Despicable Me 2 Week: Minion Math

During our 

Despicable Me 2 Week,

I decided to "spice up"

Little Wild Man's math practice

with a little...

...Minion Math game.

Using THIS Minion dice download,

I printed out four copies,

cut the squares apart, and placed them in our

Photo Stacking Blocks

to create four Minion Dice.

I got the idea to use the photo blocks in this way

from Mama Jenn's Education Cubes website.

I am a member of this site,

and I HIGHLY recommend it if you want to bring in some 

physicality into your lessons-

which is especially nice for boys!  ;0)

After the dice were put together,

here is how we used them to practice

the mathematical concept of

regrouping:

1.  Roll one of the die.

2.  Write down the number rolled

in the units place

for the first number of your addition problem.

2. Roll another die

(and maybe make a goofy face while you do it).

3.  Write down that number in the tens place

for the first number of the addition problem.

4.  Continue to roll and write all the dice

until you have the second number

for your addition problem.

5.  Add the problem, and regroup if necessary.

Really,

all the dice provided was a way for 

Little Wild Man

to come up with his problem in an active manner.

He told me later that this was the 

"funnest Math ever."

Which is good,

since regrouping review

is not always fun!