Maths Card Game 10 in a row - Choosing and using operations

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Thanks to Michael Ymer for another great game suitable for students from Prep to Year 6.

Children play game in pairs. All picture cards removed leaving numbers 1 – 10.

Place 10 cards face up in a row. The remainder of the deck kept together face down. Students take it in turn rolling a ten sided dice [ Can use a six sided dice ]. Using the number that is displayed the student is challenged to use combinations of cards to equal the number. Cards used to make the answer are collected and kept by each student and then replaced from the deck. The game continues until all cards have been used. Young children will use addition / subtraction to make answers using two cards. Older or more able students can use any combination of operations, decimals, negative numbers, fractions, order of operations etc and use up to five cards. Students need to articulate how they make the answer, trying to gather more cards than their partner.

Variations

Use six sided dice. Offer counters that can be added to total collection of cards at end of game for using operations and signs other than addition or subtraction.

Roll two dice making a two digit number as the target.

Card Game: Odd or Even - Reading numbers and identifying odd and even numbers

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A another great game from Michael Ymer suitable for students from Prep to Year 6.

Two students place a deck of cards in front of them face down. Kings, Jacks, Tens and Jokers  removed. The Queens represent zero and the Aces represent one. Students take it in turns taking one card at a time. Before they flip it over and read out the number they guess whether or not it is odd or even. [Children can draft a sheet with odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other side and place a counter on their guess before flipping the card. This stops arguments about what was and wasn’t said.] If the child guesses correctly he/she keeps the card. If he guessed incorrectly the card is given to his/her partner Keep playing until the cards have all been used. The student with the most cards wins that game. Cards are shuffled and a new game begins.

Teachers may wish to assess a student’s ability to read numbers by asking him/her to press a number on the calculator and read it. If successful press another and so on. This will tell you if a child can read 2, 3, or more digit numbers and can help pair students appropriately. Allow children to play game up to one digit further than they can read so that learning can be extended.

Variations

Play the game with more than one card. The focus is not identifying odd and even numbers as children read larger numbers. The focus is correctly reading and saying 2,3,4,5 etc digit numbers.

Maths game to improve four operations understanding from Michael Ymer

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Thanks again to Michael Ymer for another great maths warm up game.

10 in a row- Choosing and using operations

A game suitable for students from Prep to Year 6.

Children play game in pairs. All picture cards removed leaving numbers 1 – 10.

Place 10 cards face up in a row. The remainder of the deck kept together face down. Students take it in turn rolling a ten sided dice [ Can use a six sided dice ]. Using the number that is displayed the student is challenged to use combinations of cards to equal the number. Cards used to make the answer are collected and kept by each student and then replaced from the deck. The game continues until all cards have been used. Young children will use addition / subtraction to make answers using two cards. Older or more able students can use any combination of operations, decimals, negative numbers, fractions, order of operations etc and use up to five cards. Students need to articulate how they make the answer, trying to gather more cards than their partner.

Variations

Use six sided dice. Offer counters that can be added to total collection of cards at end of game for using operations and signs other than addition or subtraction.

Roll two dice making a two digit number as the target.

Teaching Decimals, Fractions and Percentages

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 Thanks to Scott @ mytopten.com.au

Plan a Park(by theBBC SkillwiseTeam) is a fantastic game for the children to play to learn about Fractions, Decimals and Percentages.

Use it in your class to teach your children about the 100 parts of a whole. Describe to your children what the percentages mean and have them look at what happens when they add parts to the park. They will notice that all percentages change, but all add up to a total of 100% (or 1 whole park).

This game also work with fractions and decimals and is a great way of teaching the children the equivalent decimals and fractions to the percentages.

Teaching Area, Scale and Percentages by Designing a New School

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Thanks to Scott @ mytopten.com.au for this

Here's a quick idea for you to use when teaching children (especially upper 5/6s) how to work out area. I have the example that we are currently using above.

Firstly you will need to explain that the students will be working on designing a new school and as part of this they will need to work out the area of particular items such as playground, buildings, etc. Secondly, I would revisit basic area and the processes to work out area to the children. I can recommend a good site that will assist with this here:

BGFL -Perimeter and Area

After this you will need to take a couple of days working through the process of working out the area of different shaped objects. We can do this by looking at how to work out the area of a triangle and the area of a circle.

Here are another couple of good sites:

Mrs Glossers Math Goodies

Mathsteacher.com.au

Mathsisfun.com

Once you have finished teaching the general rules for working out area, it will be time for the children to start looking at the dimensions of the land that they have to deal with and what will be the percentage of land to allocate to each of the items on the list.

Allow the children to work out the area of the land by using the L X W Rule. Then have them to work out the percentages of the land by dividing the whole area by 100 and then multiplying it by the relevant percentage (i.e 30 for 30%).

Once the children have completed all of their calculations, have them think about the area of one square on the page. This will then allow them to work out how many squares will go into the 30% of land by dividing the 30% of land figure by the area of 1 square. The children will then be able to allocate the area on the image above.

The task allows for great exploration and should only be used for years 5/6/7.

If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to leave a comment and I will do the best to answer your query.

Teaching Length, Mass and Capacity with Teaching Measures

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Are you after an interactive and independent learning item for length, mass and capacity? Here it is. Teaching measures has developed this great interactive page with dozens of links to interactive games. Each of the activities has a worksheet to accompany it, so if your looking for reinforcement and practise, this site is it.

Visit Teaching Measures

Teaching Problem Solving Strategies with a Maths Toolbox

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Thanks to Scott @ mytopten.com.au

Teaching children to become problem solvers is one of the most beneficial things, we as teachers, can ever do. The ability to look at a complex problem and have an array of strategies to assist you in solving it, is arguably one of the highest ranking tools for the 21stcentury child. Think about it for a while? Where have you seen children being problem solvers? Where in life, have you had to be a problem solver?

As I was talking to a friend last night, they were telling me about a problem that they were currently having. The problem was money-based and they couldn’t see how they could solve it. I asked them what problem solving strategies they were taught at school and the response was “none”. I was astonished! How could a 30 year old male in today’s society not be taught any problem solving skills. I then went on to tell my friend about the maths toolbox and how we were using it to teach children how to be effective problem solvers. We then worked on ‘Breaking it down into smaller parts’ and he automatically was able to identify one possible solution.

There are thirteen components to the Maths Toolbox. Each should be modelled how to use and then given time to practise with a similar problem. I have linked to examples that may assist you in teaching them.

So here it is…

The Maths Toolbox

Interactive Maths Games for Students

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Allanah has put together a great wiki of basic number facts that include downloadable pdfs and web sites to support learning basic facts in her class.

To download your year level just click on it and it should end up on your desktop. Allanah has promised she will add more links and levels in time.

It is a great resource and I highly recommend it for all primary / elementary teachers.  Take a look at ithere.