"Stephanie" wrote in message
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Anyone know of any fun games to play to practice math facts? We have math
blaster which is a ton of fun and very helpful. But I am looking for
addition and subtraction facts to 12 to practice on. And I HATE drills.
They make me think of a friend of mine whose father screamed at him while
doing flash cards.

What age are you looking for? #2 (age 4) loves me to do join the line games.
I write sums (eg 5 +6, 4+12 etc) down one side and write the answers down
the other in a different order and she has to join the sum and it's answer
(you can have more than one sum to each answer to make it harder).
She's been doing these for about 18 months now. I started them when she was
trying to do sums (like her sister!) but struggling to write the answer as
she was finding writing some of the numbers hard. The only difficulty is
getting her to stop once she's started, and she can do a sheet nearly as
quickly as I can write one. We do them for word recognition, and choose the
missing word too. #1 never particularly liked them though.
Debbie