Building Towers
Age group
- Early Years (Age 3 to 6)
Curriculum Goal
Kindergarten: Demonstrating Literacy and Mathematics Behaviour
Demonstrate an understanding of numbers, using concrete materials to explore and investigate counting, quantity, and number relationships (#15).
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Context
Children can play in pairs or one-on-one with an educator.
Materials
- Game board (Appendix A)
- Number cards, dot cards, or word cards (Appendix B) or dice
- 80 unifix cubes total – 40 cubes of the same colour for each player
Lesson
- Players take turns drawing a number/dot/word card (Appendix B) from a shuffled pile (or rolling the dice), building a tower using that many unifix cubes, and placing it on the corresponding number on the game board (Appendix A).
- The game ends when each player has had 5 turns or all 10 cards have been drawn from the deck.
- Then each player stacks all of their towers to make one big tower.
- Children can compare to see whose tower is taller and by how much.
Look Fors
Can the child identify…
- How many unifix cubes tall is the tower?
- How many more unifix cubes does your tower need to be the same height as the other player’s tower?
- How many unifix cubes does your tower need to get rid of to be the same height as the other player’s tower?