Home > Foundation Stage > Numeracy > Number > Addition > Addition Games
Number Pairs Game

This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to play a range of games to identify and match different pairs of numbers that make matching sums to five, ten and twenty on the game board.
The class can explain and model how to use concrete equipment to support their addition calculations when calculating each matching number sum to five, ten and twenty.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to play a range of games to identify and match different pairs of numbers that make matching sums to five, ten and twenty on the game board
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets and sets of cards to play games to identify and match pairs of numbers that make sums to five for support ability levels, to ten for core ability levels and to twenty for extension ability.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to play games to identify and match pairs of numbers that make sums to five, ten and twenty.
This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to identify and model some of the skills and techniques that can be used when adding pairs of numbers by playing different games. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
-
Length Words
Practise using special vocabulary words to compare the lengths and sizes of objects found and used in different locations
-
Speaking Skills
Explain and model how to use voices clearly and expressively when interacting with others in different situations and scenarios
-
School Friends
Investigate, describe and model some of the special ways of providing practical, spiritual and emotional support to other pupils in the school
-
School Pictograms
Explore how to count and record the numbers of different pieces of school equipment that can be found in trays stored around the classroom