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This is another TARGET game for the whole class to play as a lesson starter.
You want to win so THINK MATHEMATICALLY! You want to get the answer to the subtraction close to 1000. So make your top number about ONE THOUSAND more than the bottom number.
You will need a set […]
Below are three addition- subtraction problems that are classified into Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3.
Level 1: Find the sums and difference of the numbers indicated on the diagram (vertically/horizontally)
Level 2: Fill in the empty boxes such that the sums (difference) of the horizontally and vertically arranged numbers satisfy the given […]
Replace the letters in FOOT + BALL = GAME with numbers to make the sum correct. Each letter represents a different digit.
Here is one example: F=1, O=9, T=4, B=6, A=5, L=3, G=8, M=2, E=7
How many solutions can you find?
There are 224 solutions altogether.
You can work with pencil and […]
A collection of activities and games to develop a confident understanding of place value and decimals and skills at calculating with decimals and estimating the results of decimal calculations.
Click here to download a pdf with all you need to run your own professional development workshop.
Choose pairs of these numbers to make the total of each pair as close to eleven thousand as possible?
Which total is closest to eleven thousand?
Which pair of numbers has the largest total?
What number would you add to each of these 8 numbers to make eleven thousand?
You might […]
The challenge is to find numbers to replace the shapes and to make this addition sum correct.
Hint: Imagine adding up the tens column.
What number do you think has to go in the hundreds place? Why?
In the simpler number puzzles 1. and 2. put different numbers in place of the […]
Use the symbols > < 1 1 2 3 in the boxes to make correct number sentences.
For example 5.12 < 5.13 is correct and 5.21 >5.23 is wrong.
How many different sentences can you make?
How will you know when you have found them all?
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This collection of 6 games gives practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers and you can easily adapt them to include negative numbers and decimals. To win these games you will need to understand place value and how the calculations work and be able to estimate the results of calculations. These […]
Here is an alternative version of the “Think of a Number” trick.
Think of two whole numbers under 10.
Take one of them and add 1.
Multiply by 5.
Add 1 again.
Double your answer.
Subtract 1.
Add your second number.
Add 2.
Double […]
There are six numbers written in five different scripts.
Can you sort out which is which?
Write 51 in each script.
Click here for Notes for Teachers.
This activity was initially developed by SMILE (Secondary Mathematics Individualised Learning Experiment) by practising teachers in London in the 1970’s as one of a series of […]
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