I took my friend Kim Adsit’s advice when I made this set of math games. Her advice is to teach one game so you aren’t having to teach a new game EACH time you are working on a new skill or a new set of centers.
I made these Math Spin games because I figured it would be easy enough to teach them how to do it the first time and it would be something they could always play. I also am excited about these games because they can be played alone or with a friend. I also created them so there is a color version and black and white version for each game.
I am planning on having these spin games in a math tub each time we have a rotation. It is kind of like a roll and cover game. Once you show then how to do it once, they should be able to play the game without having a hundred questions 🙂
I also plan on showing them how to snap their own spinners in to place. These spinner are on Amazon and are pretty inexpensive. You could also do the ol’ pencil and paper-clip trick if you don’t want to have to buy something.
For this fun little demonstration, I printed off the color version of the game and slid it in a page protector.
You could always laminate it and give the kiddos and Expo marker to cross off as they spin. This little boy was playing the game independently, but it can also be played with a partner. I would just give them two different colored Expo markers so they can tell who crossed off more. The way to “win” the game is to have more X’s on the board than their partner.
Each partner could also have their own board and mark off their pictures as they spin. The player that crosses off all of the pictures first would then win.
I’m loving it already because there is almost zero teacher prep. Just print and slip. Once you teach the kids how to use the snap spinners, you don’t even have to do that!
That makes life even better.
I would love to give this away AND a set of spinners!
I love to teach my calendar math which includes the same thing each day of the week, Monday Money, Tuesday Tally, Wednesday Workout (which I use ten frames), Thursday Thinking (adding to 10 and then adding and subtracting with dice), and Friday Figuring (for patterning, and greater than/less than). The kids love it and it’s so much fun to work with a different number each day and week. When we go to full day, I’ll be so excited to start math centers to increase our math time.
My favorite math skill to teach is addition. I love that they think they are doing “big kid” math and there are so many fun ways to teach and differentiate it! These look great!
Nicole
Yay! 1000th follower! 🙂 I really enjoy teaching geometry.
What great activities!!! Perfect to start the year with and build onto through the year!!!
Forgot to write the skill!!! I like to do word problems and addition/subtraction strategies.
My favorite math skill to teach is more/less.
My favorite math skill to teach is tally marks and anything to do with geometry.
These look absolutely adorable! Very engaging. The kids will surely enjoy these!! I also enjoy teaching about both 2-D and 3-D shapes. There is so much to do with shapes and the kids enjoy this unit as well. Happy back to school time:-)
Love these spinner math games, Elizabeth! A great way to keep the kinders engaged in their learning! Linda G.
These math spinners would be incredible to use in my classroom! I know that the kids would have a great time playing and learning!
Love this game for my prek’s. Need to get me so e of those spinners.I like those ocer the paper clip/pencil!
Dina
I love teaching addition and money. So many fun things to do for these lessons.
These are perfect! My kids are so great at cooperative learning this year! (And we’re only a few weeks in!) They would love these!
Since our school (K-3) is departmentalized, including kindergarten, I teach the ELA and my teaching partner teaches the math. I do have a math center in my room that my class can enjoy during center time, and these games would be great to put in it.
I love teaching addition! Those spinners are really cool!
I love teaching math so it is hard to pick just one area. I guess it would be geometry. These spinner activities looks fantastic. Thanks for the chance to win!
~Laura
Would love to win!
I really like to teach patterns and graphing.