Go Fish Math

The students were placed in groups of three and played a game of Go Fish to learn the three styles of Place Value they are learning. They were given a deck of index cards with a number written on them in one of three ways:

78

8 ones and 70 tens/70 tens and 8 ones

70+8/8+70

In the last two lines it is written either way since it is also shown that way on assessments. They are already learning to read numbers in 5 different formats. It is a lot for a young person to remember.

They took turns and whenever someone had all three types they had a full matching set and would write the complete set in their Math journals.

Note to Self - This activity created quite a bit of confusion, especially as some kids learned quickly that once someone took a card, it meant they had it and they would ask for it back thus creating some large hands. Also, the kids tended to not organize their hands. I would go around organizing it but it seemed they had a different system.