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Teachers Love This Version Of Monopoly – See Why

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Monopoly is a game familiar to everyone around the world but this version has teachers super excited. This version uses Math strategies to take you around the board. This game is aimed at 7+  years to help learn and revise classroom maths in the home setting. Do you think your kids would sit down and play this? Free DIY printable Mathonopoly Game. 

This Mathonopoly game is so popular, you may want to print it out and laminate this free maths board game so you can use it again and again. Such a great tool for teaching math in a fun environment.

Looking for more resources? Check out these board games for learning Math and Multiplication?

There are several things that parents and educators can do to help change kids’ perceptions of math and make it more engaging and interesting:

  1. Find ways to make math relevant to their lives: One way to make math more engaging is to show kids how it is used in the real world. For example, you can demonstrate how math is used in cooking, sports, or other activities that children enjoy.
  2. Use hands-on activities: Children often learn better when they are actively engaged in an activity. Try using hands-on math activities, such as manipulatives or games, to make learning math more interactive and fun.
  3. Encourage problem-solving: Math is all about solving problems, so encourage children to approach math as a series of challenges that they can solve. This can help to make math more engaging and rewarding.
  4. Use technology: There are many online math games and resources that can make learning math more interactive and fun.
  5. Be positive and encouraging: If a child is struggling with math, it’s important to be patient and supportive. Avoid criticizing or scolding them, and instead try to find ways to help them understand the material.

Overall, there are many things that parents and educators can do to help change kids’ perceptions of math and make it more engaging and interesting. With some effort and creativity, it is possible to help children see the value and enjoyment in learning math.

 

 

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  1. What are the rules for mathopoly? Is it played like regular monopoly and you have to solve equation correctly in order to buy or is the buying process eliminated??

  2. I think you could do it either way, but it looks like in this version you just solve the equation and would put some kind of marker to indicate who solved it so you can tally up the score at the end (or play to 10, or whatever).

  4. Go to the page linked, which is in Italian. You’ll see where it says
    Mathonopoly 7-11 anni

    Mathonopoly 11-14 anni

    and they are links to the download pages for math problems for different years. It takes you to another page with a download button.

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Sun Activities for Kids

With summer coming soon in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a fun time to incorporate activities and crafts with a sunny theme. Take some time to learn about the sun (this post from National Geographic Kids is a good one) and then do some sun activities.

Sun prints are a classic summer activity, and there are lots of ways to do them, from placing objects on construction paper (like in this craft from MomBrite) or by using sun print paper (aka cyanotype paper).

Practice threading, counting, color sorting and other skills with this easy sun threading activity from Taming Little Monsters.

Lessons 4 Little Ones has a great blog post full of ideas for science experiments using the sun, such as melting crayons, looking at shadows, making a sun dial and trying a solar oven. Printables to go with the lessons are available for purchase or you can just talk through the students’ hypotheses about what will happen and draw or otherwise record the results.

This updraft tower from Almost Unschoolers is a cool way to illustrate that the heat of the sun causes an updraft, which makes the pinwheel spin. This is a good one to do inside near a sunny window so you don’t have wind spinning the pinwheel instead.

You’ll want to get out in the sun to try this experiment form Life with Moore Babies to see what kinds of things the sun can melt. Using different kinds of sweets you can see how the sun melts things by itself and how you can concentrate the power of the sun with a magnifying glass.

Playing with shadows is fun for kids of all ages, and you can track a shadow through the day with this experiment from Science Sparks. If you’re working with multiple kids they can each choose an object to shadow (ha!) and at the end of the day you can see how different their shadows looked. 

And of course you’ll want to make a sun themed suncatcher craft, right? This one from Fox Farm Home uses all the pretty flowers you collect on your nature walk and puts them in a sun-shaped frame.

 

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