Notes Concerning Point
Level: Advanced (1st-3rd grade)
Recommended # of players: 2-6
Materials: Deck of Point dot cards (60 cards; 10 each of numbers 1-6) and
Point tile cards (27 cards; 4 each with 1-4 yellow tiles; 1 each with 0, 5-9,
11, and 12 yellow tiles; 3 each with 10 yellow tiles)
Mathematical relationships: Addition with 2 or more addends, 1-6;
counting on from 5
Notes:
This game is not as complicated as it appears at first glance. Children
simply make sets of cards that add up to the number showing on the tile
card (0-12). Children have the opportunity to use 2 or more numbers to
make another number. They also have the opportunity to figure out the
strategy of saving their smaller cards (1s and 2s) to make larger numbers.
The tile cards are divided into quadrants of 5 tiles each, for a total of 20
tiles. Some of the tiles are yellow. Children count the number of yellow tiles
to find out the total they are to create using the cards in their hands.
Because of the design of the tile cards, teachers have the opportunity to
observe how children count and add (counting all versus counting on) and
whether or not children count by 5s when counting the larger numbers on
the tile cards.
The objective is for children to get rid of all of their cards by using them to
make the total of each tile card turned over.
When making the tile cards from the templates included on this CD, cut
along the red lines.
From Kamii, C. & DeClark, G. (1985). Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic:
Implications of Piaget’s Theory. Teachers College Press: New York.