CIRCUS “ANIMAL” ADDITION

CIRCUS “ANIMAL” ADDITION 

The following game for drill on the addition combinations to ten is a source of never-ending delight. One child is the trainer and wears a paper hat and holds a whip. The other children are trained animals. They wear paper collars, and each one has a number between one and ten on cardboard hanging by a string around his neck. Two children wear plus and minus signs instead of numbers. The trainer cracks his whip and calls two numbers. These numbers take their places on either side of plus. Equals take his place. The trainer then calls the number again and the child who has the answer takes his place after equals. The trainer cracks his whip, the numbers skip away, and the trainer calls other numbers, trying to get as many different combinations as possible. 

—June 1937, Elizabeth Oberholtzer, elementary teacher