Using Dominoes for Math

Summer is coming! I am sure you’ve enrolled your kids in summer camps, booked a few vacations, and planned some play dates, but have you thought about how you’ll stay on top of your kiddos’ academics while they’re home? I’ve already started thinking about how to spiral in what they’ve learned this past year to make sure they don’t lose it. I plan to find creative ways to keep them engaged by using everyday things that we have around the house. If you don’t have these things, there’s nothing a quick Amazon order won’t fix. Let’s take the use of dominoes for instance. Quinn is finishing up 5th grade, and one of their math focuses this year was converting improper fractions to mixed numbers. A big focus in third grade for Demi was learning her multiplication facts.  In Kindergarten, Max worked on addition and subtraction up to 10. What better way to work on all of these than with dominoes? If you don’t have dominoes at home already, you can snag these on Amazon for cheap. Watch the video below to see how we used them as manipulatives. Have fun!