Purpose:
The purpose of this activity is to help your child to develop instant knowledge of basic addition and subtraction facts from 6 to 10.
Link to Number Framework:
Number Facts, Stages 0-3
What you need:
- Game cards (PDF,21KB). You can print these or make your own.
What to do:
Use the facts to 10 cards to play memory. The aim of the game is to find as many matching pairs as possible by remembering where the cards are.
- Spread out all the cards face down.
- Turn over 2 cards. If the 2 number facts have the same answer they match and players get to keep the pair. For example "9 – 1" and "6 + 2" are a matching pair. If the number facts don’t match, players replace the cards face down.
- Take turns to try and find a matching pair.
- The winner is the player with the most pairs at the end of the game.
You can also use the game cards as flash cards.
- Put the cards in a pile face down.
- Ask your child to turn over the top card and call out the answer to the number fact as fast as possible.
What to expect your child to do:
Children might use their fingers to help at first, but with practice they should be able to give the answers to the addition and subtraction facts instantly.
Note:
This activity extends the knowledge developed in Facts to 5 – Memory and Flash Cards, Number Facts, Stages 0-3.
Related Māori vocab:
| fraction | hautau |
| decimal fraction | hautau ā-ira |
| percent | ōrau |
| decimal number | tau ā-ira |