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Summer Math Bingo

K-3

Directions: Cross out a box when you complete an activity.  Get BINGO when you cross out five in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Parents, please initial on the small line when your child has completed each task.  Completed BINGO cards can be entered into a schoolwide raffle in the fall!

Directions: Cross out a box when you complete an activity.  Get BINGO when you cross out five in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Parents, please initial on the small line when your child has completed each task.  Completed BINGO cards can be entered into a schoolwide raffle in the fall!

Descriptions for Bingo Activities:

Addition War: Use a deck of cards.  Give each player one half of the shuffled deck.  Players each flip over one card at the same time.  Whoever adds the numbers first gets to keep the cards.  Face cards count as 10 and aces count as one.  Whoever runs out of cards first loses the game.

Create a survey and graph the results: Come up with a question to ask several people and record the answers with tally marks.  Show the results of your survey with a bar graph, line graph, or picture graph.  Don’t forget to label the title and axes and make a key!

Go on a Shape Hunt: Go on a shape hunt around the house or in your community. What shapes can your child find? Look for circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, cubes and cylinders.

Help with Grocery Shopping: When you are at the grocery store, children can help with the cost of items. Use the scale to weigh produce, estimate costs of items, add up the cost of items for a meal, etc. Older students can plan a meal with a budget.

Home Improvement Project: Use rulers, measuring tape, or any non-standard unit of measure to paint walls, hang up a picture, string lights, or anything else you can think of!  If you are stringing up lights, work with children to estimate how many sets you will need and calculate the total number of lights used.

How to play the “21 Game”: You need two or more players, who take turns to count up from 1.  Each player can call out one, two or three consecutive numbers, before it moves to the next player to continue counting up.  The player who ends up saying “21” is out of the game.  The game continues, counting back up from 1 to 21, until there is only one person left.  They are the winner.

How to play the “Yes/No Game:  Make cards with numbers or shapes on them.  Players put a card on their forehead.  The player asks a question that can only be answered with a “yes” or “no”.  E.g. “Am I odd?” “Am I under 20?” “Do I have 4 sides?” etc.  Keep asking questions until they get the answer correct or they run out of turns.  

How to play “Fact Family” card game:  Deal a face down stack of 21 cards. Turn over 4 cards at a time.  Look for a fact family.  Make a stack of a fact family when you find it.  If you don’t find one, continue to draw one more card until you do.  Once you find a fact family, turn over more cards to have just 4 cards showing again.  The object is to have as few cards left over when you get “stuck” as possible.

How to play “Pig Dice”: Roll one die and write down the number.  Keep rolling and add the numbers rolled to get a total sum.  However, if you roll a one, you are eliminated!  The player who gets the highest sum wins!

How to play “Salute”:   You need two players and cards numbered 1-10.  Two players face each other, each person selects a numbered card and sticks it to their forehead so the other player can see it.  THe person leading the game gives a statement, such as what the sum of the two numbers is, the difference between the two, or the product of the two, etc.  Each player has to work out what number is on their own card, based on what is written on the other person’s head and the rule given.

How to play “Tens Go Fish” card game: You will need a deck of cards A-10 and Queens will be zeros. Play Go Fish, but a match is 2 cards that make a 10 (9 and 1, 8 and 2, etc.) Ask: I have ___, do you have a ___ to make 10?  I have ___. What do I need to make 10?  How do you know?

it on their forehead, so the other player can see.

Math Ball: This game will need multiple participants. Find a beach ball, and write numbers all over it. Then toss the ball back and forth with all players keeping track of the number their right thumb is nearest when catching the ball. As each player catches the ball, they should add their number to the previous number to get the highest sum. The game combines catch with mathematics to make a fun way to practice addition with your child.

Play a Strategy Game: This is a great way to spend quality time. Games that are great for this nclude Rummikub, Crazy Eights, Monopoly, Jr., Yahtzee, Chutes and Ladders, Uno and other classic board and card games. Play as teams while learning so you can talk about strategy and then move onto playing individually. Have your child make her own board game to share with the family.

Play the Game “101 Points”: To play this game, play with a partner.  Each person takes turns rolling a dice. The goal of the game is to add up numbers to reach as close to 101 as possible, but without passing this number. Continue and see which person gets closer to 101 without passing it.

Recipe: Follow the directions for a recipe. Children can help to measure ingredients.  Encourage conversation about fractions or doubling/ cutting a batch in half.

Set up a Lemonade Stand: Children can budget their materials (lemonade mix, cups, pitcher, etc), determine an appropriate price to create a profit, count money, and even come up with a business plan!

Sidewalk Chalk Math: Use sidewalk chalk to draw shapes and numbers on your driveway or the sidewalk in front of your home. Then, play a game with your children!  Call out “square” and ask your child hop to it. Then, ask your child to twirl to the “circle.” You can do this with numbers as well. Ask younger children to “get to 10” and older children to find the answer to “three plus four equals”!