Card game for math facts

I found this link when looking through some "OLD" stuff (my newsletter 10 years ago... in this Internet day and age, 10 years seems like an eternity ago!). It's a neat little "game" for math facts:

http://littleblueschool.blogspot.com/2007/09/math-card-game-for-addition-subtraction.html

To be more precise, it is a  way for kids to write some of their own math problems using a deck of cards.  😃 But it can definitely FEEL like a game for little ones!

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Probability games

Here's a REALLY NEAT collection of interactive activities & games for basic probability concepts. Great for middle school!

For example, you get to experiment what happens to the probability distribution when a die is biased. Just roll the die 100s or 1000s of times at one push of a button and see the distribution. In another activity you need to figure out IF a die is biased or not.

Then the collection includes games that are based on the probabilities of obtaining different sums or differences with two dice.

Or, you get to fix a match box machine that is producing too much variation in the number of matches per box. First you take lots of samples and analyze the situation using boxplots, and then you adjust the machine. That's how things are actually done in real-life quality control.

 Here's the link again: Interactive probability games. Check it out!

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2048 game - doubling numbers - addictive!

Here's a fun little game that I really liked! It's called the 2048 game.  It is very simple, yet fun.  And it's addictive, I'd say. :)

Slide the tiles using the arrow keys, and if the neighboring numbers are the same, the number will double. (ALL the tiles slide when you press any of the arrow keys, in that direction). The numbers keep doubling... can you reach tile 2048? I haven't yet!

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The best math card game ever

It's summertime, in my heart!!!!!!!

And here's a GREAT math game to play in summertime - or any time, really:

The game that is worth 1000 worksheets
 

This game adapts itself to a GREAT variety of math topics: simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, many operations, integers... Have fun!

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