Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Math Games

I like to play word games, like Bananagrams and Snatch-It (though I'm a little too competitive with Snatch-It) and Scrabble, and MJL often says that if we could find a fast math game, it would be a little more fair.  

I found this one called "24" and he and Anna and I played it one snowy day during naps.  


You can add, subtract, multiply, and divide and you want to get to 24.  Everyone looks at the card and races to find the solution.  There's more than one way to solve each one.  For the card above, you can just add all four numbers:  6 + 7 + 6 + 5 = 24 



This one is 8-5 is 3, plus 1 is 4, x 6 = 24


  

This one none of us has figured out!  We've had it hanging on the fridge for 3 weeks now.  Any help?

8 comments:

Melanie said...

That's hard! It might bug me till someone figures it out, I suppose that's the reason it's on your fridge. :)

In the Mix said...

Do you have to use all the numbers?

betsyann said...

Melanie-I was hoping your math teacher hubby could help!

ItM-Yep, all 4!

Susan said...

I love 24! Where did you find it? Those numbers are haunting me now. If Matthew can't figure it out, what chance do the rest of us have? :)

Roach Momma said...

I have Keenan working on it now. Stay tuned!

Roach Momma said...

Keenan says:

9+7=16, 16*2=32, 32-8=24 Kah-ching!

betsyann said...

Hooray! Thanks Keenan!

Melanie said...

Argh, it seems so easy once you see how they did it! (I didn't even show the math teacher yet, he was working on a paper. I think this would be a great game for his classroom!)