![]() ![]() ![]() Encourage groups to talk to one another about the game and the rules.Organise your pupils into groups of five or six, and provide each group with a game.You will need to make several copies of the game or you could involve pupils to help you make their own copies. See Resource 1: Number bond games for how to play, and ways to adapt the game. If you have older pupils you could adapt this game using other numbers and sums. This game enables your pupils to practise their simple number bonds and use their observational and memory skills. You should play any games yourself first, so you know the rules and can explain them clearly to your class. Miss Isah also found that her pupils were more eager to come to class and she decided to use more games in her class in future. She found that there was a small group of pupils who were less sure of adding numbers mentally and she gave these pupils extra opportunities to play and planned other mental arithmetic sessions for them. The rest of the class worked on practice exercises and she divided her time between supporting those playing and the rest of the class (See Key Resource: Using group work in your classroom). She used the same game each day with one group at a time for a week. She decided to introduce similar games into her teaching to find out if all her pupils could add up. In each game the winner was the first pupil to score 20 points, and Miss Isah noticed how some of her pupils were better than others at adding scores together. The boys rolled balls through numbered arches on a table and the girls tossed beanbags onto a target. Miss Isah, a Primary 2 teacher in Nigeria, found that her pupils enjoyed playing number games at break time. ![]()
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