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How to play an easy game with a hundred square

Brilliant fun ways to help your child to develop an understanding of our number system up to one hundred.

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Hundred square mystery numbers game

☺Download and print a hundred square.
☺Cover a few squares with some counters.
☺Take turns to guess a hidden number.
★ Pass it on ★ On your turn talk about the patterns you have used to help you work out what a hidden number is. For example say “The number below forty six is ten more than forty six, so it’s fifty six.”

Hundred square race game

☺Download and print a hundred square.
Download and make +1+10 spinner.
You will also need a counter each, placed on the number 1 square to start.

☺Take turns
☺Spin and move forward that number of squares
☺Race to 100
★ Pass it on ★ On your turn talk about how you know where to move your counter to when you score +10. For example say “thirty two plus ten that’s forty two, move one square down.”
☺STry a more challenging version using a nearly blank hundred square.
★ Pass it on ★ Talk about the numbers you land on.

Have fun inventing your very own simple game to play

How to make an easy hundred square jigsaw puzzle

Quick and easy to make and brilliant for learning more about how to recognise and use the patterns in our number system to help with lots of number work.
☺Print one of the hundred square jigsaw puzzles and cut around the outside edge and along the bold lines.
☺Share putting the square back together with your child.
★ Pass it on ★ Talk about the number and shape clues that you use to help you. Talk about the numbers that are missing.
☺Try another one of the hundred square jigsaw puzzles to download and print

Download puzzle 1, print and play.

Download puzzle 2, print and play.

Download puzzle 3, print and play.

☺Have a go at making your very own hundred square jigsaw puzzle.
Download template and make your own.
★ Pass it on ★ Talk about how you can make your puzzle harder/easier!

For more ideas try these packages of games and activities using hundred squares
35 Number tracks
74 Stars and splats
75 Number word lotto
76 Join the dots to 100

Making connections is the basis of all learning and for your child those connections will make maths make more sense. By discovering patterns in our number system and relationships between different sums, there will be a lot less for your child to remember.
With these resources you can play maths games at home, based on number squares and number lines. Those connections and patterns will then be powerfully revealed, while you have fun!