Games for Math and Social Skills
Library: Grouping/Cooperative Learning || Math Ed: Collaborative Learning
We have started a collection of links to games for building math and social skills.
Flux - suggested by Gina Kietzmann
This is a card game that starts with simple rules: Draw one, play one - but at first there is no way to win. As the game progresses the rules change and the goal changes. It takes a couple of times to get use to the game but once that happens students love to play it. I use it as a way to teach conditional statements.
Human Graph Theory - The Math Forum
The Math Forum's 1998 Summer Institute began with a graph theory game based on Toss and Sort, designed to help the group learn each other's names and get acquainted.
Human Knot - Indiana Principal Leadership Academy
This is an exercise in teamwork and following directions from peers, as well as give-and-take.
Human Knot - Improv Exercises
Students come together in a rough circle and reach across, grasping no more than one hand of the same person until everyone has two hands grasped. See also Mathematical Knot Theory.
Mathematical Games - suggested by Ken Nisbet
All games are "full knowledge" games for two players.
Middleman - suggested by Ken Nisbet
Middleman is an excellent simulation game. Ken uses it with groups of four or five students acting as one player. This allows a complete class to play one game. Teacher goes middleman.
Prisoner's Dilemma - Serendip
Prisoners' Dilemma is a game which has been and continues to be studied by people in a variety of disciplines, ranging from biology to sociology and public policy.
The Quiet Game - The Math Forum
Use the print-ready puzzles to make a game to encourage cooperative learning with your students. See also Team Building by Business Fundamentals.
SET Game - suggested by Andrea
This card game was put online by the company. There's a new puzzle every day and each puzzle has 6 sets. My students love to play this as a reward.
Traffic Jam - The Math Forum
Find the minimum number of hops and jumps that allows six people in a single-file line of seven stepping stones to reverse their order. Experiment online with a Java activity.
Zin Obelisk - author unknown
A team problem-solving game in which information is distributed to team members concerning a building project and they practice collaboration and basic geometry and calculation skills to figure out the day on which construction was completed.
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