Math Memory Match
Everyone knows the memory match game. A game were you have a deck of cards, be it a normal deck, pictures, words, etc., and you lay them all face down on the table. You take turns flipping over two cards, hoping to flip over the two the match. If you do, you take those cards, if you don't you flip them back over and so the next time when you flip over a new card, and recognize it as one you have flipped before, you can try to remember where the match was.
The memory match game has been around for years. It's simple but fun and can be played competitive or by one-player. It is great for exercising memory skills and depending on how many cards there are, it can be great for almost any age.
Since I have been trying to incorporate more games into our class' learning and lately, we have been working a lot on addition and subtraction skills. When I remembered this game, I thought I could make my own where you have to match simple math equations to their answer. I made the cards on multi-coloured q-cards, using two colours for each deck: one colour for the equations and the other for the answers. I then organized which answers I would have in which group to make sure there were no duplicates and I wrote all the cards out. Each deck has 20 cards (10 matches).
The students did a great job when playing the game in class. They were working together on questions and were appeared motivated to keep playing the game. We played for about 45 minutes! When students had completed a game, I gave them a new deck so they could play again with new questions.
Here is the lesson plan for this activity:
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