Roll and Build Bingo
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
One-on-one, pair-based game.
Materials
- Roll and Build Bingo game board (Appendix A)
- Two dice
- Unifix cubes in two different colours. Players will be given cubes of the same (note: 95 is the absolute maximum number of cubes needed per player)
Lesson
- Player 1 tosses two dice and finds the sum of the two numbers (e.g., 3 + 4 = 7). They will then build a tower on the corresponding square using that many unifix cubes (e.g., a seven-cube tall tower on the number seven square).
- Player 2 takes a turn, repeating the same procedure.
- The game continues until someone gets a bingo, either by occupying four squares in a row or five squares in a column.
Look Fors
- Are students able to accurately comprehend and represent number in the three different forms?
Extension
For another numeracy exercise using this game board, see Building Towers.