Find 3 ways you can play the game tug of war so you can improve your addition and subtraction skills! The first game involves addition only.
You will need: at least one partner to play with, number cards.
Start the game with 2500 points for every person playing the game.
Then, the first player takes three 0-9 cards and makes a 3 digit number. Player 1 then uses column addition to add the number to 2500.
Next, player 2 does the same.
Keep taking it in turns until the first person reaches a total of 5000.
The second version of the game involves using subtraction.
You will need: at least one partner to play with, number cards.
Start the game with 2500 points for every person playing the game.
Then, the first player takes three 0-9 cards and makes a 3 digit number. Player 1 then uses column subtraction to subtract the number from 2500.
Next, player 2 does the same.
Keep playing until one person gets to 0 or the closest possible to 0.
The third version of this game involves using both addition and subtraction. This will improve your skills of swapping between the different operations.
You will need: at least one partner to play with, number cards.
Start the game with 2500 points for every person playing the game.
Then, the first player takes three 0-9 cards and makes a 3 digit number. Player 1 then uses column addition to add the number to 2500.
Next, the second player takes three 0-9 cards and makes a 3 digit number. Player 2 then uses column subtraction to subtract the number from 2500.
Players keep playing until player 1 reaches 5000 or player 2 makes a number closest to 0.
When playing again the players can swap to the opposite operation.
Key vocabulary:
(+) Addition, add, plus, altogether, total, sum.
(-) Subtraction, subtract, minus.
Closest, greater than, less than, difference.