1. Practical tasks, games and ‘real-life’ challenges
SCITT Day 10
Practical tasks, games and ‘real-life’ challenges

2. Dingbats
What well-known phrases or sayings are represented by each picture?
(There is a mathematical link)
Answer:
‘Divide and conquer’

5. Noughts and Crosses Just to get you thinking!! Top tips? Strategies?
3x3
4x4

6. Move any 4 to form 3 squares

7. Add 8 to form 4 identical shapes

8. Choose one from each row
Choose one from each row. Use the clues to work out the two numbers used… Reflect: What strategies did you use?

9. Digit cards (i) You will need one set of 0 to 9 digit cards
And a series of ‘challenge statements’
a number greater than 50
an even number
a multiple of 10
as near to 75 as you can
a number less than 10
Use the digit cards to try to make numbers matching each card. Each card may only be used once.
Make up another list of challenges to challenge your table

10. Digit Cards (ii) You will need 1 set of 1 to 9 cards
Shuffle the cards and lay them in a line face up on the table
You must try to make a continuous number sentence starting at the first number and finishing with the last, using only addition and subtraction, and having a total as near to 10 as you can

11. League
Players gain points for a win or draw. Every one plays each other.
Knockout
After each game, one player goes through to the next round of the competition whilst the other is ‘out’.
‘Round Robin’
Mini-leagues create winners that are then placed in knockout finals.
Leaderboard
Lists players in the competition – randomly ‘placed’.
The bottom half might be removed/ cut part way through OR
Players can challenge one or two positions above their position. If the ‘lower’ beats the ‘higher’ then positions are swapped. After an agreed time the top-of-the-list is the winner.

12. Strategy Games
‘Counters’

13. Dominoes Are dominoes a good resource for primary maths? The original…
Maltese Cross
Odds and evens
Pairs
Number Hurdles
Fault Lines

14. Games for thinking Ideas for adaptations? Target 24 – in Pairs
Use any numbers from 1 to 10 (once and once only) to add cumulatively.
The player that makes ‘24’ wins.
Ideas for adaptations?

15. Online www.mathsisfun.com www.nrich.org.uk Games and puzzles
National Curriculum link document ‘G’

16. Mathematical Games Share your games…
What was the intended learning objective?
Does the game support that learning intention?
How could the game be adapted?