Here’s a game to practice mental addition and subtraction. Although this may seem simple for older children, please don’t underestimate the importance of being able to add and subtract mentally and keep practising with smaller numbers.
What do you need?
12 bottle tops, labelled 1-12.
Two dice
Paper or whiteboard is optional.
How to Play:
Lay the bottle tops in numerical order on the floor or table.
Roll both dice and choose whether you want to add or subtract the two numbers together.
Whatever answer you get, turn the corresponding bottle top over.
The aim of the game is to see if you can flip all of the bottle tops over before your three lives run out. You lose a life when you roll a dice and you can’t make one of the numbers that are left to be flipped.
This game could also be played using all four operations if you wanted to add an extra challenge. You could also have bottle tops from 1-36 if you want to include multiplication and division.
