Activity: The Paper Clips

Objectives:

Allows students to analyse and make quick decision to given situation.

Materials needed:

A box of colourful paper clips, points recording slip

Introduction:

This activity allows students to analyse the number of coloured paper clips and decide if he / she thinks that it is logical to have such quantity in hand.

Instructions:

All students sit in a circle, teachers go round and let each student grabs a proper handful of coloured paper clips. Students take a few minutes to count the number of colours they have in hand.

All students take turn to say a statement (e.g. “I have (number) of (colour) paper clips”) and let the remaining students to decide if he said belongs to a fact or not. If any student(s) does / do believe, he / she can request the student to show. If he / she shows the correct quantity and colour, the student is awarded with 1 point. Otherwise, the student(s) that sounded off is / are awarded instead.

The activity goes on and see who scores the most and teachers can award accordingly.

Have fun!

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