“Ten and” facts

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Purpose:

The purpose of this activity is to help your child to recognise the teen numbers as “ten and ..”.

What you need:

What to do:

Cut out the cards. Deal eight cards to each player. Place the remaining cards face down in a pile – the Pick up pile.
Players look for pairs of cards that match and place them face up in the middle. For example any two of these cards can make a pair:    
 
Players then take turns to add cards to the pairs displayed faced up.
Players may place new pairs of cards on the table. If a player does not have a card to add to a pair, they take a card from the pick up pile.
The winner is the first to place all their cards.

What to expect your child to do:

To be able to recognise teen numbers written as numerals, 10 + facts, and as dot arrays.

Variation:

  • Use the cards to play Snap or Memory.
  • Use your home languages to play this game. 

He Kupu Māori:

takirua
pair
takitoru
triple
kāri takirua
pair of cards

He Whakawhitinga Kōrero:

  • Tohaina kia waru ngā kāri ki ia tangata. (Deal out 8 cards to each person.)
  • Whakaputua ngā toenga kāri, ko ngā mata ki raro. (Put the left over cards face down in a pile.)
  • Māu e tīmata. Kei a koe ētahi kāri takirua, takitoru rānei, he ōrite te tau e whakaaturia ana? (You start. Have you got any pairs or triples which all show the same number?)
  • Whakatakotoria ērā ki waenganui, ko ngā mata ki runga. (Put those down in the middle, face up.)
  • He ōrite te tau e whakaaturia ana i ēnei kāri. (The number shown on each of these cards is the same.)
  • Kei a koe tētahi kāri e whakaatu ana i te tau ōrite ki tētahi o ngā takirua e takoto mai ana? (Do you have a card showing the same number as one of the pairs laying here?)
  • Kāore i ahau ētahi takirua, takitoru rānei. (I don’t have any pairs or triples.)
  • Tangohia tētahi anō kāri i te putunga kāri. (Take another card from the pile.)
  • Ko te tangata tuatahi ki te whakatakoto i ana kāri katoa, ko ia te toa. (The first player to lay down all of their cards is the winner.)

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