Hoo Ha: Tested by Swavesey Primary School, Middlewatch, Cambridgeshire.

Overall marks out of Ten: 8.5

These games come in three boxed sets. Each set contains three wallets and each wallet has 24 cards. The game is intended for two to four players, but you can also use the cards for whole class learning.

Class packs are also available and these contain four individual box sets with enough games for 36 children and a teacher’s guide. Available for KS1,2 and 3, priced £xx.

How it works: A bit like ‘Kim’s game’ – with all the cards placed face down on the table a player picks two. If they’re identical he gets to keep them, if not he still has to read the sum on the cards correctly and place them back as they were.

‘I tried Hoo Ha! with Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 children in two 20-minute sessions. The children really enjoyed themselves with it and asked me if we could play it again as soon as possible – praise indeed!  From a teaching point of view Hoo Ha! appeals to the visual, verbal, aural and kinaesthetic learner. The format for the game is one that the children are familiar with and engage with immediately. I found it an idea resource to use with small groups learning times tables and multiplication facts. Small groups of children could also use the cards an independent group activity.’

Margaret Edwards, supply teacher