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Math Center Games Using a Hundred Chart

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Looking for some fun ideas to incorporate into your independent math centers? Hundred chart center games may be just what you’re looking for!

There’s no need for copying thick packets or having students complete boring worksheets. Give them something hands-on or make their learning into a game. Engagement and learning will skyrocket.

Each of the hundred chart center games below discuss what the students would be doing and the logistics of how they will do it. Before getting into the how, here are some tips to consider:

1- Laminate the paper hundred charts so that they can be reused over and over. It not only saves paper and time rushing to the copier, students love writing on (and erasing) laminated paper.

2- To make the laminated hundred charts thicker, glue the chart to a piece of construction paper before you laminate. It will make it more colorful and sturdy.

3- If using highlighters captures your students’ attention instead, by all means, use them on regular pieces of paper!

4- Pocket chart hundred charts can be so engaging for students. Especially if they’re usually only used by the teacher or during calendar/focus wall time. Incorporating them into your Math centers is a sure hit.

Find the Patterns

What: Students find (and mark) the patterns throughout the hundred chart.

How: Using a pointer on a pocket chart hundred chart, highlighting a paper hundred chart or using markers on a laminated hundred chart. Students can even use different colors for different patterns.

Skip, Skip, Skip Count the Chart

What: Students practice skip counting using a hundred chart.

How: Using the pocket chart hundred chart, highlighting a paper hundred chart or using markers on a laminated hundred chart. Students can use different colors for different ways they skip count (by 5’s, by 10’s, by 2’s…etc.).

Fill It In

What: Students fill in the missing numbers on a hundred chart.

How: Using markers on a laminated hundred chart that has some numbers missing. (You can find premade hundred charts with numbers already missing, or you can whiteout some of the numbers from a hundred chart before you copy and laminate them.)

Which Numbers are Missing?

What: Students determine which numbers are missing on the hundred chart.

How: Using the pocket chart hundred chart. In partners or small groups, one student takes out several numbers from the pocket chart while the others close their eyes. When they open their eyes, they use their concept of number or knowledge of the hundred chart to determine which numbers are missing.

Puzzle Me This

What: Students put chunks of/pieces of a hundred chart back together.

How: Using precut and laminated chunks of a hundred chart. (Making each set of puzzle pieces a different color is helpful in case the puzzle pieces get mixed up and/or placed in the wrong baggie.)

Which Number Am I?

What: Students guess which number their partner is thinking of on the hundred chart.

How: Using the pocket chart hundred chart, highlighting a paper hundred chart or using markers on a laminated hundred chart. Students can take numbers out or highlight/cross them off the hundred chart as they narrow down the correct number that their partner is thinking of.

10 More, 10 Less

What: Students find what is 10 more or 10 less of a number on a hundred chart.

How: Using the pocket chart hundred chart, highlighting a paper hundred chart or using markers on a laminated hundred chart.

What’s My Place Value?

What: Students determine the place value of numbers on the hundred chart.

How: Using the pocket chart hundred chart. Students say or write the place value of a given number from the hundred chart. ( 24 = _2_ tens _4_ ones)

Your Turn, My Turn

What: Students use the hundred chart to add or subtract with a partner.

How: Highlighting a paper hundred chart or using markers on a laminated hundred chart. Students take turns finding the answer to addition or subtraction equations using the hundred chart.

No matter which game (or games) you choose, your students will love playing any of these hundred chart center games!

Check out this post to read more about hundred charts, and different ways that you can use them with your students.

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