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Middle/Uppers - on Steve Wyborney's website there are extensions including extended numbers, fractions and decimals. Click here to check it out.

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You will need:

• deck of cards

• counters

• dice

• cup (optional)

Player 1 starts by flipping one playing card and counting out that amount of counters. Cover to hide or put into cup.

Player 2 rolls a die and collects that amount of counters. They then trust the count of the counters hidden (or in the cup) and count on. An extension is to practise recording the addition number sentence.

How to play this sequencing card game:

• to be played in partners or small groups.

• place 4 cards face up and divide the rest amongst the players.

• players have to get rid of their cards as quickly as possibly by placing a consecutive number that is only one higher or lower than the piles in the middle.

• Optional: Jacks, Queens, Kings can be kept in as 11, 12, 13 and the Joker as a wildcard (any number of the player's choosing)

You will need:

• Deck of cards

• Timer

• Mini-whiteboard & marker (optional scaffold)

Set a timer for one minute. One player is the flipper and the other player is reading the card, identifying and saying the number sentence to make 10 (bridge to 10). Eg. a 6 card is flipped and the reading player must say "6 and 4 make 10". Continue through cards until the timer goes off. Count the number of cards read in the minute and that is the reader's score. Players are not playing against each other but record their score to achieve their personal best.

All picture cards (Jacks, Queens, Kings) are 10. Jokers to be removed.

This game can be differentiated:

• number identification

• one more / one less

• times tables

• add 10

• bridge to 20

The whiteboards are used to write all possible answers as a scaffold.

Each player starts with 10 face down cards in two rows. The aim of the game is to get the top row from 1-5 and the bottom from 6-10.

The player to start flips the card from the pile and they are to place that card in its numbered position. Put in place and take the face down card and place in its sequenced position. Continue until you can't make any more moves. If you cannot place the next card or you pick up a King or Jack, it is 'trash' and it must be discarded for the next player's turn. The next player may choose to pick the top card off the 'trash' pile if it is helpful to them. If you pick up a Queen, this can be placed anywhere as a wild card.

First person to have all cards face up in the order wins that round (or the game).

If you are the winner, the idea is that you start again but you only need to sequence numbers 1-9.

They are broken up into F-2 and 3-5 - Number, operations and other

You will need:

• 1 die

• Paper and pencil

Set up:

• Draw a game board like in Noughts and Crosses (two lines horizontally and two vertically to make 9 boxes).

• The aim of the game is to complete boxes that add up to 6.

• When you finish a box of 6, write your initial inside the box to claim it.

• The player with the most boxes claimed at the end wins!

How to play:

• Player 1 rolls the die and draws that many dots in one box.

  • If they roll a 6, they fill the box completely, write their initial, and claim it.

  • If they roll a smaller number (e.g. 4), they draw 4 dots in a box.

• Player 2 then rolls the die. They may:

  • Start a new box, or

  • Add to an existing box (as long as the total does not go above 6). Example: If there are already 4 dots in a box and they roll a 2, they can add to make 6 and claim the box.

• You cannot split your dice roll between boxes.

• If your roll cannot be placed (because it would make a box go over 6), you skip your turn.

• Keep playing until all boxes are claimed.

Winning:

Count the boxes with your initials — the player with the most wins!

Perhaps the students can even create their own masterpieces!

Look through and find questions targeted to Years 1 & 2, Years 3 & 4 and Years 5 & 6.

Videos for each question and some include already prepared task sheets to go with it.

Usually played in partners, but you could try groups of 3!.

How to play

• Shuffle the deck and deal the cards evenly between players.

• Players place their pile face down in front of them.

• On the count of three, each player turns over two cards at the same time.

• Players mentally add the values of their two cards.

• The player with the highest total wins the round and receives one tally point.

• Continue playing rounds until all cards have been used.

• The player with the most tally points at the end of the game wins.

If you want to practise multiplication fluency, multiply the two cards rather than adding. Another great challenge!