Page 31 - Numeracy Skills

SHOWING TIME

• Children work individually with 3 of their bricks.
• The children must create a “long / minute hand” with 2
bricks and the “hour hand” with one brick.
• Teacher calls out the time, e.g. 3 o’clock.
• The children must use their bricks to show the position of
the “hands”.

TALLEST

TOWER

• Children work in a large group (8 - 10) to build
the tallest, strongest tower that they can in 1
minute.
• The children have to vary the ways in which
bricks are added by clicking the bricks in
different directions or using a different number
of studs to attach bricks.
• Teacher says “Go!” and they work as a team to
build.
• When Teacher says “Hands off!” the groups
stop building.
• Compare the towers - who has the tallest;
smallest?

Q: How many bricks have you used?
Q: Which one is the strongest? You can test
by picking up the tower and tilting it to
see which group’s tower stays
intact the longest.

Variations:
• Build a tower using only 1 / 2 / 3 colours.
• Build a tower which is patterned and then
explain the pattern.
• Build a tower incorporating spaces.
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