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Play Smart Dice Classroom Pack

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Our patent pending PlaySmart Dice™ dice system targets harder to learn math operations with fun and original games. PlaySmart Dice™ are configured to develop instant recognition of persistently difficult number combinations, which are essential for higher levels of academic achievement.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Content Area:

Math

Play Time:

10 min.

Tiny Polka Dot

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Tiny Polka Dot cards come in six suits, each with eleven cards representing the numbers from 0 to 10. Each suit uses a different representation. These are Ten Frames, Big and Little Dots, Circles, Doubles Plus One, Numerals, and Dice Patterns.

Grade Level:

Primary

Content Area:

Math

Play Time:

15 min.

Calculino

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Help Calculino to take four blue, four yellow and four red starfishes on board as quickly as possible to begin the long journey through the ocean. A lot of concentration, strategy and mathematical knowledge is required.

Grade Level:

Primary

Content Area:

Math

Play Time:

10 min.

Sum Swamp

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Math becomes an adventure with this addition and subtraction game that takes kids on a journey through Sum Swamp. They’ll make their way over the crocodile shortcut and through the endless loop by adding and subtracting the numbers on the dice.

Grade Level:

Primary

Content Area:

Math

Play Time:

10 min.

Cupcakes!

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A New Tumble Math Short!
Watch as two monsters learn to count cupcakes using subtraction and addition skills.

Domino Addition

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It's time to spread out your dominoes and learn how to add! Learning to add is fun when you use dominoes. This bold, colorful counting book shows you how.

First learn how to use simple addition to find the total number of dots, from zero to twelve, on each domino. Then see if you can find the dominoes with each total hidden in the pictures. With a simple but imaginative approach, Lynette Long has created a fun-filled counting book sure to appeal to even the most reluctant math students.

How Many Jelly Beans?

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How many jelly beans are enough? How many are too many? Aiden and Emma can’t decide. Is 10 enough? How about 1,000? That’s a lot of jelly beans. But eaten over a whole year, it’s only two or three a day. This giant picture book offers kids a fun and easy way to understand large numbers. Starting with 10, each page shows more and more colorful candies, leading up to a giant fold-out surprise—ONE MILLION JELLY BEANS! With bright illustrations and an irresistible extra-large format, How Many Jelly Beans? makes learning about big numbers absolutely scrumptious!

Subtraction at School

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Uses bright photographs and simple statements about specific objects in a schoolroom to teach young students subtraction.

Piñata Fever

In this math game you’re the host of a crazy piñata party. To keep the party pumping you need to keep the candy jar topped up – and the only way to get more candy is by smashing piñatas!

These colourful, goody-stuffed toys descend slowly from the top of the play area. You must move quickly to intercept them by adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers. Once in position, smash open the piñatas to release their tasty treats! Think fast because if you run out of candy, the party’s over!

Whole Number Subtraction (Online Textbook)

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Have you ever seen seals at the zoo? They are fascinating animals.

Jonah loves working with the seals. In fact, he learns more and more about them every day. One day when he arrived at work, Jonah discovered that there had been a new baby seal pup born the night before. The workers at the zoo had weighed the new pup and his mother just that morning. The mother seal had weighed 157 pounds when she had been weighed alone. The combined weight of both the Mother and pup was 171 pounds.

What did the new pup weigh?

Subtraction

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