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Playing maths hockey

You need to know

• how to answer simple maths questions

You will need

Steps

1. Using your pencil and paper, come up with a variety of maths problems. You may also want to include some challenging questions.

Hint

You need the as many questions as there are bottle tops. Make sure all the questions have different answers.

2. Put some sticky tape on each of the lids and use the marker to write one answer on each piece of tape.

Hint

The tape lets you reuse the lids for different sets of questions.

3. Cut a hole out of your cardboard box to turn it into a goal.

Keep safe!

Ask an adult to help you with this.

4. Use cardboard removed from the goal to widen one end of each cardboard tube to turn them into hockey sticks.
5. Invite friends and family to play Maths Hockey.
6. Place the lids at least three metres from your goal.
7. Let all the players read the questions before starting the game.
8. Pick a referee. The referee will read out questions at random and keep the score.

9. Players take turns to play. The referee reads out a question and the player must try to score a goal with the plastic lid that has the right answer.

   You score a point if you score a goal with the correct lid and lose a point if you score a goal with the wrong lid.

10. The first player to score ten points is the winner!

Questions

1. How could you make the game more challenging?

Explore further (optional)

Create some other sets of questions you can use to play the game.