ADDITION/ DIVISION HUNBERBOARDS @ Share 24 counters between six animals, using the spinner to determine how many counters can be placed at a time. Each group needs a 1-4 spinner, Each student needs the Crazy Zoo oclivty board (p 72) and 24 counters. Instructions: This activity is for 2-4 students, Toke turns fo spin the spinner fo determine how many counters to place on (on enimal. By the end of the game each animal must have exactly four Counters. For example, if @ 3 is spun, 3 counters can be placed on an animol. However, to complete the animal, o 1 must be spun. The first to complete the task is the winner. Tryit this way: This ocivity is for 2 students. As the ectivily proceeds, one student could record the addition facts for four. This ocivty can also be completed individually, Roving questions: Ask: Ifyou hove two counters on the bird, what wil you need to spin to meke it fo four? If you have four counters on the bird and two counters on the giraffe, how many counters hove you taken from your pile of 24? How many do you have left? NNote the shoring situation: 24 counters shared between six animals gives cach animol 4 counters. Also note the inverse operation/tact: four lots of six ives 24. Generate the counting by fours pattern: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24... Observations: —Wotch ond listen for. students who use their knowledge of addition facts for four rather than counting the counters to check. Variations: © Play with a 6-sided die. Miss a turn if ive or six is rolled @ Investigate other numbers that would work exactly. © Moke « new activity board with a different number of animals ond explore how many counters could be used. Maths outcomes: @ using addition foe's for four, including adding zero @ counting patterns and making connections to related division and muliplication facts @ vsing addition ond subtraction facts in the range 0-24NUNBERBOARDS Crazy Zoo