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Great mental math resource that my kids loved. Tape the math problem cards to backs of chairs; behind doors; on cupboards etc and then pair the class up; give them a starting symbol and watch them go! Questions include addition; subtraction; multiplica
Tried this out today as a Monday morning 'math warm-up' with my P6-7 class! I am a student teacher and only on my 9th week of working with this class, so perhaps I didn't set it up in the correct way however the children soon cottoned on that the answer grid symbols followed on one after the other and several children began to find the symbol instead and just copy down the next answer rather than working it out. This became apparent when we re-grouped as a class and I used our talking sticks to question children as to their thinking and method and ways of working the question out..... just a thought to perhaps edit the grid if anyone downloads it and move the symbols about so they do not follow down in a successive line?! Apart from that, certainly seemed to get some brains thinking and the physical movement of hunting for the strips seemed to engage the children!
great idea - I like how this has the range of questions and the fact that these can be adapted also. Awesome!