While today is the last day we'll celebrate Maths Week in school it continues until Sunday. Your challenge for the weekend is to play some maths games. Games involving dice and/or playing cards are excellent for developing children’s sense of number. Here are some of our favourites:
- Snakes and Ladders
- Snap
- Matching Pairs
- Bingo
- Go Fish
Here a new game that you might not have played before. It is played using a deck of cards, with the picture cards removed.
Make Ten Pairs: This game is played in a similar way to matching pairs.
- All number cards are laid out on a table face down.
- Players take turns to find the numbers that go together to make ten e.g. 1+9, 2+8, 3+7, 4+6, 5+5. If you find a pair of cards that make 10, you keep them.
- The winner is the player with the most pairs of cards making ten.
For an added challenge, count the number of tens you have e.g. 3 pairs of tens = 30!
