Prehistoric pals make this award-winning math game a blast. Roll the dice and move the dinosaurs around a delightfully illustrated game board. Learn all about numbers - from counting, addition and subtraction to place value skills. Includes game board, 16 dinosaurs, cards, number die and instructions for various levels of play. For 2 to 4 players.

The Dino Math Tracks game provides multiple levels of play for a variety of ages. At the simplest level (perfect for a first-grader who knows Arabic numerals and one-to-one correspondence), kids use only the place track for the 1s. Later, cards with simple problems are introduced ("Stuck in a tar pit! Move your 10s dino back two spaces!"). At the most advanced level, players might encounter a question like this: "Your 10s dinosaur forgot its pants, so it went back 15 to get them. Then it hurried forward 25. How far did it get? Move that many." Young players will find the 2-inch, spunky vinyl dinosaur playing pieces irresistible. The game offers plenty of opportunities for friendly competition and brain bending--not to mention lots of nonthreatening practice at addition and subtraction. --Julie Ubben

The Dino Math Tracks game (winner of several prestigious awards, including an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal) is a race around the rainbow with a pack of pintsize, prehistoric pals. An unusual spin on a typical roll-the-dice-and-move game, it spotlights the mathematical concept of place value and gives kids reinforcement in what makes our base-10 number system tick. Each player is allotted one dinosaur for each of the four tracks (the tracks are labeled 1s, 10s, 100s, and 1000s). To play, a player rolls four dice to create a 4-digit number and then moves his or her prehistoric posse to the appropriate 1s, 10s, 100s, and 1000s places. Problem-solving strategies are honed as players scurry to get all four miniature mammoths or tiny triceratops into the dino haven, ahead of the other players' thundering herds. But look out! In the race to dino utopia, it's easy to get bumped by a baby brachiosaurus!

Age: 6 - 9 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 1.8 x 10 x 19.8
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Awards:

• Family Fun magazine Toy of the Year Runner-up (1992)
• Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal, Best Toy Award (1993)
• Early Childhood News, 100 Best Product Picks (1993)
• Canadian Toy Testing Council Three Star Seal

Customer reviews :

A real winner! December 27, 2003
Micole Roy (Sugar Land, Texas USA)
42 out of 44 found this review helpful

This game is great! The tiny dinos spark my 5 year-old son's imagination and enable him to have so much fun that he does not realize he is learning. Furthermore, he does not want to stop!!! He learned place value up to the thousands during our first game. After each roll of the dice the player uses all four dice to make a number and then s/he reads the number aloud (i.e. if you roll 6666 you say six thousand six hundred and sixty six). As we move our dinos around the board T.R. looks forward to our pieces landing on the same track so that we can have a "Showdown". In a "Showdown" you simply have to roll a dice and the person who gets the larger number wins. However, we move our dinos to the middle of the board and have a miniature battle. The player who rolled the larger number wins the battle. The loser is sent back home and the winner gets to move ahead. After playing the game a couple of times without using the cards - which is the simplest level of play with this game - my son asked to use the cards. So on Day 2 we began using the cards. Again he uses his imagination and does a great deal of role play as he carries out the instructions. It fills my heart with delight to see his excitement and to see that he has truly learned how to read numbers up to the thousands. (T.R. learned to read when he was 4 so he independently reads the dice and reads the cards.)

As a parent I highly recommend Dino Math Tracks because kids quickly learn a lot while having loads of fun. This game can be played at three levels, so it grows with your child.

my 5 yr old loves this game! January 14, 2006
Quot Libros (GA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

She already knew how to add and subtract, but place value was a new concept for her. Boy, she learned it immediately, the game was so much fun for her and add in the cards and you have more addition/subtraction practice in there as well! ;) She loves to play this game, I really like the concept and the bright colors.

I just love it when learning is fun for children! That is how it should be, not dry or boring. Your child will love this game.

Great Math learning tool and lots of fun December 22, 2007
TexyInAustin (Austin, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I purchased this for my 6 yr old as a Christmas present but we opened it a few days early. He really loves it. I really enjoy playing it with him. Some of the math problems he needs help with but he is willing to work through them problems. We keep a pad and pen close by. The cards are a little thin (more like cut paper) but that is the only negative of the entire review.

good value December 29, 2009
S. Barnett (Montgomery,TX)
My daughter is age 6 in 1st grade. We just started playing the game and so we are starting with using 3 dice instead of 4. I love how this game has different ways to play as they get older and understand place value more. We are just at the very beginning level so I look forward to showing her more as she gets older. The plastic dinosaur pieces are great and she loves the "HUGE" dice. That alone caught her attention right away. The board is colorful and sturdy also.


easy learning fun August 4, 2010
J. copenhaver (Omaha, NE United States)
Great game. Super fun concept. Various versions and ways to play allow for the game to grow with kids. Really neat learning tool!

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