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Tag Archives: playful math

Coin Sorting Tray

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Coin Sorting Tray | Mama Papa Bubba

After our rhyming pairs matching game, Miss G asked to play another homemade game this afternoon.  With dinnertime nearing and a baby boy who needed one of his mama’s arms, it needed to be something super quick and easy to pull together, and that’s how this very simple coin sorting tray came about.  Admittedly, it’s more of an activity than a game, but Miss G didn’t mind in the least.  It meant that she got to play with money, which she’s been super interested in lately. That being said, since she’s spent the majority of her life living in the Middle East, Canadian currency is not something she knows much about just yet, so this was perfect for her.

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Fill Your Cup {A Simple Addition Game}

9 / 29 / 1510 / 1 / 15

Fill Your Cup  a simple addition game | Mama Papa Bubba

Numbers are currently HUGE in our house.  Writing numbers, counting, skip counting, subtraction, dividing things into equal groups, addition… You name it, Grae loves it. {And of course I love that she loves it. ☺}

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Berry Bush Snack Subtraction

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Berry Bush Snack Subtraction | Mama Papa Bubba

After seeing what a hit our recent play dough subtraction smash activity was, I immediately starting thinking of other fun, hands-on activities I could provide Miss G with to foster her love of exploring numbers {and subtraction in particular}. I’m fairly certain the play dough activity was so well-liked because of the smashing aspect, so I wanted something just as unique and fun.  Simply taking manipulatives away from a pile was not going to cut it.  {Well, not for me at least.}  I racked my brain for interesting ways to take things away, until I thought of eating!  G loves all sorts of healthy foods and is pretty much constantly hungry currently {hello, growth spurt!}, so snack subtraction of some sort was a perfect fit.

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Arrow Addition Matching Game

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Addition Arrows Matching Game | Mama Papa Bubba

After the success of last week’s play dough subtraction smash, I decided that we’d focus on another playful math activity this week, and since Miss G’s been all about getting going with Valentine’s Day stuff since we took down our Christmas tree, I thought we’d incorporate that too.  While hearts were {of course} the first thing that popped into my mind, I wanted to switch things up a little, so an arrow addition matching game it was.

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Simple Apple Tree Addition Game

9 / 23 / 1410 / 8 / 14

Simple Apple Tree Addition Game | Mama Papa Bubba

Throughout our days together, it’s not unusual for Gracen to come up to me and say something like, ‘Okay, Mama.  There are 3 little ducks swimming in the pond at the park.  2 more ducks come to swim.  How many ducks are there now?’  The girl comes prepared, too.  More times than not, she has a pencil sketch on a huge piece of white paper in her arms to help illustrate the problem.  She waits for my response eagerly, then pauses to calculate the total herself once she’s received my answer.  I get a peppy ‘Yup!  You are right!’ and then it’s my turn to create a story problem for her to solve.  This goes on again and again.  

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