Objective: This number activity challenges students to listen carefully and follow directions. It calls for students to count backward, count forward, and skip lines.
Props: A paper and pen for everyone.
Step by step instructions
- Split the students into small groups with three or four members each
- Ask students to take out a piece of lined paper and to work as a group.
- Then give them a series of directions. (You can select any sequence of steps you wish, keeping your students’ abilities in mind).
- Here’s an example to do with your students:
Write the number 86. (86)
Count backward five numbers, and write the new number. (81)
Skip a line, count forward three numbers, skip another line, and write the new number. (84)
Count backward eight, forward two, skip two lines, write the new number. (78)
Count forward nine, skip a line, and write the new number. (87)
Count backward eight, skip a line, count backward six, skip a line, and write the new number. (73)
Count forward three, skip a line, count forward ten, skip a line, and write the new number. (86)
Underline the new number. What is it? (
86)
Optional
- Continue the activity with different numbers and functions!
