Hack It Make It Take It – STEMAZing Systems Thinking

Get in the Game from The Tech Interactive

A great lesson from If/Then that allows game designers (3rd-8th grade) to create a game in 90 minutes. Site includes student handouts and teacher guide.

#MicDropMath Card Tricks for Young Mathematicians

Key Question How can we use math to entertain our family and friends with card tricks they think are magic? Learning Objectives Children will be curious about… learn the steps for performing two different self-working card tricks practice counting to 10 learn pairs of numbers that add up to ten Materials A deck of regular…

Venn Right

Don’t do a Venn wrong. Have students use this Venn diagram which calls out the attributes and values to help identify similarities and differences. Virtual Google Slide Version of Venn Right (make a copy to use)

The Mammoth Game from Creative Learning Exchange

In this activity, teams of students play a dice and graphing game to track the population growth and decline of a herd of twenty mammoths. By changing variables and probabilities with the dice, students can explore theories of extinction and speculate about which factors contributed to the wooly mammoths’ demise. Potential interdisciplinary links include science…

#MicDropMath Playing Card Tricks

There are card tricks which are slight of hand and card tricks which rely on the discrete mathematics inherent to a regular deck of cards. These card tricks fall into the latter category and are called self-working. Don’t worry, you do not need to understand discrete mathematics to learn the algorithm for performing these #MicDropMath…

On the Dot

On the Dot reinforces spatial relations and visual discrimination. See spots like never before! Try to arrange four transparent squares so they perfectly match the pattern shown on the dots card. Flip, rotate, and overlap the squares to make the “spot on” copy.

Blink

BLINK is the lightning-fast game where two players race to be the first to play all of their cards. How fast can you match? NOTE: BLINK can be played using IOTA cards!

Iota

IOTA reinforces spatial relations, visual discrimination, and strategic thinking. Look, see, play and score… a lot! Add cards to a grid, making sure the attributes of color, shape, and number are either all the same or all different across the line. Sounds easy but as the grid expands, so do the possibilities.

Konane

Konane is a traditional game from Hawaii which is quite simple to learn but takes a lifetime to master! Start small on a 5×6 gameboard and work up from there.

13 Pennies

13 Pennies is a fantastic strategy game which can take lots of twists and turns. Pennies (smashed or not) can be replaced with any bits and pieces – bingo chips, rocks, pieces of paper, etc.