AMSI’s games and warm-ups require little equipment or photocopying and can be used as classroom warm-ups, part of explicit teaching, independent practice or cool downs.

 

Most of the games have variations and can be adapted to suit different levels.

 

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Duck in a Bucket

Duck in a Bucket

Learning Objective: Develop mental addition and subtraction strategies using non-standard partitions. Intended Outcome: Using known facts, number structure and other ...
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ROWCO

ROWCO

ROWCO is a card game that will help students practice their addition facts while playing an engaging strategy game ...
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Pass The Count

Pass The Count

This game allows students to practice their skip counting skills in small groups ...
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Bunny Ears

Bunny Ears

This quick game encourages students to use their fingers to model numbers in different ways ...
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Grid Games

Grid Games

Learning Objective: Give clear directions, follow directions and use coordinates to locate places on a grid. Intended Outcome: Following directions ...
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Fraction War

Fraction War

War is usually played with a pack of cards (e.g. http://www.bicyclecards.com/how-to-play/war/). This version can be played with dominoes. Learning Objective: ...
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Make 10

Make 10

Learning Objective: Adding 'make ten' numbers. Intended Outcome: Automatic recall of tens number facts (‘friends of ten’). Materials: Pack of ...
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Race to...

Race to…

Learning Objective: Adding place values, ensuring values are lined up correctly and using partitioning to add to a target number ...
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Potato Olympics

Potato Olympics

Materials: Specific equipment for each Olympic event is listed below. Potatoes Pens to draw on potatoes Instructions: Each student is ...
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Crocodile and Shark (4–6)

Crocodile and Shark (4–6)

Learning Objective: Improve fluency in addition and subtraction of numbers up to 100. Intended Outcome: Improving mental strategies for adding ...
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