Dino Place Value and...RightStart came!
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I found this game on Amazon...one of the few places that I can get decent shipping to up her with. Amazon's free Super Saver shipping will work here! Yea!!! Happy Dance LOL. Anyway, other stores will charge $50 or more to ship something like this here, if they will at all.
So this came in Friday and A immediately wanted to play it. So we broke it out after dinner and she struggled a bit. I know she knows place value to the thousands, and how to read 4 digit numbers but I think following new instructions, figuring out which dino to move, etc was all a little to much at one time. She did get better with it at the end.
Today she pulled out the game and asked to play again, so this time I decided that we would only do 3 digit numbers, and she was MUCH better. She flew through reading the triple digit numbers and then moving her hundreds dino, tens dino, and ones dino the appropriate places.
I really like this game because, well it does allow you to simplify as I did today, but it also has 4 modes of play, including ones that involve place value and addition, subtraction, and place value and solving word problems including multiplication. So it is a game that can really grow with her. She has already asked if we can play it again tomorrow.
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On another math note....Our RightStart Math Program came in the mail today! We are so excited!!!!!! I can't wait to start this with her. A helped me open the box and took a look at all the manipulatives. I think this will be a really good fit for us. I have been looking for and researching math curriculum for oh probably over a year now. Seriously...I just couldn't decide...but I finally took the plunge and ordered the one I just kept coming back to.
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Hope you enjoy RS! I also looked at it for my big girl but decided on a Singapore/Horizons Math combo - which is working very well.