Blackout Bingo
This was a fun game that GB and I enjoyed today.
Basically, you print off identical BINGO cards that have large numbers printed in the squares. These numbers have been rounded. We were rounding to the nearest thousand, but you can go as high or as low as you want.
Then on strips of paper, which you place (folded) into a small bowl, you have the un-rounded numbers.
Each player alternately takes a piece of paper from the bowl, rounds the number on it (ex. 33,565), then finds the rounded number on the BINGO card (ex. 34,000). Then you mark your card and put the folded strip of paper BACK into the bowl. The first player to blackout the entire card is the winner.
It seems like it would be a quick game, but we kept getting repeat papers, which is ok because that’s just more practice. This game, as is, was too easy for GB, but it was on the Time4Learning website that we are previewing, and he wanted to play it.
And don’t you think the markers are just gorgeous! I borrowed them from Jabem. He used to use them for his Magic tournaments. Thank you Jabem, hope you don’t mind… 
That’s a great game for rounding! And, I’m still hoping to try out time4learning soon - thanks for the reminder!
Comment by Dana — April 29, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
What a great game!
Comment by
tribeofautodidacts — April 29, 2008 @ 6:50 pm
What a great idea! I’ll have to remember it when Sweetie is ready for that skill.
Comment by Makita — May 1, 2008 @ 9:06 am
It looks like fun! Games are the best for learning math, don’t you think?
Comment by
learningumbrella — May 2, 2008 @ 5:12 pm