ThinkFun Math Dice - Engaging Mental Math Skill Game | Great for Kids Age 8 and Up | Fun Educational Activity | Compact and Travel-Friendly...

Bought this for my nephew for Christmas. He's 9 and loves math and he is so far 2 grades ahead of his peers. So I was really grateful he loved it. So score one for auntie!

This set will be a great study aide for learning basic math. Still waiting for the kids to try it out. Hope it will be fun too. Wish the instruction booklet was larger.

Sa soon as I saw the one for kids, I realized this would be a great game to keep older minds sharp. It is, too. Very easy to figure out and play. Highly recommend it for kids of all ages. Even comes with a small sack to store it in. Great for gits and traveling.

Very simple and fun game. You roll the two white dice and multiply the numbers together to get your "target" number. Then you roll the three blue dice, and the player to come up with the "math sentence" that has an answer closest to the target number wins the round. You can add, subtract, multiply, divide, group the numbers, and use exponents. I bought this as a summer activity to help my 5th grader work on memorizing math facts and perform mental math. Within minutes he was grouping, multiplying, dividing, and even using exponents (which he had never done before--learned it instantly!). Effective and fun way to boost math skills. He continued to play for over an hour by himself after we finished playing our first game!

I chose this game to hoping it would help my ten and twelve year old daughters with their mental arithmetic. We have a number of word games we play on a regular basis, and I wanted some math based games to balance out the collection. Within 2 days f getting the game, my 10 year old had learned about raising numbers to the power of 1 by playing the game with her Dad and Uncle. She plays with them, and can beat them at it enough times to make her want to continue playing.She plays by herself as well, and because the game is so compact and fits neatly into the little pouch that came with it, she has also taken to carrying it around with her when she is going anywhere that she might have to sit and wait. Her father's comment was that they need more than 3 dice to get the target number more often so he added 2 more to the original 3 that came with the game. This is definitely a great game, for kids (and adults), and would also perhaps be a good addition to classroom activities which incorporate fun ways to practice math concepts. I would highly recommend it.