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Working with your child on educational math games is very important and easy to accomplish.  You can reinforce math concepts throughout your day easily.  Here are 15 easy activities to incorporate math into your childs day.  I learned these from my sons school and I think they are terrific!  Many of these are for  4-7 year olds, but you can certainly adjust them for younger kids.

15 Educational Math Games

1. Gather a small group of objects.  Then divide them into equal groups of 2, 3 and 4
2. Tell your child this word problem, and have them try to figure out the different possibilities. Sarah, Jan and Joe are lining up to go on a trip.  What are all the ways they could line up?
3. Play a game of what number is one more, one less.  Try to use the biggest #’s you can.
4. Name 5 things that are unlikely and likely to happen today
5. What is something you want to be the 1st to do?
6. Record the number 10 in tally marks and write it in words.
7. Play a game what is half of a number Ex.  What is half of 2?
8. Play a game what is double a number? Ex. What is double 2?
9. Count how many days are left until (you decide- a birthday, school starts, a holiday) school starts
10. Pick a two digit number, what is the sum of that number? Ex. 24 = 6
11. How many combinations can you make with 2 pairs of pants and three colors of shirts?
12. Count backward from 10 to 1, from 25 to 15.
13. Put these in order from smallest to largest and then from largest to smallest: minute, week, day, hour, year
14. Make an even trade with coins:  What can you trade for 1 dollar, 1 quarter, 1 dime and one nickel.
15. What comes after the number 12? 23? 66? 75?