Random Number Generators
One of my current interests is the contribution that MFL makes to maths and numeracy, and I've put my findings so far here. I spent this afternoon completing sequences (also available in Spanish), rounding numbers up and down to the nearest ten and working out "greater than, less than and equal to" in French with Years 4, 5 and 6. Knowing what they are expected to do in maths has given me lots of ideas for teaching numbers, and, of course, it's reinforcing the maths that they do.
In EYFS they work on single digit recognition, in particular recognising and saying single digits and then numbers to 20 in random order. I have created a resource which will help you to do that in MFL - a random number generator. It works in Excel and is therefore pretty low-tech, but it's simple to use. All you need to do is press F9 to change the numbers.
The single number is for the most simple practice. Change the number and the students call it out in the target language. You could also make this a team game, where you have a member of each team at the front and the winner is the one who calls out the correct number first. There is also a 2-number version which could be used in a similar way. If you want to change the range of numbers used in this generator, all you have to do is to change the numbers in the white boxes at the top.
There is also a version with 3, 4 and 5 numbers. You could use this to practise hundreds and thousands. Alternatively you could generate a group of, say, 4 numbers, and the students have to say them in the language in the right order. Hence the generator gives you "5 2 8 4 7" and the students have to work out "deux quatre cinq sept huit". They could also add them up and give you the answer in the target language.
