Football Mental Maths Game

Football Mental Maths Game Penalty Shoot Out Maths Game
Football inspired maths fun. This is a Penalty Shootout game for the whole class.
There are 5 game sheets included with a total of 105 questions.
These are quick fire mental maths questions designed to get students thinking on their feet!

✎ Contents:
This resource includes:
• 5 game sheets – each with 21 mental maths questions.
• Teachers notes.
• All answers.

The questions are mental math questions, for example:
What is 1,000 minus 2?
What is 7 squared?
What is 2.3 add 1.4?

✦ Objectives:
This resource has been designed to practice:
• Mental Maths
• Times Tables
• Addition – including some negative numbers.
• Subtraction
• Multiplication – including some negative numbers.
• Division – including some negative numbers.
• Multiplying by 10
• Multiplying by 100
• Dividing by 10
• Square Numbers
• Adding simple fractions
• Fractions of amounts
• Adding simple decimals
• Converting fractions, decimals and percentages
• 2D shape properties
• Metric Measurements

✦ Notes:
All answers are included.
These questions should take at least an hour.

✷ Suggestions:
You could also use these worksheets as a partner activity, with 2 students competing to score the most goals.

✎ Teacher’s Instructions - Match Rules
• Divide the players into 2 teams – e.g., blue and red (or choose team names).
• Each team nominates one person to take the 1st penalty.
The nominated students from each team both stand up.
The teacher asks the blue team question 1 to the blue team player and awards a penalty if the student answers correctly.
The red team penalty taker is then asked the matching red question 1 and is awarded a penalty if the answer is correct.
• Another person from each team is then chosen to take the 2nd penalty.
• Play continues for 10 rounds (10 questions) and then the number of goals is added up for each team.
• If there is a draw, play goes to extra time.
Each team chooses their best player to take the final penalty.
Only one question is asked to both team players and the 1st player to answer correctly wins the whole match for their team.
• At the end of the match, players in the winning team pick a “man of the match” - the student who they think played the best.
• This game can also be played by groups of students by allowing one student to be the “teacher”.
• It might be fun if the teacher uses their whistle and acts as the referee.
• Teachers may also want to allow a victory dance/celebration on scoring a penalty!

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