Games,+Starters+etc

The following three files are the Visual Brainstorms there are three degrees of difficulty.. Each file will have a question card and then the answers on the card following. .

[|www.primarygames.co.uk] - FANTASTIC website full of mostly add-sub games. These are ideal for playing on an interactive whiteboard as kids or groups can come up and manipulate them. I have tried some with my Y9s and they LOVE it. Good ones I have used so far are: - Spin To Win (Place Value - spin the wheel and place the resulting digit somewhere in a 5-digit arrangement. Winner gets the highest arrangement and gains points equal to the difference between the two players' numbers. This generated some great discussion re strategy eg some students could tell that they couldn't win even though there were several boxes yet to be filled) - Inequalities (Place Value - arrange cards so that number on LHS is less than RHS or vice versa - bonus points if the numbers have the greatest possible difference) - Tiles (basic facts and operations - like an interactive version of Bowl a Fact - given 3 numbers, create an equation and cover up the solution on the game board. One player / team wins when the other player / team cannot use the numbers generated to cover any other numbers on the board) - Speed Grid Challenge (Add Sub - given a total, select two numbers from a grid which add or subtract to form the total. I lined up all the boys in the class and timed them for a set number of questions as they each came up and answered one, then lined up all the girls to see if they could do it faster!) - Sum Sense (select add / sub / mult / div - arrange given digit cards to form a true equation. Timed!)

but be careful to make sure the decimals are shown with correct number of decimal places! before you print out the cards. Also remember you have to print out a set for each fraction you want in the pack...









.....a board game - print out the board and your choice of number and ad/sub cards. Roll a die, move around the track when you land on black spiral pick a number card and add/sub number card (near a multiple of 10) use round and compensate to answer, if correct move one square forward, if wrong one back.... if you land on the red spiral you have to answer a question chosen by every other player, moving forward or backward for each question asked.



Jim Hogan's extension of Yahtzee - students play with 10-sided dice and look for everything from repeated numbers (three of a kind etc) to Pythagorean triples or fibbonaci sequence patterns!

TARSIA - Free programme for creating jigsaw puzzles and domino activities. Lets you input mathematical functions and symbols. You enter pairs of matching expressions e.g. 2(x +3) and 2x + 6, then it mixes them up to form a jigsaw. Gives you a mixed up jigsaw template for kids to cut out, a solution sheet, and a table of the paired expressions. If you want to make it extra hard you can also input "red herring" expressions that don't match anything which are placed around the border. Beware - this makes the puzzle EXTREMELY hard for kids! To install just double click the setup file here: User manual: A whole collection of pre-made jigsaws (not by me!):