There’s nothing better than games to help kids learn and remember their number facts. Here’s a simple game that appears in Milestone Maths level B4.

Print out an addition grid (below). Get together with a friend and two different coloured markers or pencils.

The object of the game is to get four answers written in a row before your opponent. Be a good sport and let your opponent go first. They may choose any square to write the answer to the corresponding addition fact in. Then you have a go and do the same.

Keep alternating turns until one of you has four answers in a row. If either player writes the wrong answer, the answer gets crossed out and the square becomes “out of bounds.”