About a Million - Loop Game: "I have...Who has...?"

This activity allows all the children in the class play as there are 45 game card questions and answers in this activity.

This Loop Game supports the children in further developing their knowledge of numbers up to and including one million. The game consists of a range of questions which encourage the children to think about numbers in hundreds of thousands, vocabulary of numbers in the hundreds of thousands, and fractions of one million.

Setting up is easy - simply purchase, download, print, cut and play. (We have found that in order to get more out of the resource, it is best to laminate the game cards, this keeps them cleaner and reduces bends and creases for longer).

Playing is easy

Each card has a question and an answer on it. The children are given one or more cards each. The first player to go (selected randomly) reads the question on their card. All the other children look at their cards to see if they have the answer. If they have, they read out (or show) the answer and then read out their own question on that card. The game continues until all the cards have been played. Beware, a number of questions have the same answer - and therefore, the fastest children will be able to read their card more often and get more goes. This will create a loop within the game.

It becomes fast and furious, and our children love these games!

Extension to the Loop Game

Once the children have got the hang of the Loop Game, a range of extensions can be used:

• Swap the cards after each game so that children do not remember who has which card and then remind their friends who is next!
• Time the children and record how long each game takes to complete - can they beat their time on every go?
• Which question is the most tricky to answer? Start with this card - the children will think of it as cheating, but really they are learning the answer to that question
• Put the children in teams with a set of cards to watch out for - how does this change the timing challenge?
• What is the most number of loops they can find within the game?

We have found that the children in our classes also invent their own games, and want to add their own cards to extend the game. It is not unusual for our games to have more than 60 or 70 cards in each game, with the children having multiple cards each.

Children love the challenge, the speed, the fun and the different way of doing math revision!

This resource can also be used independently as a dominoes style game within an activity centre, or children can play against one another, either trying to get rid of their cards, or linking them together. Our children came up with a variety of different games for all of the Loop Games they have access to.

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