Setup

How to Play

1. Choose how many students and print the sheets using the Go button.
2. Cut out the individual cards, shuffle them, and hand one to each student.
3. Keep the Facilitator Notes card and call out the first number.
4. The student with that number tells the class what operation to perform (e.g., "Multiply by 3").
5. Students silently compute the result.
6. The result will be a new number, and that new number will belong to another student.
7. Repeat the process until you get to the end!

Ideas to Try:

• Before you start, write the final answer on the board and hide it. Reveal it at the end!
• Ask students to write answers on mini whiteboards or paper as they go and check it after the game, or collect and assess their work.
• Keep the last card. That way, students will know that when you call out the final operation, they are now allowed to say the answer to the class.
• Time their process and record the results. Have a competition between different periods or classrooms and see who does the best at the end of the day.
• Allow students to check their answer with another student if they get stuck, or give certain students access to a calculator or multiplication table.
• Print up enough tickets so everyone gets two or three tickets for an extended game.
• Use this as a way to randomly seat people or sort groups. As their number comes up, they take the next seat/join the next group.
• Play rapid fire style. Before you start, let students compute the operation on their ticket. When you begin, start a stopwatch and let them race through the numbers. Skip saying the operations and instead just say the results, calling them out as fast as they can.
• Challenge: Play it backwards! Students have to reverse the operations.