Will the red, green, or yellow apple reach the top first?! This playful apple race math game has kids graphing, counting and comparing – important early math skills. It’s perfect to use as a math station, homeschool activity or morning work. If you’re looking for more ideas to add to your math station, check out our Number Formation Pack in our shop! Getting ReadyTo prepare this math game, I first printed the game board (found at the end of this post) on cardstock. I chose to laminate the game board for durability and easy reuse, however I could have also put the game board in a plastic page protector. Then, I grabbed a pencil and paper clip to use for our apple spinner and red, green and yellow pom poms to use as manipulatives. A dry erase marker, dry erase crayon or other math manipulative are a great alternative. Apple Race Math GameTo play Apple Race, kids placed a paper clip on the inside of the apple spinner and put the point of their pencil on the center of the spinner. They flicked the clip with their fingers to make it spin and marked the corresponding apple color on their graph. Kids continued spinning until one color reached the top of their graph first. I just loved that there were so many opportunities for kids to talk about math while playing this game. Some of the ways students discussed math while playing Apple Race included:
Cleaning up this game was super easy because we just cleared the pom poms off the game board and played again! Grab Your DownloadReady to have some Apple Race Math Game fun?! Just click the blue button to grab your free copy of the game and then hop over and snag our Number Formation Pack, too! The post Apple Race Math Game appeared first on Playdough To Plato. via Playdough To Plato https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/apple-race-math-game/
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ABOUT MEHi, I am Aida Turner from Brampton. I am 30 years old and I am a school teacher by profession. I love my profession. I spend mostly free time in searching different teaching methods for kids. Archives
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