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Nov. 13, 2005
Raceway To Addition
This is a fun game which can be modified easily for any skill level. All you need is a die, a numberline, and place markers. This is orinally written with the TX first grade math objectives in mind, which included sums and differences to 18. You can easily go higher or lower to suit your child's ability level.
Principle: God is infinite. He has no beginning and no end.
Leading idea: God created numbers to also be infinite. No matter how high a number is, there is always one higher.
Definitions:
Arithmetic is counting.
Addition is counting forward.
Subtraction is counting backward.
A numberline shosws the order of numbers from least to greatest. It goes forever in both directions and has no end. A numberline can be helpful to add and subtract quickly.
Infinite means (literally) "no end."
Scripture:
Psa 147:5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
Reasoning:
God's knowledge is infinite. There is nothing He does not know. He knows the hairs on your head and the number of the stars. He knows all our thoughts. Our knowledge is finite. Therefore, we do better to trust God, who knows all.
Activity:
To play this, you need a die, a game board and a place marker for each player. This is really practice adding and subtracting on a number line. Take a moment to explain the numberline, and that it really goes on forever. This is just a small part you are taking for this game. To play, you need the game board with 19 spaces numbered 0-18. Each player begins on 0. Take turns rolling the die and advancing the marker that many spaces. Spaces only count if the child says the number sentence (for example, 0 + 4 = 4). Then the next player goes. I recommend having the child get an exact match to 18 before being able to land on 18. Once the player lands on 18, s/he begins subtracting each roll of the die until getting back to 0. Whoever gets all the way to 18 and back to 0 first wins.
You can start just with addition and stop at 18 if you have not worked on subtraction yet.
Here is a numberline from 0 to 10.
Here is a numberline from 11 to 20.
You can cut them and paste together for an easy gameboard.
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