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You start the game with 50 points. Each question has 2 to 4 answers. Select the correct answer before your time runs out to score points. Right answers are +10, wrong answers are -2, out of time is -5.

This is a timed game. Your final score is equal to the total score minus time taken.
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Game: CHOOSE OR LOSE

Aim: Choose the right answer; beat the clock

Method:
You start the game with 50 points. Each question has 2 to 4 answers. Select the correct answer before your time runs out to score points. Right answers are +10, wrong answers are -2, out of time is -5.

This is a timed game. Your final score is equal to the total score minus time taken.

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CHOOSE OR LOSE game to practice
'Total number of items' for 2nd grade

With our Choose or lose math game you will be practicing the topic "Total number of items" from 2nd grade / Addition / Word problems. The math in this game consists of 11 questions that ask you to use addition to find out how many items there are in total.

Word problems: adding items and item costs

Learn how to add items and how to add the cost of multiple items with the sub-category "Word problems"

3 topics:
Total number of items
Total cost of 2 items
Total cost of 3 items

Sometimes in math the sums are not given to you as numbers in columns, but as words and sentences. This doesn't mean that the math you have to do is different, but it does mean you have to work out first what the sum you are being asked to do is, and then work on the sum itself. In this set of topics, the questions are to do with adding up either the total number of items or the total cost of a set number of items.

When we want to understand math problems in sentences, we need to read carefully through the sentence and create a sum that takes the number information out of the sentence and puts it in a sum. For instance, in the sentence "Jack has 6 apples and Jill has 12 apples." we can see that the things we are interested in are the apples, and the numbers we need to sum are 6 and 12. So, to get the total number of APPLES, we add up the 6 (that Jack has) and the 12 (the number of apples that Jill has). Written as a sum this will be

6 + 12 = 18

So we can say that the number of apples that Jack and Jill have is 18.

When the sentences we are looking at involve money, we have a similar situation, but our addition sum will involve adding amounts of money rather than numbers of items. Sometimes this is easy. Say we have 2 things that cost 12 cents each. To know the total cost, we simply add the 12 twice to get 24 cents. If the 2 items cost different amounts, we can still add up those 2 amounts to get a total cost. For 3 items, the idea is the same.

Select the correct answers to the elementary math problems before the clock counts you out

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Our CHOOSE OR LOSE game is a simple activity to help elementary math learners and will improve the speed at which you can solve problems in the given topic. It does not rely on the learner typing in the answer. Rather, the learner must choose the correct answer from a list of 2, 3 or 4 similar answers.

CHOOSE OR LOSE encourages faster problem-solving for common and vital elementary math topics. CHOOSE OR LOSE is a timed game with a leaderboard for each topic at each of the 4 levels on offer. You can play the game with or without audio and robots.

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How to play Choose or lose to practice
'Total number of items' for 2nd grade

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Our CHOOSE OR LOSE game asks the learner to click on the correct answer from a selection of possible answers before the clock runs down.

  1. Click on PLAY to start.
  2. You are presented with a topic question, then a list or grid of 2 to 4 possible answers (depending on the topic you have chosen).
  3. You must select the correct answer by clicking on it before the clock counts down.
  4. You have 10 seconds in total to answer each question.
  5. The clock starts ticking down 5 seconds after the answers have appeared.
  6. To hear the question again, click / tap on the question box.
  7. The browser will speak the potential answers on rolling-over them.
  8. A correct answer gains you 10 points.
  9. A wrong answer loses you 2 points.
  10. A time-out loses you 5 points.
  11. A score is kept of correct answers against number of answers.
  12. The game is timed, and your final score (points earned minus time taken) is given at the end of the game. Top 10 scores for a topic get you a place on the leaderboard.
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