The problem-solving and computational skills your child uses in this activity are very important to mental math skills, and they also help your child to be creative with numbers. What you'll need License plates, paper, pencil, and calculator What to do 1. As you are traveling in your car, or on a bus, each person takes turns calling out a license plate number 2.
All players try to add the numbers in their heads.
Talk about what strategies were used in the mental math addition. Try different problems using the numbers in a license plate. Try using a calculator to play these games. See if you can solve these problems faster using the calculator.