Magenta Mastery MASSIVE Volume Cuboids Fun Trading Game Activity Bundle with Worksheets & ANSWERS

Simple volume of cubes, cuboids and square prisms activity.

Young people love trading games…Share out to everyone the cards…they then roam the room trading one for one until they make up matching sets. Once they get a matching set they check with the adult who gives them a token if right.

This set has 16 matching sets of 8 cards - a massive piece of work!
The six cards have a length, width, height, volume, picture and name

It was originally designed to have lots of similar lengths so that there are many matching sets of cards without learners having to find a unique matching set.

You need to plan carefully how you are going to use it, what the ability is of your users and how collaborative they can be. Then print out accordingly. Below are a few suggestions.

Print out the cards on 3x7 A4 labels. Stick them onto plain playing cards (from your educational supplier). Then spend 5 minutes making stacks of the six cards (obviously not matches). You then distribute a stack to each pair. Learners then need to collect matching sets. Once they have a matching stack you issue two tokens and given them another stack so that they can continue playing until you call time.

You can give some element of control to this by first insisting that they first only trade with their table partners. This helps to identify who is going to struggle (and/or go off task). You can then manage them trading with another particular table and eventually it becomes a free for all and they all get up.

The tokens really do help to give the element of competition.

Watch out for students who give all their cards away and then opt out. Or small groups of students who go to one corner and share with each other and then don’t move around the room (although the tokens usually motivate most).

I’ve included a matching set of worksheets - 24 versions which have varying levels of difficulty & then a set of matching settler/starter WS’s