Have with Numbers- Mix and Match

Have with numbers mix and match

Instructions for teachers

There are three versions of this activity. The first one is given on one page to save paper and photocopying. The second is on cards to make it more flexible and to make matching up a more physical activity. However, the mix or match activity is usually best done as a whole book, with each page cut into flaps which are turned separately to make good and bad matches. This makes it similar to the many mix and match books in which the reader makes people, monsters, etc with odd matches of head, body and legs, or something like the classic book Do You Like Ketchup on Your Cornflakes?

There are also a few possible activities, but the best is usually to get one student to make a wrong, funny or crazy match and then for one or more other students to make it more correct/ sensible while keeping as many parts the same as they can. In this case, this means one student trying to make a question which is sure to get a “No” answer, then their partner trying to change it to one which the original person will answer with “Yes”. All the starting and ending options have at least one sensible match and at least one silly match, but a couple of numbers don’t match any of the combinations.

To make a book, you need to staple the pages together on side, perhaps after adding a cover, and then cut along the dotted lines. To make the pages easier to turn, you could cut a gap of a few millimetres where the dotted lines are. You could also add suitable pictures to some or all flaps, but doing it without pictures means that students will have to concentrate more on the meaning of the words.

After reading, students could draw suitable pictures on their own copy of the book. Another option is for each student to draw one picture of their favourite silly combination, instead of drawing pictures for every page. It’s also fun to get them to draw the silly question combinations as they make them, and this helps make sure that they understand the question they are making at that the next person does too.

They could also make their own versions of this mix and match activity, perhaps keeping the same starters but changing the other columns/ cards/ flaps.

 

Single page version

Make a question which your partner says “No” to from words in the columns below and see if they can change it to a question which you say “Yes” to, if possible by only changing one or two columns.

Do you have Do you have Does a butterfly have Does a car have Does a pack of cards have Does a rhino have Does a spider have Does an ant have Does an owl have Does the American flag have Does this room have Does your face have Does your right foot have

two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen twenty

claws? eyes? fingers? hearts? horns? legs? legs? mirrors? nails? stripes? toes? windows? wings?

 

Cards version

Make a question which you partner says “No” to from words on the cards below. Then see if they can change it to a question which you say “Yes” to, if possible by only changing one or two cards. You can also write on the blank cards to make similar silly and normal questions.  

Do you have			Does a butterfly have				Does a car have
Does a pack of cards have			Does a rhino have				Does a spider have
Does an ant have			Does an owl have				Does the US flag have
Does this room have			Does your face have				Does your right foot have
two	three			four		five			six
seven	eight			nine		ten			eleven
twelve	thirteen			fourteen		fifteen			sixteen
seventeen	eighteen			nineteen		twenty			twenty one
claws?		eyes?			fingers?			hearts?
horns?		legs?			mirrors?			nails?
stripes?		toes?			windows?			wings?

 

Book version

Make a question which you are sure that your partner will say “No” to by turning parts of the pages below. Then see if your partner can change it to a question which you say “Yes” to, if possible by only changing one or two parts.

 

 

Do you have

 

 

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two

 

 

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claws?

 

 

 

 

Do you have

 

 

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three

 

 

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eyes?

 

 

 

 

Does a butterfly have

 

 

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four

 

 

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fingers?

 

 

 

 

Does a car have

 

 

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five

 

 

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hearts?

 

 

 

 

Does a pack of cards have

 

 

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six

 

 

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horns?

 

 

 

 

Does a rhino have

 

 

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seven

 

 

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legs?

 

 

 

 

Does a spider have

 

 

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eight

 

 

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legs?

 

 

 

 

Does an ant have

 

 

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nine

 

 

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mirrors?

 

 

 

 

Does an owl have

 

 

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ten

 

 

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nails?

 

 

 

 

Does the American flag have

 

 

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eleven

 

 

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stripes?

 

 

 

 

Does this room have

 

 

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twelve

 

 

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toes?

 

 

 

 

Does your face have

 

 

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thirteen

 

 

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windows?

 

 

 

 

Does your right foot have

 

 

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twenty

 

 

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wings?