Array bingo

How to play

• Each player creates a gameboard using 6 array cards. Set aside the remaining array cards.

• Place the descriptor cards in a pile, face down

• Turn over a descriptor card. If a player has the matching array card on their gameboard, they may turn the array card over.

• If both players have the matching array card, they can both turn over their cards.

• If neither player has the matching array card, turn over the next descriptor card in the pile.

• Players can use the commutative property to rotate the arrays, so they can make a match. For example, they could take an array that was structured as 3 twos and rotate it to show 2 threes. 

• The winner is the first player to turn over all their cards and say ‘bingo!’

Other ways to play

• Swap how the piles of cards are used in the game. Make a gameboard from the descriptor cards and turn over the array cards.

Discuss/reflect

• What arrays did you rotate to make a match?

• Did rotating the arrays change the total number of dots? Why/why not?

• What strategies did you use to determine how many dots there are in the arrays?

• Were there any arrays where you knew how many dots there were? Which ones?