Grade Level: Middle School to early High School
Learning Goals: Developing a deeper understanding and increased fluency of numbers and operations, Improving mental math speed and accuracy
Materials:
50 Number Cards
50 Symbol Cards
8 Goal Cards
1 Timer/Stopwatch
NCTM Standards:
Reasoning with Algebra
Representation of Number and Operations
Problem Solving and Sense Making
Communication
The purpose of this math game is to help students gain a stronger understanding of numbers and order of operations and its applications in computational procedures. This activity represents operations to encourage students to visually represent equations as well as apply reasoning and problem-solving abilities to find the optimal solution to the problem given his or her constraints (or in this case, numbers and symbol cards). Students are required to use sense making to represent quantitative relationships and to look for patterns that will help improve his or her accuracy and mental math speed. Lastly, after students have played a few rounds, students are prompted to discuss with each other their thinking processes to illustrate understanding of the subject and to articulate what patterns and skills they have developed through this activity.
