At Eleanor Palmer School in north London, headteacher Kate Frood and her enthusiastic staff use maths games to engage and invigorate their primary pupils, and share three of their best ideas - good solid maths learning cleverly interwoven with some traditional fun and games. A Year 3 class plays 'Four Rolls to a Hundred' where in two teams they have to roll a die, then choose whether or not to multiply the roll by ten to get them as close to 100 as they can. 'Code Breaking' challenges Year 6 to try to establish the value of the word TABLE having been given the numeric value of just some of the letters. Can they do it? Year 1 practise their 'counting on' skills in a simple but fun dice game they call 'Bird Race'. Each roll moves them up the board towards the finish.

Video Series: Great Lesson Ideas
Release Date 2009