Lesson Planning

Play a game of cricket, modifying the rules as appropriate and given what children already know about managing the risk of playing this game. Keep track of batting scores to work out batting averages.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To play a game of cricket.
• To work out batting averages and make a bar chart of them.

Children will:

• Take part in a game of cricket.
• Keep score of team and individual runs.
• Work out their own batting average and contribute to a class bar chart.