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Harry Potter Maths

Age Range: 5 - 11
By: Nic

My class love the Harry Potter game I made up.

We sit in a circle and I call 2 children in to the middle. The children stand back to back and when I say they start walking away from each other. I call out a maths problem (add, subtract, multiply, divide) and the first child to get the answer must turn round and 'zap' the other child with their wand before they can answer.

The pupils love this game and are always asking to play it!

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Chad Zoghby

1st September 2011

Awesome, I will be trying this tomorrow! :D

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Beanie

6th September 2012

Just did it with my grade 4s - we are adding decimals at the moment - winner of a game!!

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Michael

15th May 2013

I have now used this with year 2 up to year 6. I purchased 2 Harry Potter wands and a pair of Harry Potter glasses. The winner gets to wear the Harry Potter glasses and chooses the next challenger, but it must go boy, girl, boy, girl etc.. The children love this game. It also is a good indicator for the teacher to discern what they don't know, especially times tables.

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Ritika

9th November 2013

Sound really interesting..will try on Monday.

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Anonymous

10th May 2016

Definitely will do this in my class. Thanks, Cap!

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Evan

11th October 2016

Sounds cool

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Catherine Murphy

1st May 2018

Thank you

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Miss Highland

11th February 2019

We tried the game as a class and all loved it! They love Harry Potter and keep asking me at the end of the day to play it.We all love it and thank you for telling us!

Thanks!!

-Year Five

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