Classroom Support with Mrs Spackman
Maths Game of the Week
Kinder, Years 1, 2 or 3
Friends of 10
How to:
Take 4 cards from the deck
Turn them over
If you can make a total of 10 collect them and put to the side. Leave the cards in, that you did not use. Replace the used cards from the deck.
If you cannot make 10, choose one card to replace. Put it at the bottom of the deck and choose a new card from the top.
Play until you can no longer make 10. Player 2 has a turn.
The winner is the person with the most cards in their saved pile at the end of the game.
Years 4, 5 & 6
Target Number Skill: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division
How To:
- Pick a random number in the thousands (or hundreds) and write it on a page.
- Tell your children it is their TARGET NUMBER.
- Use 36 cards: 1 (Ace) to 9 Cards drawn
One child picks 5 cards from the deck, next game the other child gets a turn
- Students use any of the five numbers with any math operation, or a combination of operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) to write an equation with an answer that is as close to the target number as possible. They can combine any of the 5 cards to make 1, 2 or 3 digit numbers in their equation
- The closest child wins!
For Example:
Target number is 5000
Player 1: Draws out 5,5,9,4,7 so she/he makes 55 x 94 - 7 = 5163
Player 2: Makes 975 x 5 + 4 = 4879
So Player 2 wins!
