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STEM: Math Fun beginning math concepts for kids
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Chutes and Ladders
This classic game challenges kids to scramble to the top of the gameboard without slip-sliding down! All the while, they are learning to recognize numbers and count to 100.
2-4 PLAYERS 3 & UP 30 MIN
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Clumsy Thief
A hilarious, fast-paced card game reinforcing double digit addition skills. Add money card of various values, while trying to collect the most money. Get money by making or stealing money stacks that add up to $100. Lose money if your stack is stolen.
Try Clumsy Thief in the Candy Shop for practice adding to 20.
2-6 PLAYERS 8 & UP 15 MIN
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Exact Change
Cha-ching! Learn to count money and convert currency through hands on activity. The goal is to be first to play all of your cards. You can discard cards by matching the color of the last card played, by matching the currency value (play a penny on a penny), or by making exact change.
2-6 PLAYERS 5 & UP 15 MIN
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Go Fish
“Do you have any 4’s?” “No…. Go fish!” Go Fish is often one of the first card game many kids play, and it helps children learn about numbers, counting, pairs, and sets.
2-6 PLAYERS 4 & UP 20 MIN
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Hi Ho Cherry-O
Have a blast picking fruit from the trees and filling your buckets. But watch out for hazards: a pesky fruit-stealing bird, a distracting dog, and a spilled basket. A fruity fun way to sharpen kids' early math skills: counting, addition, and subtraction.
2-4 PLAYERS 3 & UP 10 MIN
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I Sea 10
Strengthen number sense and addition skills. Make combinations of undersea-themed number cards to add up to 10, and the player with the most 10’s wins. But watch out for troublesome sharks!
2-4 PLAYERS 6 & UP 15 MIN
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Loose Change
The buck stops here in this game of counting and coin recognition. Each player is dealt a hand of cards that includes nickels, dimes, quarters, and half dollars. The object? Be the first to have a pile of cards add up to exactly one dollar. Be careful, though. If the coin card you play breaks the bank and exceeds the value of one dollar, you go bust.
2-6 PLAYERS 6 & UP 20 MIN
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Mobi
Play numbered tiles and symbols to create simple equations in this Scrabble-esque game. Just spread the tiles out on any flat surface and see who can make the best equation "pods" and get rid of all of their tiles first. Overlap equations by sharing common tiles and balance each side. The fastest player wins!
1-6 PLAYERS 6 & UP 10 MIN
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Money Bags
Dash for cash! Collect, count, and combine coins as you clink and clank your way to the finish line. Life-like play money makes combining different values of coins a breeze. Earn the most money to win.
2-4 PLAYERS 7 & UP 20 MIN
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Monster Sock Factory
The weather is chilly and monsters are waiting for their socks! As a worker in the busy Monster Sock Factory, help fill their orders and dispatch sock packets for all the lovely little multi-legged monsters. Learn fundamental concepts of multiplication as repeated addition, division as repeated subtraction, and multiplication tables of 1 to 9.
2-3 PLAYERS 8 & UP 30 MIN
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Number Chase
Figure out the mystery number before your opponents do! In each round a different player secretly writes down a number from 1 to 50. One at a time, the other players try to guess the number. Can you chase down the correct number first?
2-5 PLAYERS 6 & UP 15 MIN
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Pizza Fraction Fun
This mouthwatering game helps kids visually understand fraction concepts and skills using one of their favorite foods. Kids can play seven different games to practice identifying fractions, matching fraction equivalents, and performing fraction addition and subtraction by building pizzas.
2-4 PLAYERS 6 & UP VARIABLE TIME
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Rummikub
Similar to Gin Rummy, played with tiles rather than cards. The object is to combine your tiles in runs (consecutive numbers in the same color) or sets (groups of the same number). The game rolls along at a fast clip, with wild-card joker tiles adding a bit of luck to the strategy needed to win.
2-4 PLAYERS 8 & UP 60 MIN
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Secret Code 13+4
As cunning secret agents, break into a museum and use precise calculations to crack the tricky codes of the security system. Be it through addition or subtraction, multiplication or division, the numbers on the dice have to be combined so that the results coincide with the code numbers. Who will be the first to overcome all the barriers to get hold of the precious treasure?
2-4 PLAYERS 8 & UP 15 MIN
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Sum Swamp
Math becomes an adventure with this addition and subtraction game that takes kids on a journey through a challenging swamp. They’ll make their way over the crocodile shortcut and through the endless loop by adding and subtracting the numbers on the dice.
2-4 PLAYERS 5 & UP 20 MIN
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Time-Telling Game
Get kids up to speed on telling time. Players move the arms on clock faces to show the time described on cards. Learn analog and digital representations of time as well as terms like "half past" and "quarter to." Cards are color coded for the progression of skills in learning to tell time. Points are awarded for setting clocks to the correct time, as well as for correcting clocks to the specified time, making playing a reinforcement of time telling skills.
2-4 PLAYERS 5 & UP 15 MIN
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Cedar Mill Community Libraries 12505 NW Cornell Road Suite 13 Portland, Oregon 97229 503-644-0043library.cedarmill.org/
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