Maths Game Linkup - 15th Dec

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Roll and Colour tasks are great for fluency in Maths.

This game is a freebie in our TPT store. It combines this fav task of mine as well as one of my fav books - Polar Express. 

There are three tasks (two sets - one with colour and one with color)

Click here for your freebie

    

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Sunday Night Game - 10th Nov 13

  

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This is called - SKY NUMBERS and is about $3 from iTunes.

It is aimed at senior primary and above and challenges students to make connections between 

Random numbers fall from the sky and 4 sets of clouds can hold them for a little while. The student uses basic math calculations to create equations for a certain total. If a digit falls through the last cloud the game is over.

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Our game for this week is.....

Give the Dog a Bone - click here to access

The game is great for fluency around numbers and where they sit on the gird. 

Each set is timed. 

The number you need to find is in the top circle and when you find the correct number you get a bone for the dog. 

You get to beat your time each time.

Kids love this and so will you. 

Now your turn. Please link up

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Our game this week is a dice game

With a partner roll two dice. Add the two collections together - starting with the biggest collection.

Then together work out a subtraction equation for the same two numbers. 

Record them on a small whiteboard. 

A challenge can be using three dice - addition is easy - but working out the order for three dice might be tricky!! You may not want to explain negative numbers just yet. 

Math Linky - 6th Oct

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Our game this week is "Guess my number?"

I do this on our IWB (Interactive Whiteboard) using the Notebook Program. I have inserted a 100 frame in a document to access quickly.

Decide a range of numbers - for this task we chose to go between 1 and 20.

We make all the numbers red before we start to show the range available.
A child has a number in mind and we ask questions to narrow it down.
This is great for place value/before and after.

If the first question is - is it smaller than six? - answer no.
We change the colour of the numbers that it is not.
Next - is it bigger than 17? - no, then change the colour of the numbers.

For students who need to see the visual this is great.
Keep asking questions until the number is named.

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Maths Linky #7

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Up to 100

You will need a calculator for each pair of students

 

The teacher tells the group to put a number between 0 and 10 in the calculator

Students take it in turns to add a number less then 20

The winner is the one that ends on 100

Students must tell their partner the strategy they are using to get to one hundred and be the winner

 

Variations -  go to a thousand or higher

Record your equations

 

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Don't forget to check out Teaching Maths with Meaning on Monday with Alison for her Math Game Monday

 

 

Maths Linky #6

GREEDY GOATS

This post is about a great game called Greedy Goats

(also known as Greedy Pigs).

This is a whole class game that develops student's mental addition skills and thereby improves both fluency and accuracy. This game also provides great opportunities to to discuss strategies (reasoning) used for mental computation - counting on, building to 10, doubles and near double etc.

 

What you will need...

• Students - paper and a pencil
• Teacher - six sided dice

 How to play...

• The class decides upon a 'Greedy Goat' number (for example... 2)
• All students stand up (at their tables), the teacher rolls the dice & calls out the number
• Students record the number that has been rolled (for example 5)
• The teacher rolls again, students mentally add this number on to the first number and record the result (for example, if the teacher rolled a 3, students would now have 5, 8 recorded)
• The teacher continues to roll the dice and students continue to add on and record their next answer (for example, 5, 8, 12, 18, 19, 22...)
• Students can choose to sit down at any time - when they sit down they put a circle around their tally and cannot join back in that round
• If the Greedy Goat number is rolled - any students still standing are out and their tally does not count - their total score for that round is 0
• Play three rounds and all students add up their three final round scores - the student with the highest overall score is the winner

Variations...

• When introducing the game - play together and teacher also records numbers for students to see
• Stop after every 5 rolls and check what number students are up to - anyone who is not correct, is out
• Use a dice with larger numbers (eg 20 sided dice)
• Select two Greedy Goat numbers
• To support students who find mental calculations difficult - allow them to use a calculator
• Only say the number once (if students are not listening - they will miss the number and will be out)
• Choose a starting number (for example 100) and get students to subtract from this number, rather than adding on. Students with the lowest number at the end of three rounds will be the winner
• For extension - use dice with fractions/decimals

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Don't forget to check out Teaching Maths with Meaning on Monday with Alison for her Math Game Monday

 

Maths Linky #5

Join us for our Sunday night Maths link

 

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Our game this week is 'Facts about my Number' it is a freebie, so go grab it from our TPT store

 

 

 

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Sunday is here and it is time to share a Maths game.

Here is our game/task for this week!

 

Counting Cakes - for trusting the count

 

Have students make cakes from play dough and count them.

Move them and ask how many are there?

Can we start counting from the other end? Why or why not?

Start in the middle - will there be the same number of cakes.

If they can't do this - start with three objects and increase with one cake at a time.

 

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1. Write a blog post about a maths game

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