Category Archives: Numeracy

The Dice Game

Adding and subtraction practice is important, but, if we’re honest, a page of ‘sums’ is not the most exciting prospect for your pupil brought up on a diet of X-Box and X-Factor. The solution – trick ’em into doing sums using ‘The Dice Game’ I get the children to draw some lines in the form […]

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Countdown!

Countdown – one of my favourite games. Given 6 numbers, using add, take-away, times and divide, can you make the target number? You can only use each number once, but you don’t have to use ever number Here’s a few for you to try Given the numbers: 4  7  8  2  10  100 Targets: 734 […]

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The answer is …

The answer is … … what is the question? Related posts: Powers, answer books and Mrs Krabapple moments Estimation Fun, but infuriating! Nicky Morgan joins the club …

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