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Fractions with color tiles.  Allows students to record their findings on graph paper.  Make a game of it by trading papers, and allowing the other student to attempt to build the other student's fraction bar without peeking at the answer.

I made a copy of this activity. It's simple yet effective (and I have a set of colored plastic tiles that I only use when discussing area, so this is a great additional use for them.)

I would modify this idea to include nickels and quarters also.  The students add one penny for each day.  When ten pennies accumulate, a dime is substituted.  Perhaps they add a nickel for each rainy day until five nickels accumulate (and a quarter is substituted.)  We would skip count by fives and tens (depending on what we have on our piggy) until we can total our amount.  Each day we will accumulate more of each.

This activity helps students to practice solving proportions.  STudents will make fractions out of playing cards and then practice making them equivalent and solving the proportion.

This activity can be adapted to practice basic facts, identifying simple polygons, or finding the meaning of fractions. The game involves rolling a die and landing on a marker.  Each player must either solve a problem on the marker or answer a question in a cell to move forward.

In this activity students are to compare fractions and capture/eat the most pizzas.

In this game students roll a dice and depending on the number they rool they put that many chips in a cup.  At the end of each round the students must count up their chips and winners must put a 20% "winner's tax" back into the cup for the next game.

In this game 2-3 players will work to find place value and sum using dice.

In this activity students will practice identifying complementary and supplementary angles.  Students will add the two values drawn and determine whether they are complementary or supplementary.

In this game the students must roll a dice and add the numbers together, then they must select a material that is that number in length.  The first student to reach exactly 100 cm wins.

This activity will help students find perimeter and area.  Students will draw a card from a bag and then use a colored pencil to draw that shape.  After time, students may flip or rotate their figures to fit on the board but figures may not overlap.  This activity makes students pay attention to precise angles and makes them think critically about a shapes sides and angles when rotating or flipping.

In this activity students will practice multiplying decimals.  Students will cut out dominoes and use each domino to create a decimal number  (ie 2 dots on one side and three on the other equals 2.3 or 3.2).  Next students will draw another domino and multiply the two numbers.

Students will practice comparing and ordering integers by writing two different integers in a box.  The player's partner must ask yes or no questions about the integer such as; "are both of your numbers positive?" or "Is your second number greater than 10?"

This activity allows students to practice dividing with single digit divisors.  In partners, students will practice division using playing cards.  students will draw a certain amount of cards (free choice) and divide the the number each player's game piece is on.  Each player is to be checking the other player's division with a calculator.

This activity allows students to practice identifying multiplication facts with flashcards without the boring "drill and kill" method.

In this activity students will practice adding two-, three-, and four-digit numbers.  Player's take turns adding numbers that they land on after rolling a dice.  Each player will also take turns checking his or her partner's answers on a calculator.

Using the game board students will practice rounding whole numbers to the nearest 10,100, and 1,000. Each opponent takes turns reading a question and then choosing a number to round to the nearest 10, 100, or 1,000.  The answer is to be checked by the opponent.

This is a fun activity in which students must understand place value to the hundred millions.  In this activity students hide their recording sheets and draw a number.  The student who draws a number must announce which place value he or she put that digit.  Then, the other partner must copy that down.  Each partner alternates the plays until they have filled in each place value.  At the end, the teams must see if their numbers match and they will score accordingly. This game forces both partners to be working at all times so not just one person is doing all the work!

"Name That Fraction-Number-Shape board"