WAR type games are for repetition and practice when a skill or concept is first introduced. SNAP type games are intended for use once a skill is taught, understood, and internalized by the child. The goal in SNAP is mastery of skills and concepts. Having students verbalize their answers, their math sentences, and their strategies, will allow them to discover mathematical connections such as subtraction, decimals, and integers. An example of a second and third grade level game is each player drawing one, two, or three cards and making a number.
Students can also challenge each other to round the answer to the nearest ten or one hundred.
Players with correct answers score one point. The winner is the first to reach twenty points. Some games contain suggestions for varying the playing rules such as changing the operation or adding other conditions for terminating the game. Blackline masters for games requiring gameboards are included. ENC does NOT distribute this resource.