Math Bingo Game

by Donna
(Brisbane)

You can set up a math bingo game at any time without any pre made materials.

Just ask your children to fold a piece of A4 blank paper in half three times. This makes 8 sections when the paper is unfolded. (Just fold more times for more sections if you prefer particularly for older children.)

Choose the answers you want for your math bingo game. Let's use the example of focusing on addition sums up to 20. Ask the children to write any 8 numbers in their sections between 0-20 without doubling up on their numbers.

OK, now each child should have a unique math bingo game board with 8 different numbers between 0-20.

Call out, write on the board, or use addition flashcards to ask the maths questions. As a general rule, you will need 2 x questions to the amount of answer sections on the bingo boards, so in this case I need to have at least 16 questions ready.

Children put a cross on their math bingo game boards if the answer to the math question matches a number on their board.

First child to have all crosses wins.

Using this bingo board template, you can actually play all sorts of maths and reading games - just change the answers and questions format to suit the learning focus.

Children love making up their own boards and it ideal for group work also.