Dot Card Games
EDC's Young Mathematicians kits provide teachers and parents with games that are fun, spark conversations about math and provide rich learning opportunities. The games are designed to promote persistence, problem-solving and puzzling skills, and support social-emotional learning.
These turnkey kits contain everything needed to start playing right away - either in the classroom or at home - and are available in English or Spanish.
The games in this kit use a deck of colorful cards with written numerals and dots, 0–10. The dots are arranged in different configurations: straight lines, rectangular arrays, triangular arrays, dice patterns, ten frames, circles and scattered configurations. The variety of dot arrangements helps children develop different mental images of specific quantities. Dot Cards help children practice important early math skills, such as counting and number operations.
The kit includes the following 10 games:
› Game 1: Dot Card Color Sort
› Game 2: Quick Images
› Game 3: Can You Find?
› Game 4: Match the Dots
› Game 5: More, Less, Same
› Game 6: Hungry Numbers
› Game 7: Make 5!
› Game 8: Which One Doesn’t Belong?
› Game 9: Top It!
› Game 10: Dot Memory
Both the Classroom and Family kit include a comprehensive Teacher Guide that describes the reasoning and the research behind the games and minibooks. The guide also includes easy-to-follow directions to each game, as well as QR codes that link to videos about how to play each game and the mathematics the children are learning.
Also included with each kit is a book featuring Math Minibooks that complement the math games with short stories and play-along activities that teachers or families can read and color with children. Each minibook has a short problem-solving story that ends with a game or activity that is related to the games in the kits. These minibooks further children’s mathematics learning and support adults and children when talking about math at home and at school.
The Classroom Kit accommodates up to 20 students, while the Family Kit has enough materials for the child to play with his parents and siblings.
