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Tribal treadmill

Count in multiples. The parrot must earn feathers by picking up numbers in sequence.

Use the settings to set the number range and the multiplier. Touch the treadmill to change lanes or touch a number to pick it up directly.

Occasionally special power ups items will drop from the sky.

If you earn all of the feathers you get a special bonus level to collect even more feathers. Win different capes by advancing through the number ranges. Be careful, the game gets quicker!



Teaching tips:

Age 4, Age 5Age 5-6, Age 6-7Age 7-9Age 9-11

Use levels 1 and 2 where numbers count forwards in ones and do not exceed 10. Children could use ‘finger numbers’ alongside these levels if using as a whole class activity.

Pair with ‘Number gym’ and ‘Action time’ to count actions.
Use level 3 as a maths warm-up for number recognition and counting forwards and backwards to 20. Children could use individual number lines to 20 to aid counting forwards and backwards.

Pair level 3 with ‘Counting in ones’ flashcard revision or ‘name the number (1-10) and (1-20).

Use levels 4 and 5 to get children counting in multiples suitable to their age group. To count forwards and backwards to and across 100 beginning with any number, use the ‘override settings’ and select ‘count in 1s.’

Pair level 4 with ‘Monkey stacks’ and ‘Island stacks - How many?’ for more activities counting in multiples.
Use level 6 to get children counting in multiples of 4, 8, 10, 50 and 100 with numbers up to 1000.

Use level 6 with ‘Multiples quiz - [age78]’ to test children’s multiples recall.

Level 7 looks at numbers beyond 1000 and counts in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000. Children could work in pairs and take it in turns to select the next number on the treadmill.

Use level 7 with ‘Multiples quiz - [age89]’ to text children’s multiples recall.
Level 8 gets children counting forwards in steps of powers of 10 from a given number up to 99999.

Use level 9 as a consolidation of various multiples.

Use these alongside ‘Multiplication quiz - Age 9-11’ to solve problems involving multiplication.
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