How it works
Twenty-five answers are printed on a card. A question is called — 8 + 7, 52 − 6, 24 × 6 — and the player marks the square holding its answer before the countdown ends; a question nobody answers in time takes a square off the card for good. Five marked squares in a row, a column or a diagonal is a bingo, and three bingos wins. There are eight sets of questions — adding, taking away and times, with single and double digit numbers — so the same card suits a child learning bonds to ten and one drilling the tables. Because the answers are in front of the player and the questions are not, it rewards recall rather than working it out on paper, which is exactly the part of the number facts that has to become automatic.
Practises
- Addition facts
- Subtraction facts
- Times tables
Suited to
Classes 2–5
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