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Smart Math Games
These are the math games we all love - fun, exciting, but not contrived
versions of classroom math. Check out the
24
Game - this is one of our favorite dinner-time diversions, as well as a
great game with math-peers.
Card Golf travels as easily as a deck of cards, and varies as widely as the
pars on your local or favorite golf courses. And
SET... a perpetual hit for all ages, but doesn't even require reading.
Offering many terrific toys our kids love,
Toys
at Amazon.com,
MindWareOnline,
Discovery Store,
Zome!
and many more - all the links on Shop Hoagies! -
are all Hoagies' Gifted Education Page associates.
For each purchase from Hoagies' Page links, these stores give a small
percentage of your purchase price to Hoagies' Gifted Education Page, at no cost
to you -- Thanks!
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1-2-3 OY! and
A-B-C OY! card games
(numbers or letters) for the younger folks, multi-player or solitaire... lots
of fun!
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- The 24 Game
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 Create the number 24 from the four numbers on a game card. You can add,
subtract, multiply and divide. Use all four numbers but use each number only
once. Available from simple addition and subtraction, right up to fractions,
decimals and algebra. Click for 24 Challenge tournament schedule.
Decks listed in order of difficulty
24/7
The Game by Sunriver Games (ages 8+)
An exciting strategy game that combines elements of luck and skill. Using
durable plastic tiles on a full color game board, players take turns laying
tiles on a 7×7 grid and score points for adjacent tiles that create runs,
sets and sums of 24 or 7...
4
Way Countdown
Practice +-*/ skills by using the numbers on the dice. The first to flip over all 10
numbered keys wins the game... Also try
4 Way Spelldown
 7ate9
by Out
of the Box Publishing (or from
Amazon)
Easy as 1, 2, 3! Add or subtract 1, 2, or 3 to the number on the top card
on the pile to determine if they have a card that can be played next. Sounds
simple, but with everyone playing simultaneously the options are constantly
changing. The first player out of cards wins!
Architecto
(or from
Barnes & Noble) and
Equilibrio (or from
Barnes & Noble)
Use the 18 precision-cut blocks to construct 3-D structures illustrated in
the challenge booklet: 50 illustrations in each game, ranging from simple shapes,
requiring only a few blocks to complex ones. As players develop stronger
notions of perspective and geometric concepts, the challenges become more
demanding...
Battleship
Classic strategy game, adored by gifted kids as young as 4 or 5...
Also Battleship
Folio (Travel)
Blink
(or from
Amazon)
Sharp eyes and fast hands, but with handicapping to even the game for the
most diverse 2 or 3 players... no reading required
Card
Golf
Play golf with a deck of cards? You bet! There's a course
provided, but you can play ANY golf course in the world - all you need is
the distance and par for each hole. Use the deck to play and score
your holes, and see if you can beat par. We had fun playing it with
teens and adults; good beginning as young as kids can add 3 digit numbers.
Not bad for quick mental math practice, either! Easy to carry and play
almost anywhere...
Cashflow 101 by Rich Dad
Give your child a financial headstart by raising their financial I.Q. This
game teaches your family the key principles of how to get out of the rat
race & how to create wealth. From the authors of
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the
Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
 The
Curse of the Ruby Rhino, a Dastardly Dice Game by (ages 6-12)
Behold the Ruby Rhino! The most coveted of ancient treasures stands inches
from your grasp but a curse makes it nearly impossible to capture. Roll the
dice and try your best to corner this elusive jeweled beast. Watch out for a
bevy of fake gold that will get in your way... (counting and visual
discrimination)
Descartes'
Cove
by
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (6 CD set for gifted grades 6 through
8)
In a leaky lifeboat, students survive an ocean storm and become marooned
on a deserted island once inhabited by Rene Descartes. They discover his
parchment notebook, pick up a map and other gear, and begin their journey
through the island tunnels, volcanoes, underground rivers, jungles,
abandoned mines, sunken ships and many more surprises. At each step, they
solve increasingly difficult puzzles and math challenges, earn gold coins,
and make entries in their own journal. As they master each math concept,
they prepare to tackle the final quest...
Equate
(or from
Amazon)
Strategic math thinking game. Don't forget
Junior Tile Set for more integers (or MindWare), or the
Advanced Tile Set for negative numbers and exponents (or MindWare).
Equate classroom set and
Equate Junior classroom set available, too!
Equate
Activity Notebook Level 1,
Level 2, or
Level 3...
Farkel (ages
6 and up)
Exciting dice game for
the whole family, two or more players. Two
minutes to learn; luck, guts and strategy to win... Farkel comes in
Green,
Blue,
Purple,
Red (purchase
score pads seperately), as well as Pocket versions, 2" high and
complete, in
Purple,
Blue,
Green,
Red (roll-up score pad included) and even
Spicy Farkel!
 Flip4
(or from
Amazon)
Combine arithmetic and strategy, roll the dice and play a square on the
board, but watch out for your opponent when he "flips" you off the board!
A fun way to sharpen your math skills...
FlashMaster
by FlashMaster, Inc.
A toy, a learning tool... both. FlashMaster replaces flash cards for
+-*/ math facts. Use it with or without the timer (or make it
longer, for kids who need some limits, but a little more time), with or
without sound effects, problems that are missed can be run separately in
"missed problems." Change the format of the problems, putting the
"variable" in any position. This is a great tool, that's great fun, even
for our twice exceptional friends...
PC Magazine
review
Granny Apples (ages 8 and up, or as soon as a gifted child can add
and subtract halves!) (or from
Amazon)
Quick counting game using 1/2's and wholes,
addition and subtraction. Watch out for the worm!
Head
Full of Numbers (or from
Amazon)
Players roll six dice out of the brainiac-shaped cup and combine the
resulting digits using addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.
Whoever comes up with the greatest number of unique, correct equations wins!
 Hisss
the Colorful Snake-Making Card Game (2-5 players, ages 3 and up)
As each Hisss snake slithers its way across the playing area, it
introduces color identification and visual logic: Does it make sense to have
a snake with two tails and no head' Are those two colors the same or not'
Even elementary counting skills come into play during scoring at the end of
the game. No reading required...
Ivan
Moscovich's Mastermind Collection
Diabolical puzzles from the undisputed king of recreational mathematics.
Leonardo's Mirror, Hinged Square, Shoelace Problem, Monty Hall Problem,
Fiendishly Frustrating Brain-Twisting Puzzles, and Deviously Difficult
Mind-Bending Puzzles. Get one title or all six! Or order them all from Amazon,
Knotty Number Problems,
Leonardo's Mirror,
Perplexing Pattern Problems,
Perplexing Pattern Problems,
The Hinged Square,
Tough Topology Problems,
Peerless Probability Problems,
Brain-Flexing Balance Problems,
Cunning Combination Problems,
The Shoelace Problem,
The Monty Hall Problem, and
Loopy Logic Problems
Kakuro
Challenge 1 & 2
or from Amazon...
Kakuro Challenge 1 and
Kakuro Challenge 2 by Alastair Chisholm
More challenging than Sudoku (also called Cross Sums), Kakuro are a
mathematics crossword puzzle!
Klutz
Books
From paper airplanes to Legos, marbles and jacks, from juggling to peg
solitaire to desktop football, from knitting and sewing to watercolor art to
thumbprint art... There are so many of these great books, they get their own
Hoagies page!
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How
to Tell Time
- Among the topics: How come time stops at the
dentist? Why do grown-ups care so much about the time? What exactly happens
when the short hand disappears behind the long hand?
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Stop! the Watch: A
Book of Everyday, Ordinary, Anybody Olympics
- Some spectacularly ordinary Olympic events -- like switching your shoelaces --
done for time...
Mad Math
They'll forget they're practicing math. Tic tac toe, where you
roll the dice and multiply to position your pawn. Three in a row
wins (including addition game for younger kids)
Martin
Gardner's Mathematical Games
The entire collection of his Scientific American columns on one CD.
"Mathematical Games" column ran in Scientific American from 1956 to 1986. Here
Gardner introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the delights of
mathematics and of puzzles and problem solving. His column broke such stories as
Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman on public-key cryptography, Mandelbrot on fractals,
Conway on Life, and Penrose on tilings. He enlivened classic geometry and number
theory and introduced readers to new areas such as combinatorics and graph
theory...
Mastermind
(or from
MindWare)
Classic logical deduction game. Also
Deluxe Travel Mastermind,
Attaché Mastermind and
Mastermind for Kid
Mastermind
Puzzle Collection by Ivan Moscovich
hundreds of diabolical puzzles and mathematical conundrums in this
collection from the undisputed king of recreational mathematics. Ivan Moscovich offers his favorite puzzles in six volumes, including fascinating
reading thanks to facts and historical anecdotes interspersed among the
problems. Answers include explanations of the underlying theoretical
principles
Math
Blaster ages 6-12 (age 5)Up-to-date version of
the first educational software, learn math facts through interactive games...
 Math
Dice
(ages 8+) by
ThinkFun (or from
Amazon)
Add, subtract, multiply, divide, square or cube to get closest to the Target
Number. Comes with dice, storage bag, instructions and sample challenges.
We've been playing at dinner, and the storage bag makes it a great travel game!
Math
Shark
Quizzes kids on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fraction,
decimals, or percentages with eight skill levels in each category
The
Mathematics Calendar 2010 by Theoni
Pappas
A problem a day, all year long! Plus facts, curiosities, and
challenging problems...
Maya Madness (ages 10 and up, or as soon as the gifted child is ready to
play with zero!)
Among their many achievements, the Mayan civilization was the first to
understand the power of zero. Maya Madness uses their principles and symbols
to bring math alive for kids and help them understand positive and negative
numbers. All tokens and cards feature both Arabic numerals and Mayan number
symbols. Your goal is to add and subtract your cards to reach your secret
token number. But be careful or you may plunge into the world of negative
numbers!
 Mille
Bornes
First published in 1962, Mille Bornes (pronounced "meel
born," French for "milestones") is an auto racing card game
whose object is to be the first to complete a series of 1,000-mile trips -
another favorite from my childhood!
Muggins Math
Hands on manipulatives that facilitate the learning of complex
mathematical tasks, while being both fun and challenging. Great for
the visual learner!
Noble Celts Chess in the round...Chess was played on a circular
designed board centuries ago but mostly disappeared during the Dark Ages. Only
in recent years has this form of chess been rediscovered...
Roll
'n Multiply,
Roll 'n Divide, and
Roll 'n Add
Roll the dice and multiply (or divide or add) the numbers to place chips
on the board, get four-in-a-row (or a triangle or tic-tac-toe) to win. But
watch out for your opponent's chip strategy!
 SET
The
Family Game of Visual Perception (or from
Amazon)
Purchase
this great card game, or play the
on-line
version that changes daily, plus resources for teaching with SET
ThinkFun (was Binary Arts) great logic
puzzles and games for all
ages (mostly labeled 8 years and up, but great for gifted kids much
younger)
- Sudoku
5x5 hands-on Sudoku puzzles for the younger set...
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GRIDWorks
place the pieces by visual logic clues...
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TipOver
Topple a path from here to there... or
Spiderman TipOver
Subtrax
a new twist on classic peg solitaire...
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Rush
Hour (or from
Amazon)
- Rush Hour Card
Set 2,
Set 3,
Set 4 (or from Amazon,
Set 2,
Set 3,
Set 4)
Rush
Hour Jr. 40 junior challenges
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Railroad Rush Hour
2 exit choices, and blocks that move in two directions!
- Top
This Players create identical shapes using different game pieces.
Seemingly simple game is not only loads of fun, but can also be
surprisingly tricky!
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Tangram
seven-piece Tangram puzzle is the world's oldest and most well
known silhouette puzzle, pieces crafted in metal and filled with
vivid blue enamel
- 4
Cube Puzzle 4 cubes, 12 puzzles, lots of challenge!
 Times
Tables the Fun Way! and
Addition the Fun Way!
by City Creek Press
A fun pictorial method of learning the multiplication
facts, and addition facts...
Toss Up! (ages 8+)
Pocket- or purse-size game of chance in it's own case, great for those
unexpected delays... toss the dice, try to get as many greens as you can...
but don't get stopped by a red! Great addition practice, keeping score
to 100, and risk-taking practice, should you roll, or take the score you
already have?
WFF
'n Proof learning games and puzzles
focus on developing fundamental reasoning skills and higher-order
problem-solving abilities in logic, mathematics, social studies, scientific
reasoning and experiment, and the logical structure of English language...
Yahtzee
The classic dice game, soon to be 50 years old! Or try the
Deluxe Edition, or Yahtzee
Folio (Travel)
Zome System
Bubble Kit,
Explorer Kit,
Adventurer Kit,
Pioneer Kit,
DNA Kit,
Creator Kit (or from MindWare
Adventurer or
Creator) from triangles to DNA strands, the smart new building toy
Great math learning tool, too! Available
lesson plans, model instructions, on-line manual. My kids (and their
parents) love this stuff! Plus literature including lesson plans for K-12,
Kepler's Solid essay and more. Additional Zome parts are available
from the re-launched ZomeTool website
(not currently a Hoagies' Page affiliate, but should be next year)
Zome Geometry
 Hands-on
learning with Zome Models
Great new book to accompany Zome System, particularly for the advanced Zome
user, studying Geometry and beyond!
Last updated
January 20, 2010
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