I think that we ALL love playing games, whether it be a board game, online game, or an app on your smart phone or IPad. Below, I have listed some of my favorites for all of these categories that are great for both literacy and math!
You can click on most of the items to link directly to Amazon.com where you can purchase them if you'd like!
You can click on most of the items to link directly to Amazon.com where you can purchase them if you'd like!
TOP 5 LITERACY...
- Balderdash
- Balderdash is the classic game where bluffing your friends moves you closer to victory! Players must come up with their own definitions for weird words. The dealer has to decide which definition is the correct definition. If you trick the dealer, you get points.
- Scrabble
- Classic board game that forces students to create words out of letters that they have in their pile.
- Catch Phrase
- In this lightning-fast game of words and phrases, give as many clues as you can until someone on your team yells the word or phrase you want to hear. Gesture as much as you want, say anything you want. If the buzzer goes off while you're holding the disk, the other team gets the point!
- Boggle
- A small container holds 16 cubes, each cube marked with a different letter on each of its six sides. Give the container a good shake, and the cubes land within little pockets. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find as many words (of three-or-more letters) as you can--in three minutes.
- Taboo
- An obvious clue could be strictly Taboo. To get your team to say pinball, would you say arcade, game, flippers, tilt or roll? In this game you can not because all of those words are strictly Taboo. Rattle off clues while the time counts down.
- Spelling City
- VocabularySpellingCity.com is an online services that allows users to post and access word lists, practice for and take spelling and vocabulary tests, play spelling and vocabulary games, create printable games and share them with others.
- Word Confusion
- Choose the correct word to complete each sentence from 2 words that sound the same but are spelled differently.
- Grammar Blast
- This site gives students the chance to play a game to find the difference between nouns and pronouns.
- Shakespeare's Words
- This site gives students the opportunity to play games with the words of Shakespeare.
- Fact or Opinion Game
- Students need to decide which words are fact or fiction.
Apps
- Van Gogh and the Sunflowers - $3.99
- Incorporates the learning of Van Gogh's artwork with reading and interacting with his story.
- The Nutcracker Musical Storybook - $2.99
- Interactive story and games
- Cozmo's Day Off - $4.29
- Interactive story and games
- And To Think That I Found It On Mulberry Street - $2.99
- Digital Dr. Seuss classic
- Mika's Adventures - $9.99
- Interactive story with a lot of text features
TOP 5 MATH....
- The Settlers of Catan from Mayfair Games is an award-winning strategy game where players collect resources and use them to build roads, settlements and cities on their way to victory. The board itself is variable, making each game a little different from the next.
- Dutch Blitz
- You have to be the fastest to place your cards in sequence and in the
same respective colors on the center Dutch piles while using as many
cards from your Blitz Pile as possible. When your Blitz Pile has been exhausted, you've won.
- Skip Bo
- Skip-Bo resembles speed (or spit) in the same way that Uno takes after crazy eights. Out of a 162-card deck, two to six players are each dealt 20-card "stockpiles"; the first one to deplete their pile wins. Competing either alone or in teams, players draw from a central pile and stack their cards sequentially onto one of four "build" piles (for example, an eight onto a seven, a three onto a two), using plentiful Skip-Bo wild cards to break up static situations.
- Phase 10
- From the makers of UNO comes a rummy-type card game with a challenging
and exciting twist. The object of the game is to be the first player to
complete 10 phases ranging from two sets of three, one run of seven,
seven cards of one color, and more. The twist is that each phase to be
completed is specific for each hand dealt. Those who complete the phase
advance to the next, but those that don't must try again.
- Qwuirkle
- An addictive strategy game in the tradition of Sequence, Scrabble, and Othello, the Qwirkle Board Game from MindWare has a simple, straightforward premise: match tiles and win points. But the real joy of the game lies in plotting and scheming your way to victory.
- Math Balloon Popper
- Add, subtract, and multiply numbers fast in Math Popper. This carnival
math game is ideal for kids looking to perfect their addition and
subtraction skills as well as learn multiplication tables. The objective
of the game is to pop the balloons with the correct answer before time
runs out!
- Action Fraction
- In the educational math game Action Fraction, kids learn about fractions, and how to add and subtract using the different denominators.
- Speed Grid Challenge
- This is a race against the clock for students to select the 2 numbers from a grid to fill in their equation. They can check their answer at the end.
- Math Mystery Maven
- Calling all math detectives! Mysteries are popping all over town, and our chief sleuth needs your help to crack each case. Students need to use their math knowledge to help solve these word problems in the form of mystery stories.
- Shapes Game
- Drag the different shapes through the grid to try to form a square. It's not as easy as you think!
- Time, Money and Fractions On-Track - $9.99
- This app introduces these concepts and then challenges kids to figure out the solution to a variety of problems.
- Kids Math Fun | 3rd grade - $1.99
- Great app to have 3rd graders practice their math facts.
- Multiplication: Invasion of the Moon Monkeys! - $1.99
- As the story of the invasion is reported, use your multiplication and
gaming skills to defend strategic positions around the world.
- Sums Stacker - $.99
- Sums Stacker is a "Math Doodles" activity that provides plenty of addition and subtraction practice, within a recreational math setting. The mathematical puzzle allows users to play with different representations of numbers, while developing their number sense to create strategies to help them solve problems. There are two modes of play, solve and race, and two difficulty levels.
- Nine Gaps - FREE!
- The goal of the game is really simple. You have to use your wits to place numbers from 1 to 9 in the missing gaps, while matching the operations presented in the puzzle. It's just like sudoku, but different!
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http://bestappsforkids.com/category/apps-by-age-grade/3rd-grade/
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kids-math-fun-third-grade/id287884849?mt=8
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