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Features

Addition Race is a board game: roll a die, move, and say the sum on your space
Race to the Top is a dice game: roll two dice, add and color a box over the sum
Spin and Add uses two paper clip spinners and a four-in-a-row board
In Bump, students roll three dice, add, and bump each other off the board
Bigger Sum Wins is a card game like War
The Make Ten cards play Memory and Go Fish
Every game has its rules on the page and comes in color and in black and white
Answer keys for the board game and the cards

Skills Covered

Add facts to 20 quickly and correctly
Add two dice and three dice
Use a ten or a double to add three numbers

Compare two sums
Find two numbers that make 10
Take turns, follow rules and check a partner's answer

How to Use This Pack

Six games for practicing addition facts to 20, each on its own page with its rules at the top. Page 1, Addition Race, is a board game for 2 to 4 players: roll a die, move, and say the sum on the space; a partner checks it with the answer key. Page 2, Race to the Top, needs only two dice and crayons: add the dice and color a box over the sum, and see which sum reaches the top first. Page 3, Spin and Add, has two paper clip spinners (4 to 9 and 5 to 10) and a board where each sum shows up as often as it can be spun; players color sums and try for four in a row. Page 4, Bump, adds three dice: players cover sums with counters and bump each other off. Page 5 is 20 fact cards for Bigger Sum Wins, a card game like War. Page 6 is 20 cards from 0 to 10 with ten frames, for Memory and Go Fish games where a pair makes 10.

In the Classroom

Teach one game at a time to the whole class, playing it on the board against the class, then use it at a math center for the rest of the week. Print the board games and spinner boards on card stock, or slide them into sheet protectors and use dry-erase markers in place of crayons. Keep the cards in a zip bag with the rules page. The answer key for the board game and the cards lets a partner check sums without a teacher.

At Home

Play Race to the Top or Bump with dice from a board game at home. Ask your child to say how they added: "8 and 5: I made 10 with 2 from the 5, then 3 more is 13." Play Bigger Sum Wins with the cards, or with a real deck (aces are 1, take out the face cards) by turning over two cards each and adding them.

Tips for Success

Say the whole fact out loud: "8 plus 5 is 13"
Look for a double or a ten you know first
Count on from the bigger number if you get stuck
Check your partner's sum with the answer key
Play a game more than once: you get faster each time

Common Core Standards Alignment

This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

K.OA.A.2 Solve story problems and add or subtract with totals up to 10, modeling them with objects or drawings.
K.OA.A.4 For a number from 1 to 9, find the partner that adds with it to 10, and show it in a picture or number sentence.
1.OA.A.2 Solve story problems where three numbers are added together for a total of 20 or less.
1.OA.C.6 Add and subtract to 20, working fluently within 10, with strategies like counting on, making ten, fact families and doubles plus one.
2.OA.B.2 Add and subtract to 20 quickly using strategies done in the head, and by year's end instantly recall every sum of two single-digit numbers.

Addition Games to 20

1st Grade

Printable games for practicing addition facts to 20 with a partner or a small group. Students race on a board, roll dice, spin for four in a row and play card games, from Bigger Sum Wins to Memory and Go Fish.

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What’s Included

6 games in color and in black and white, with answer keys for the board game and the cards (14 pages)
A board game, a dice game and a spinner game with four in a row
Bump with three dice
20 fact cards for Bigger Sum Wins and 20 Make Ten cards for Memory and Go Fish

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