Top It Off

This is the perfect game for practicing addition with 3-digit numbers. Your second grader will love the element of chance combined with computation challenges as she competes to win! You'll need to create your own dice (We have a template for you to print out below.) and a record sheet. Simply roll the dice, find their sum, and add it to your total. You'll be sneaking in quite a bit of addition practice as you play! Feel free to assist your child with her work or allow her to work through problems on her own.

What You Need:

• 2 custom dice (Print out a dice template and make them, according to the picture shown.)
• One Top It Off record sheet (Print this out.)
• Pencils

What You Do:

1. Record "200" as the starting number on the score sheet.
2. Players take turns rolling the two custom dice, adding up their total, and writing it into their answer sheet. Look at the example score sheet on the right. You'll notice that each round includes the previous total (For the first round, it's 200.), + the total of the dice.
3. Play until one player reaches or goes above 2000. That player is the winner!

Variations:

• Make the game more challenging and require players to finish exactly at 2000.
• Use any starting and stopping point. For example, start at 700 and stop at 2500.
• Change the numbers on the dice.