{"id":467,"date":"2025-11-27T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/?p=467"},"modified":"2025-11-27T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:48:12","slug":"addition-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/2025\/11\/27\/addition-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Addition strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-468\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary67withmrsagnew\/uploads\/sites\/20828\/2025\/11\/27073817\/20251126_111242-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-469\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary67withmrsagnew\/uploads\/sites\/20828\/2025\/11\/27073827\/20251126_111215-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-470\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary67withmrsagnew\/uploads\/sites\/20828\/2025\/11\/27073834\/20251126_111129-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-471\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary67withmrsagnew\/uploads\/sites\/20828\/2025\/11\/27073840\/20251126_101956-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-472\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary67withmrsagnew\/uploads\/sites\/20828\/2025\/11\/27073847\/20251126_101948-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-473\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/primary67withmrsagnew\/uploads\/sites\/20828\/2025\/11\/27073854\/20251126_101345-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This game is called &#8220;Shut the box&#8221;. The aim of the game is to find the sum of the 2 dice and decide how to represent this with the numbers. The children must strategise as all numbers need to be used to win the game.\u00a0 In the first round many players were left with number 1 and realised they were unable to complete the game as a score of 1 is not possible with 2 dice. This game is really good for encouraging quick recall of number facts and applying this in the best way to win the game.\u00a0 They had so much fun that they asked for this game at wet indoor play!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This game is called &#8220;Shut the box&#8221;. The aim of the game is to find the sum of the 2 dice and decide how to represent this with the numbers. The children must strategise as all numbers need to be used to win the game.\u00a0 In the first round many players were left with number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/2025\/11\/27\/addition-strategies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Addition strategies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/primary67withmrsagnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}