4 Times Tables - Remainders

The "4 Times Tables - Remainders" game is an engaging and educational activity designed to help players practice their division skills and understanding of remainders. Each participant requires a counter and a dice numbered from 1 to 6. The game is played on a specially designed "Remainders Board – 4s" which features a series of numbers that players will navigate by rolling the dice and moving their counter accordingly. Upon landing on a number, the player must divide it by four and attempt to partition the number into 'ten lots and the rest,' which helps in simplifying the division process.

The aim of the game is to score points by accumulating remainders. For instance, if a player lands on the number 54, they would calculate 54 divided by 4. By breaking it down, they would first take ten lots of 4 (which is 40), leaving 14. Then, they would see how many times 4 can be taken from 14, which is 3 times (3 x 4 = 12), resulting in a remainder of 2. The player then scores 2 points for that turn. The winner is determined by who has the highest score when the first player crosses the finish line. This game not only reinforces multiplication and division facts related to the number 4 but also provides a fun way to understand and work with remainders.