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First To Reach Ten

All of the players in the car pick a license plate number together, for example, 9MBR318.  Eliminate the letters, which leaves the numbers 9, 3, 1, and 8.  Using only the numbers from the license plate and the processes of addition, subtraction, and multiplication, each player tries to create as many new numbers as possible [...]

A Nighttime Carschooling Adventure

Here’s a quick game to help kids understand the math concepts of “greater than,” “less than,” and “equal to.”  Everyone finds one license plate on a passing car and copies it down on a piece of paper.  Remove the letters in the license plate, leaving just the numbers.  Each person takes a turn reading his [...]

Driving in Circles

Each car has at least 5 circles.  Can you find them?

Answer: 1 steering wheel, 4 tires, 1 spare tire, knobs, speedometers, etc.  When looking for circles, tell your carschoolers about parts of circles and see if they can find the ones listed here:

Arc: A curved line that is part of the circumference of a circle
Circumference: [...]