BOWLING
(Mathematics)

• Introduce the topic of toys to the children by telling them you are going to play with this bowling set and counting the pins as a class.
• Split the pupils into teams.
• Set up the pins and draw a line with chalk on the floor, from which the pupils will roll the ball to try and knock down the 10 pins.
• Give a mathematical sum to the first group, who has to solve it correctly to bowl first.
• Ask the first team to nominate a bowler “Who’s bowling first from your team?”
• Each team bowls two balls and should note down the number of fallen pins, completing the sums as they go. When two balls have been bowled and you have asked the team to write their sum on the board, check the sum is correct as a class by count the pins which remain standing and subtract that number from the original 10 pins.
• The next team in line bowls and repeats the above.
• Add up all the pins knocked down after 3 turns per team to see who the winners are.

Extension Activity:

Use the language the children have learnt and apply to a game where a member of each team stands at the back of the classroom and is asked to answer a sum. If they get the maths question correct they take a step forward, if not they stay where they are. The winner is the first child to pass the finish line or reach the front of the class.

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Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.