Jump Rope Bingo

( by John Williams )

If this game doesn't make your principal happy nothing will

Grade Level :

1st and up

Equipment :

  • Enough jump ropes for everyone
  • One of the sheets to your left for everyone
  • Pencils for everyone (plus extras)
  • Flash Cards (multiplication, division, addition and subtraction)

    • Objectives :

    • Integration of Math skills
    • Jump rope skills

    Game :

    The first thing you need to do is go to each grade level in your school and find out what they are doing in math. Then you use those same skills in the game.

    Children space themselves out on the floor with the equipment. Depending on the length of your class it may take two class periods to finish so I have the children write their names and class on each paper. You hold up a flash card (grade appropriate). The children write down the problem then they solve it. When they have the answer they jump rope that number of times. The children may jump any way the are able or that they like. After they finish they sit down and wait for the next problem.

    I grade all of them and give them back to the students the class after we finish. Then we go over all of the answers as a group.

    Options :

  • Group younger children and Special Ed. children in groups of four or five and let them solve and jump together.
  • Talk with the teachers and use the scores as an extra grade if it helps their avg. My third and fourth grade teachers really like and use this.
  • Use some word problems with the older children.

    • Good luck and enjoy !