Fun Adding Game and much more
Posted by teacher on May 3, 2008Materials : Pieces of papers with letters on them that look like license plates.
Plain paper : Create a chart to tell students what number each letter represents (makeup numbers for each letter depending on your students’ level of proficiency).
Activity: Make a chart that tells a certain number for each letter of the alphabet. For example..
A=6
B=3
C=2
D=7
and so on. After that is done put out the pretend license plates and have them add up the total on the license plates. For example if a license plate was “bad”, that would be = 3 + 6 + 7 = 16
The kids have a lot of fun doing this and they learn a lot from it. They could work in pairs or by themselves.
Extensions: Many other games / activities could be developed from this. Examples are whose name is the most “valuable”? Who can create the most valuable word?