Tips

Please look over the usage suggestions linked on this page. These tips will tell you how the games are intended to be used in instruction.

Depending on your interests, you may also want to check out the pedagogy behind the games.

Assessing knowledge before beginning the games

Seating arrangements

If learners are adding by counting, they need an earlier game

Explaining the rules

Can we change the rules?

Do we have to play every game in order?

Repeating a game

When players make errors

What if a learner says a game is too easy?

Using the games as paper and pencil activities

Learning aids are supplementary resources

What if your curriculum uses different terminology?

Negative numbers

Creating worksheets

More resources for transfer and retention

Using the games in schools

Pairing learners

Learners as helpers

Fitting the games into a class schedule

Games as homework

Parents and other volunteers in the classroom

Using the games outside schools

Community volunteering outside the classroom

Tutoring

Homeschooling and supplementary home use

Adult learners

Very young children

August 18, 2020; updated November 5, 2021