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Ten Add Bowling Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
This teaching resource is a great way to encourage learning number facts through a physical game.
Ten Add Bowling is a fun game for students to use their physical competitive nature to connect with numbers. This could easily become a regular brain break activity, or a way to introduce a lesson on place value, number knowledge and basic facts.
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National Curriculum Curriculum alignment
- Mathematics
The principal focus of mathematics teaching in key stage 1 is to ensure that pupils develop confidence and mental fluency with whole numbers, counting and place value. This should involve working with numerals, words and the four operations, includin...
- Addition and subtraction
- Multiplication and division
- Mathematics
The principal focus of mathematics teaching in upper key stage 2 is to ensure that pupils extend their understanding of the number system and place value to include larger integers. This should develop the connections that pupils make between multipl...
- Addition and subtraction
- Multiplication and division

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