Article: Shamrock math game. (Instructor Reproducible).(Brief Article)

Liven up your classroom St. Patrick's Day celebrations--and reinforce basic operations skills--with this original board game, which uses leprechauns and pots of gold to get kids excited about addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Before you begin, make one copy of the mini-reproducible below for each student in your class, and enough copies of the game board reproducible (pages 38 and 39) for the entire class to play at once. Then invite your students to color and decorate their game pieces and boards as you explain that St. Patrick's Day is a celebration of Irish culture, and that shamrocks and leprechauns are symbols of that day. Leprechauns, imaginary beings from ...

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