Math Games

This week students will learn two more math games that they can play if they have extra time during the school year.  The first game is CHANCE, which is similar to the game Farkle. We like playing this game in fifth grade because it gives students practice in mental calculations, adding and subtracting across decade and century numbers, and even into the thousands.  It helps with Math Practice standards such as thinking about numbers in many ways, use what I know to solve problems, and discover and use shortcuts.  Here are the rules we use at school if you'd like to play at home. 

Chance:
You need to make points on each roll in order to keep
playing. You may keep rolling as long as you've made points. If you roll and the dice you just rolled didn't make you any points, you crash, which means you've lost all the points for that turn. How to make points:
1=100 and 5=50, these are the only two dice that can
make you points alone.
If you roll three of the same number
at the same time they equal that number
times 100, except 1 which is 1000.
2 2 2=200 If you roll 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
3 3 3=300 ALL IN THE SAME ROLL that equals
4 4 4=400 1500 points!
5 5 5=500
6 6 6=600 You need 10,000 points to win the game.
1 1 1=1000


The other game we will play is Hot 100. Although this game is pretty simple, being able to write numbers to 100, we will differentiate it as the year goes by integrating bigger numbers, fractions and decimals. Here are the directions for that: