The winner is the first person to go around the board and still have money left. Use models to relate whole numbers, commonly used fractions, and decimals to each other, and to represent equivalent forms of the same number. Students each develop questions whose answers are all equivalent to some target number. Students use geoboards, pattern blocks, Cuisenaire Rods, paper folding, and tangrams to explore simple common fractions like halves, thirds, and fourths. Compare and order whole numbers, commonly used fractions, and decimals.
Young students use dot pattern cards or dominoes to practice more, less, and same.
For example, given a card with 6 dots on it, students use counters to make a set that is more, another that is less, and one that is the same. They can then label the sets with cards that show the appropriate words. With dominoes, students work in pairs to compare the dots on the two halves and state which is more and by how much. Students play the old favorite card game war with either dot cards or with a deck of regular playing cards minus the face cards. Every now and then, the rule changes so that the student with the card that is less wins the play.