Hi, Magi, Kristin and all the rabbits, There are a few other games I know of that may help with doing math in a fun way. Assuming you want numbers with which to do arithmetic operations (as compared to most of the Kadon products that deal with shapes), you might try these: * Six Disks (Kadon) - www.gamepuzzles.com/histfun2.htm#SD * Lucky Sevens (Games Above Board) - www.gamepuzzles.com/msamuel.htm#MSL * Take a Number (soon to be released by Kadon as a supplement to Leap) * Leap (Kadon)- www.gamepuzzles.com/abstrct2.htm#LP * Shut the Box (sometimes called Flip Out and other titles) * Muggins Shut the Box involves rolling two dice and using the two numbers to come up with sums or digits from 1 to 12, with flippers to flip over with each number obtained. In Muggins, roll 3 dice and manipulate the three numbers by any math operations to get totals of from 1 on up. You can find these through Google. In Leap, place number disks from 1 through 36 by turns on a 6x6 grid to form equations, criss-cross fashion like Scrabble with numbers. Six Disks (numbers 1 through 6) and Lucky Sevens (coasters numbered 1 through 7) have dozens of shapes to solve by arranging the numbers to produce either all same sums, like a magic square, or all different but consecutive sums for the rows in the figure. In Take a Number, there are 25 different themes using numbers 1 through 25 in a variety of ways on a 5x5 grid. Take a Number is a supplement to Leap, played with the same equipment. It can be played by one, two, or teams of players. Magi, send me your snailmail address and I will mail you a complimentary copy of the Take a Number book, to see whether it would work for what you are requesting for your classroom. If you have number tokens from 1 through 25, and can make a 5x5 grid, you can try out all the activities in this book. -- Kate Jones Kadon Enterprises, Inc. www.gamepuzzles.com (Also a Looney Labs Mad Lab Rabbit) -----Original Message----- From: edu-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:edu-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Magi D. Shepley Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:30 PM To: Education list Subject: [Edu] Games in the Classroom I have noticed that my students infinitely prefer playing games over doing any other type of work, except perhaps cooking activities. In the past, I've always used ordinary commercial games like Monopoly, Yahtzee, Dominoes etc, for doing math. I've also used Uno... I have a set of "boards" with the 4 arirthmetic operations on them (1 on each card). The instructions tell the students to draw one Uno card and place it in the '1' box, and then repeat, putting the 2nd card in the other box. They also get a worksheet with a table... one number in one cell, 2nd in another cell, operation in the middle, and the answer. We use the standard Uno scoring for word cards (Reverse, etc are 20, Wild cards are 50). The kids LOVE it... Does anybody know, or have you seen, similar things? The other favorite in the classroom is Monopoly. Scrabble isn't far behind, and Fluxx (though, surprisingly, Family Fluxx was not the hit with the kids I thought it would be!). I would love to find some Monopoly math that doesn't involve actually playing the game. I am aware of the Trend publication products that have Monopoly themed workbooks... but they aren't really MONOPOLY! The books use the characters, but that is about as far as it goes. I do teach kids with cognitive impairments (mental retardation), emotional disturbance, speech language impairment, etc. The beauty of the Uno math is that the kids can do it independently... and unless we're doing a group activity, I usually have the kids all working on different things because levels are so different. And, of course, we're ALWAYS trying to encourage independent work and asking for help when appropriate. Magi _______________________________________________ Edu mailing list Edu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/edu