About this game

Answer exactly using the data

Answer exactly using the data: a free Grade 1 math game for ages 6-7. Each round draws 7 questions; instructions are read aloud and every answer is checked and explained.

How it plays and why it helps

Reading a table means finding one number and ignoring the rest. Answer exactly using the data asks for exactly that: a small table such as apples 8, pears 5, bananas 7 appears, the card names one category, and your child taps its value. Twenty tables cover fruit, books, scores, class sizes, temperatures and more, with values up to 24. Seven cards make a round in this Grade 1 game, each read aloud, and every answer is checked.

Reading data starts with locating: find the label, then follow it to its number. The hint says just that. It sounds easy, but a table lines its numbers up close together, and an eye can slide to the next one. One card even has a tie, red 8 and blue 8, a reminder that two categories can share a value.

Most wrong choices are the neighbors' values: 8 for pears, which belongs to apples, and 12 for Tuesday, which belongs to Monday. Each one is a true number from the table, in the wrong place. Lay a finger under the name and ask, "Which number goes with this word?" Praise the precision: "You kept your finger on the right name."

Aligned with

  • 1.MD.C.4 Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

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