Six games for practicing addition facts to 20, each on its own page with its rules at the top. Page 1, Addition Race, is a board game for 2 to 4 players: roll a die, move, and say the sum on the space; a partner checks it with the answer key. Page 2, Race to the Top, needs only two dice and crayons: add the dice and color a box over the sum, and see which sum reaches the top first. Page 3, Spin and Add, has two paper clip spinners (4 to 9 and 5 to 10) and a board where each sum shows up as often as it can be spun; players color sums and try for four in a row. Page 4, Bump, adds three dice: players cover sums with counters and bump each other off. Page 5 is 20 fact cards for Bigger Sum Wins, a card game like War. Page 6 is 20 cards from 0 to 10 with ten frames, for Memory and Go Fish games where a pair makes 10.
Teach one game at a time to the whole class, playing it on the board against the class, then use it at a math center for the rest of the week. Print the board games and spinner boards on card stock, or slide them into sheet protectors and use dry-erase markers in place of crayons. Keep the cards in a zip bag with the rules page. The answer key for the board game and the cards lets a partner check sums without a teacher.
Play Race to the Top or Bump with dice from a board game at home. Ask your child to say how they added: "8 and 5: I made 10 with 2 from the 5, then 3 more is 13." Play Bigger Sum Wins with the cards, or with a real deck (aces are 1, take out the face cards) by turning over two cards each and adding them.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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Six printable addition games for 1st grade, for practicing facts to 20 with a partner or a small group. Addition Race is a board game: roll a die, move, and say the sum on your space. Race to the Top is a dice game: roll two dice, add and color a box over the sum. Spin and Add uses two paper clip spinners and a four-in-a-row board. In Bump, students roll three dice, add, and bump each other off the board. Bigger Sum Wins is a card game like War, and the Make Ten cards play Memory and Go Fish. Every game has its rules on the page and comes in color and in black and white. Answer keys for the board game and the cards.
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