This simple card game is a fun way to enhance students’ critical thinking and problem solving skills while practicing their math facts. Students can play competitively with up to three other students or play on their own using a timer. Players take turns using their four number cards to make consecutive whole numbers. For example, the first player must use any of the four cards and addition, subtraction, division or multiplication to reach the number one, the next player number two, and so on. Play continues until either the next consecutive solution cannot be made or an incorrect answer is presented. This is a great educational game to practice math facts and order of operations and it becomes increasingly more challenging as the game progresses.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Adults would enjoy playing with a child
• For electronic games, gives positive or encouraging feedback
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Does not require excessive set-up time after first time use
• Can be fun as a single player game
• Multi-player game which fosters collaboration or cooperation
• Well-made for the cost
• For electronic games, can play without sound
• For electronic games, allows user to save work
• For electronic games, voice/sounds are appealing and pronounces words properly
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Numerical Fluency
• Requires multi-step mental math
• Requires remembering a series of numbers or completing mulitple steps using numbers

Albert's Insomnia makes learning math fun. Albert can't sleep and he needs help counting his sheep. This is a mental math game that requires players to think and solve equations. Albert's Insomnia helps with mental math, math facts, learning order of operations, critical and creative thinking skills practice and so much more. Can be played in small groups or collaboratively in a large group or classroom.