What game could you do that involves numeracy and for what age range?

Please give me rules on how to play the game.





Thanks.|||Some 5 year olds in my family enjoy playing with poker chips. Spread a few out on the table, and ask the child to give you say 4 blue chips and two green ones etc. I even try this in another language and they can still do it.





Or there's what I call pairs. With a pack of playing cards (just the numerical ones, not Kings Queens or Jacks) lay them out face down in rows. The child then has two turn two cards face up, if the cards match (two threes for example) then he/she keeps the trick. If they don't match, then they are replaced face down where they were. this becomes a memory test as well as number association. Depending on the age of the kid then you could use all the cards, or insist that he pairs both red threes and not a red/black combination.





For the over tens, games like Monopoly involve a lot of numeracy especially if the child is the banker.|||Darts involves a lot of subtraction, and can improve numeracy. All sorts of variations are possible, like bigger throwing games in the park with a ball and different numbers written on bits of card ('first to a total of 100', or etc). The details could be varied to suit just about any age group.





Orienteering uses 'practical numeracy'; even if distances and angles aren't being measured, the activity makes you estimate how far you are from different landmarks, and weigh up the benefits and problems that would arise from using taking different routes. Again, there are different ways of organising the activity so that it can be enjoyed by any age group, or by all members of a family team.





A less active numeracy game is Cribbage. Most card games involve a degree of number-work, but this is particularly important in cribbage, where the card values in a hand are first combined in a kind of 'trading auction', and then re-combined with an extra card. Simplified versions can be devised so that children and young people can practice some of the same mental skills; this might involve dealing fewer cards, or setting easier scoring combinations.