Find the Missing DigitCollect It!Download Activity Very poor Poor Good Very good Excellentbased on15ratingsSee more activities in:Second Grade,Place ValueOkay, identifying place value isn't as fun as eating ice cream, but with a few index cards and a competitive spirit, it can be disguised as play! This game, which challenges your child to find the missing digit in a four-digit number, will strengthen your kids understanding of thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones. After a few rounds of play, your child will be identifying place value like nobody's business!What You Need: 40 index cards. Use them to create four cards for each digit from 0-9 (for example, make four cards with the number 0, four with the number 1, etc.) Place value chart showing Thousands, Hundreds, Tens, and OnesWhat You Do:1. Give each player a set of 20 number cards. Make sure each person has two of each number. Review the place value chart with your child.2. To start playing the game say a 4-digit number aloud. Take three of your number cards and place each of them in the corresponding place value square. One square will be empty. The point is that your child will have to figure out which one is missing. For example, if you say the number 1,236 and place cards in the thousands, hundreds, and one positions, she would have to figure out that the 3 was missing from the tens position.3. Say the number again. Have your child complete the number by placing one of her number cards, the one showing the missing digit, on the empty place value square. Have your child read the place value of the missing digit. Ask your child to read the complete number. For every missing number she finds, she gets one point.4. Switch roles.5. After youve played this game a couple of times with only one digit missing, try gradually increasing the number of missing digits. Before long, your child will want to supply all four digits--prepare to be happily trumped!

Play Ice Cream Addition!Collect It!

Download Activity Very poor Poor Good Very good Excellentbased on368ratingsSee in slideshow:Addition and SubtractionKnowing basic math facts is important for future math success, and there's no such thing as too much practice. Looking for another way to get your child learning his basic addition facts? Play Ice Cream Addition! Here's a math game to keep you and your child school cool during this hot summer. All you need is dice, the ice cream worksheet, and some crayons! Roll the dice, add up the terms, and color in all the pieces of your ice cream cone to win.Ice Cream Addition is a great game to play in pairs or small groups, and can help your child learn some math vocabulary while boosting his basic addition skills.What You Need: Dice Pencil Blank paper Crayons Ice Cream WorksheetTerms to Know: Addend: the numbers to be added Sum: the answer you get by adding numbers togetherWhat You Do:1. Print enough copies of the Ice Cream Worksheet so that every player has one.2. Determine who goes first. The first player will roll the dice. On a blank sheet of paper, the player will then write the addition problem out using the numbers he rolled as the addends. If he rolled a 3 and 4, for instance, he would write the problem this way: 3+ 4 = 7.3. The first player will then color the sum on the ice cream cone. In the example 3 + 4 = 7, 7 is the sum and would be colored on the cone.4. The next player rolls the dice to determine his addends, writes the addition problem, and colors in his sum.5. Continue playing with each player taking turns. If someone rolls a sum that is already colored on his sheet, he loses that turn. Try to use the math vocabulary as you play this game and see how quickly you learn these new words.6. The first player to sum up all his problems and color in his entire ice cream cone wins the game!Celebrate by eating some real, delicious ice cream for a treat!

Play Pattern Hopscotch!Collect It!

Download Activity Very poor Poor Good Very good Excellentbased on9ratingsSee in slideshow:12 Clever Ways to Refresh 2nd Grade Math SkillsCreating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull. But creating patterns with hopscotch? Way cool! Get your child's game on, and give her some math practice in the process. While developing pattern skills, students build a firm foundation for algebraic thinking. Heres a fun at-home activity that will have your child recognizing, describing, and extending patterns using hopscotch squares.What You Need: Chalk Sidewalk or driveway StoneWhat You Do:1. Using chalk, draw a series of six connecting hopscotch boxes on the sidewalk or on a driveway. In the first four boxes, write a series of four numbers showing a pattern of counting by 2s. (For example, 2,4,6,8). Write one number in each box.2. Have your child extend the pattern by filling in the empty boxes with numbers that extend this sequence. To demonstrate the pattern, ask your child to hop on each of the boxes in the series, saying each number aloud.3. This time, ask your child to draw two more sets of six to eight boxes. Fill in each set of boxes with a series of four numbers that show a pattern, such as counting by 5s, counting by 10s, decreasing by 1s, or decreasing by 2s. Do you have a math whiz? You can also experiment with counting by 3, 4, or 6...this lays the foundation for multiplication.4. Although the boxes may look non-traditional, the game of hopscotch is still timelessly fun. Make your boxes...and then hop on. In teacher terms, you're doing "kinesthetic" learningusing the body to integrate key intellectual skills and knowledge. In kid terms, you'll be having tons of fun!BySally Ann StanleySally is an experienced educator, with over 14 years of teaching experience. Over the last ten years she has created educational materials, including ancillary, textbook, and test items, for Grades K-8 for major educational publishers.Updated onJul 3, 2013Printable Workbooks from Education.comFind a printable workbook to go along with this fun activity.