Chicken scramble

Suggested content:

Whole numbers: Read, represent and order numbers to thousands 

• Group physical or virtual objects to show the structure of tens, hundreds and a thousand 

• Regroup numbers flexibly, recognising one thousand as 10 hundreds and one hundred as 10 tens or 100 ones 

Whole numbers: Apply place value to partition and regroup numbers up to 4 digits 

• Record numbers using standard place value form 

• Partition numbers of up to 4 digits in non-standard forms 

Equipment

• Indoor or outdoor playing area

• Red, yellow, green and blue counters (to act as grain) or similar

• Hoops (1 per 2 students) 

• Chalk 

• Student workbooks or white boards 

Activity set-up

• Arrange hoops spaced 2 metres apart in a circle in a flat area. 

• Place a large collection of counters, ‘grain’, in the middle of a large, flat surface. (NB: It is important for student safety to spread these out to avoid students running into each other) 

• Inform students of the value of each coloured counters: Red - thousands, Yellow - hundreds, Green - tens, Blue - ones