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Overshoot and keep the change

What you’ll practice: The strategy of

overshoot and return.

Who can play: 2 or 3 people

How to win: Hove the fewest points

at the end of the game.

How to play:

  1. Place all the question cards face down in a pile. Player 1 chooses the top card, and uses “Overshoot and return” to solve the question. The number the player “returns” to get the final answer is the number of points they keep for that round.Each player needs to shop their work, either with numbers or a number line, as below. Platers can make either number in their given number sentence. Their starting number.

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19 + 25

38 + 16

46 + 48

37 + 9

24 + 18

52 + 27

18 + 34

67 + 28

27 + 44

62 + 17

28 + 33

9 + 46

103 + 99

98 + 75

18 + 45

47 + 36

28 + 17

39 + 52

112 + 199

62 + 18

47 + 25

64 + 27

36 + 8

75 + 18

Overshoot and keep the change question cards

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Overshoot and keep the change recording sheet

Question

Overshoot and return work

Number “returned”

Running total