Making Math Fun

You know that if you're making mathematics fun, you must be really smart. These simple math games just might do the trick.

You could use a calculator for some of these but you might also get older children to do the calculations themselves; often once they see the answers they want to work out the pattern to see how it happened. "What?" you say. "A child doing math voluntarily?" It can happen.

These problems all use basic arithmetic, nothing fancier than multiplication, but you should make sure your child is old enough to understand the idea of the bigger numbers you get in some cases.

These first few make repeating sequences of numbers:

0 X 9+ 1 = 1
1 X 9+ 2 = 11
12 X 9 + 3 = 111
123 X 9+ 4 = 1.111
1234 X 9 + 5 = 11,111

... etc.

And these:
143 X 2 X 7 = 2,002
143 X 3 X 7 = 3,003
143 X 4 X 7 = 4,004
143 X 5 X 7 = 5,005

... etc.

There's much more in WOW DAD!

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