Play a fun game practicing your addition skills. How close to 50 can you get?
You will need: number cards, timer, something to record your working out on.
Both players select 4 playing cards.
With the 4 cards they have 2 minutes to use the cards to make addition number sentences. The number sentence closest to 50 scores 1 point. If the player creates a calculation with exactly 50 as the answer, they earn 2 points.
The winner is the player with the most points after 5 rounds.
Play a fun game practicing your addition skills. How close to 100 can you get?
You will need: number cards, timer, something to record your working out on.
Both players select 4 playing cards.
With the 4 cards they have 2 minutes to use the cards to make addition number sentences. The number sentence closest to 100 scores 1 point. If the player creates a calculation with exactly 100 as the answer, they earn 2 points.
The winner is the player with the most points after 5 rounds.
Play a fun game practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills. How close to 1,000 can you get?
You will need: number cards, timer, something to record your working out on.
Both players select 5 playing cards.
With the 5 cards they have 2 minutes to use the cards to make the target number using any operation. The number sentence closest to 1,000 scores 1 point. If the player creates a calculation with exactly 1,000 as the answer, they earn 2 points.
The winner is the player with the most points after 5 rounds.
Key vocabulary:
(+) Addition, add, plus, altogether, total, sum.
(-) Subtraction, subtract, minus.
(x) Multiplication, times, times tables, multiply.
(÷) Division, divide, share, equal.