Cricket is a summer game in Australia and New Zealand, and in the summer holidays it is played in backyards, parks and on the beach. A bowler bowls 6 balls in a row, called an over. A batter scores runs by running between the wickets, 4 runs when the ball bounces and then crosses the boundary, and 6 when it crosses the boundary without bouncing. The team batting second wins by scoring one more run than the first team. These pages keep to those rules and leave out wides and no-balls.
Six pages of cricket maths. Page 1 shows that 6 balls make an over: students fill in a table of overs and balls, then work out balls from overs and balls (2 overs and 3 balls is 15 balls) and overs from balls. Page 2 shows six overs ball by ball, where 0 is a dot ball and W is a wicket: students add the runs in each over and write the score after it, then answer three questions. On page 3 students find the runs from fours and from sixes with × 4 and × 6, then the runs in all. Page 4 is a scoreboard in tally marks: write each batter's runs, the total and the runs the other team needs to win. Page 5 is a tally chart of how the runs were scored and a bar graph with a scale of 2 to finish, with questions that multiply the fours and sixes. Page 6 has six cricket word problems. The first problem on each page is worked as an example.
Play a few overs of cricket in the playground with a soft ball, and keep score on the board ball by ball, so page 2 makes sense. Before page 1, count out 6 balls an over with counters and skip count by 6s together. For page 4, remind students that a group of tally marks with a line across is 5, and that a team needs one more run than the other team's total to win.
If you play backyard or beach cricket over the holidays, keep score together on paper, ball by ball, and add up each over. Watch a little of a match on TV and ask how many balls are left in the over, or how many runs the team needs to win.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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Summer maths with backyard and beach cricket: overs of 6 balls, fours and sixes, scoreboards and the runs needed to win. Students multiply by 4 and 6, add up overs ball by ball, read tally marks, finish a bar graph and solve cricket word problems.
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