaging-students","category-free-resources","category-math-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}