Go fish!

Partially covered arrays

Collect resources

You will need:

  • a set of game cards (with pictures of different partially covered arrays and their matching product)

  • someone to play with.

Watch the video to learn how to play

Transcript

Transcript coming soon.

How to play

  • Each player gets 7 cards. The rest of the cards are placed in a pile in the middle as the draw pile.

  • Players try to make matches, connecting a picture card (partially covered array) with a number (a product card).

  • Once players can't make any more matches using their own cards, they can take turns to ask their opponent for a card.

    • If their opponent has the card, they must give it to the asking player.

    • If they don't, they say 'go fish' and the player gets a card from the pile in the middle.

  • If at any point a player has no cards left, they can pick up another 7 cards from the draw pile.

  • Play continues until all there are no cards left in the draw pile and/or all matches have been made.

  • The player with the most matches at the end is the winner!

Other ways to play

  • To challenge yourself and extend the number range, add the expansion pack to the gamecards.

Discuss/ reflect

  • What strategies did you use to work out how many dots were in the array? 

  • Was there a product that had more than one matching array? Could there have been other arrays that matched the product? Which ones?

  • If you played the game again tomorrow, what’s an adaptation we could make?