Calculation Games for Students Aged 5-7
These games, published by BEAM for teachers of primary mathematics, can be used to practise and consolidate students' early mathematical understanding. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Three in a line - addition up to 12 • Add or subtract - addition and subtraction to 12 • Add and…
Place Value Games for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of place value, number recognition and ordering. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Make a two digit number - comparing two digit numbers • Numbers in a row - using dice to generate numbers to be placed in…
Fraction Games for Students Aged 5-7
This game for two players, published by BEAM, requires students to halve even numbers by playing a game. Students spin a spinner, half the number and then collect the correct number of counters. The winner is the student with the most counters after five rounds. The game offers an opportunity to discuss the properties of odd and…
Counting Games for Students Aged 3-5
A selection of games published by BEAM for teachers of early years mathematics. The games enable students to develop their skills of number recognition, counting, comparison and writing of numbers. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Reading numbers game - matching numbers in words to numerals •…
Data Handling Games For Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these two games encourage students to develop their skills of sorting shapes using one criterion and numbers using one or two criteria. • Sorting - a game for two players requiring one student to choose which shapes go inside the circle and to make up a label for the circle. The second student has to guess…
Money and Measure Games for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these games require students to play in twos, using coins and dice to develop their knowledge of money and time. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • 15 pence - using 1p, 2p and 5p coins • Balloons - counting coins • Buying toys - reading and saying amounts of money •…
Shape Games for Students Aged 3-5
A selection of mathematics games for use with early years students, published by BEAM. They include problems and puzzles, cross-curricular activities and resources to develop spatial awareness and pattern recognition. The activities, with their mathematical content, are: • Butterflies - using counters to make symmentrical…
Money and Measure Games for Students Aged 3-5
Published by BEAM, this collection of games give students opportunities to practise and consolidate their mathematical understanding of money, through coin recognition, counting and matching amounts of money. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Shopping - matching pence coins to numberals • Coins…
Shape Games for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to develop their knowledge and understanding of shape and space. The three games, all taken from the Maths of the Month series, are: • Play people - matching numbers to objects • Shapes - counting sides of shapes and recognising numerals •…
Counting Games for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, this game for students in Key Stage One helps develop their recognition of number and their counting skills. • Dots and dots - a simple game for two players requiring students to take turns to recognise patterns of dots on a dice as quickly as possible. The player who gets the most correct answers is the…
Number Games for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of number recognition, multiples and ordering. • Missing tens - identifying multiples of ten • Missing twos - identifying multiples of two • Odd or even - identifying odds and evens on different dice • Odds…
Calculation Games for Students Aged 3-5
These resources, published by BEAM, are aimed at the early years and provide games in which students can practise saying numbers and develop their counting skills. • Nest eggs - saying and counting numbers up to 6 • 1 more or less spots - saying numbers one more than or one less than • Making dominoes -…
Number Games for Students Aged 3-5
Published by BEAM, this game gives students opportunities to read, count and sequence numbers. Students roll a die, move the appropriate number of places and if they land on a missing number they need to identify what it should be. • Missing numbers - a dice game for two players who are required to read the number they land…