Math fun

Lately our math games have been getting stale. The same ole skip counting , clapping, ect...

So yesterday I decided to tell a math story. It went something like this

Along time ago in a kingdom far away the king had locked the princess and her mother up in a tower with no way out except for the key the king had. One day a prince from another kingdom came ridding into this kingdom and heard stories about the princess and her mother. He, being a kind prince knew he had to rescue them so he rode at once to the tower. There he looked around but saw no one in. Then the princess looked down at the prince she told him how he could unlock the magic stairs and rescue them. He need to count by sixes. The prince who was not only handsome and kind, was also smart and immediately started counting. Each time he called out a new number a stair would appear. Finally he made it to the top and rescued the princess and her mother. On the way down he counted backwards by six to close the stairs. When they reached the bottom they rode away on the princes horse to his kingdom and they lived happily ever after.

The next day I drew this picture and had Ryan copy it into his book and write the answer to each 6 times table fact. He loved doing this and did not even give me a hard time doing his math!