Bump!

Students practiced their adding skills by learning and playing a math game called Bump.  They used either 2, 3 or 4 dice, depending on which gameboard they were playing.  They would find the sum of their dice, then cover up that number on their gameboard.  If they got the same number as the other player, they could "bump" their marker off the board and put theirs in that place.  As we played, students discovered that they could add more quickly by counting on and combining dice.  For example, if they rolled a 4, 1, 5 and 3, their thinking might be:  4 and 1 is 5, 5 and 5 is 10, 10 and 3 is 13!

(You can find a variety of Bump games on the internet that you can download for free.  Just search in Google images: "Bump math games free printables".)