Key Stage 1 Numeracy Homework
Year 2 Multiplication
"All Aboard"

What will this game will achieve?
This activity will help your child count in twos and learn the two times table.  They will also learn to respond rapidly to written questions.

You will need:

                                                       
How do you play?

• Get your child to count the stick people. How many ways can they count them? ...in 1s, 2s, 3s etc. Is the total always the same?
• Count the carriages and the passengers they can carry. Fill up the carriages with stick people.
• If the number of counters under both cups is the same then you win those counters and remove the cups.
• Ask questions eg.
  
  • There are 6 people ... How many carriages?
  • There are 8 people ... How many carriages?
  • How many people in 4 carriages?
  • How many people in 10 carriages?
  • How did you work that out?
  
  
• Use the carriages and people to answer the times-table cards.