Level: beginner / pre-intermediate
Aim: practicing listening skills, practicing logical thinking
Time: 15 – 20 minutes
Language skills: reading, listening, speaking (in variation: writing)
Types of learners: auditory, visual, logical
Materials for the students: none (in variation: one A5 blank sheet of paper)
Materials for the teacher: cards with questions (as many cards as there are groups of three, plus 2 or 3 'hard cards', and 2 or 3 'easy cards')
Classroom management: groups of three

Steps of the game:
1. A teacher reads a task from one card. The class tries to guess the answer.
2. After they have guessed, the teacher gives one card to each group of three students. They read it and try to guess the answer. On a piece of paper, they write down the number of the card, and the answer.
3. When they have finished, they exchange cards with some other group.
4. The game is finished when all the groups have solved all the maths problems.

Variation: Fast-finishers can write some new maths problems for the rest of the class / another group.

Some advice:
Weak students work slowly. Prepare some easy maths problems (addition, multiplying) for them.
Have several 'hard cards' for the fast-finishers (you can find them in children's magazines).

Some possible problems:
a) I have got three apples. Ana has got five bananas. How many apples have I got?
b) Ana has got seven peaches. I eat 3 peaches. How many peaches have I got?
c) Ana lives in house no 27. Susan is in no 35. How many houses are in between?
d) Ana has 2 brothers. How many children have their parents got?
e) There are 5 horses, 3 cows, and 4 parrots on a farm. How many farm animals are there?

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