Maths at home

Remember to use any opportunity at home to continue developing maths skills. Click on the link below for some great ideas from the Victorian Education website. 

http://numeracyguidedet.global2.vic.edu.au/numeracy-at-home/

 Salute

You need: three people and a deck of cards (picture cards removed). 

Shuffle the cards and place them face down in the middle of a table. Two people pick up one card each (without looking at the number) and place them on their foreheads. The third person adds the two cards together and calls out the total. 

The two players look at each other's card and with their knowledge of addition they can work out what the number on their forehead should be. 

For example the players pick up the cards 6 (player 1) and 7 (player 2) and place them on their forehead (no peeking). The third player calls out 13 (because that’s the total of 6 plus 7). Total is 13. 

Player 1 looks at the 7 on player 2’s forehead and can ask themselves “7 plus what equals 13”. Player 1 calls out 6. 

Player two discovers 6 add what equals 13 and calls out 7. 

There are no winners or losers in this game. We are just trying to be accurate and improve automatic recall of basic facts. 

Mike Shaw