Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Mystery Number Skype

Mrs. McKenzie read this post by Ms. Cassidy in Canada about her class doing a mystery number skype, and thought that the students in B4 would enjoy doing it too.
Now we've had our first mystery number skype with Miss Revell and her Year 2 class of iKids, near Napier, New Zealand.
Beforehand, we brainstormed some useful questions, so we could eliminate lots of numbers from our choices.
These questions can all be answered with 'yes' or 'no' answers. They are called skinny questions!

First, our class had to work out their mystery number.

After lots of questions to eliminate the numbers, there was only one number left. It was 64!
That meant that the iKids won that round!

Then it was their turn to guess the number we had 
chosen to start with, which was 67. 
It was funny that both classes had chosen a number in the 60s!
For the next rounds we tallied the number of questions asked. Both classes solved their puzzles in only 6 questions.


Now we are looking forward to more mystery number skypes with Mrs. Watson's class in Canada; 
and Ms. Lirenman's class, also in Canada!

We have a mystery number for you to work out.
Ask us questions in the comments section.
Remember, questions can only be answered with 'yes' or 'no'!

22 comments:

  1. Kia Ora B4

    Thanks for your Skype call! It was funny when we both chose in the '60's when we were doing the mystery number Skype. I was a little bit excited when I got the last number.

    Is your number 24?

    From Jack H

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  2. Hi Open the Door to B4

    I do think that it is a bit funny that both of our numbers were in the 60's. Is your number between 50 and 70?

    From Oscar

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    1. Dear Oscar
      The answer is NO.
      Thanks for playing.

      from B4

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  3. Kiaora thank you for skyping us I wander what your number will be this time. We hope that we can skyp agin.

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  4. Aloha Open the door to b4 does your number have a seven in it. Josh.Cody.

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    1. Dear Josh and Cody
      The answer is NO.

      Thanks for playing.

      from B4

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  5. Hi b4 everybody loved that game. It was funny that both classes had 6 guesses each everybody was so scared that we where going to lose but it turned out it was a tied game! We hope we skype you again.
    from Jimmy and Violet.

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  6. Kia ora b4
    That was a fun game of guess the number,
    I really enjoyed it.
    Thank you for playing guess the number.
    It was really fun to find out your number.
    you where good at guess the number.
    from Jasper and Lilie

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  7. Kia Ora you have a cool class name.
    It was funny that we got the same amount of guesses.
    Thank you for playing guess the number with us.
    From Stella

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  8. Kia ora B4
    Thank you for joining us in the mystery number skype, it was really fun!
    Is your number between 60 and 77?
    From Grace

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    1. Dear Grace
      The answer is NO.
      Thanks for playing.

      from B4

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  9. Kia Ora B4
    We had so much fun Skyping. We hope we can do it again.
    We are look ford to it. Is your number 60 or 70.
    From Lucinda and Tobie.

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    1. Dear Lucinda and Tobie
      The answer is NO.
      Thanks for playing.

      from B4

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  10. Hi B4
    Thank you for joining in the mystery Skype number game,
    Is your number between 60 and 80?
    From Corey

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    1. Dear Corey
      The answer is NO.
      Thanks for trying.

      from B4

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  11. Hi B4
    We really enjoyed the mystery Skype number game could we please have another game sometime?
    From Jenna

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  12. Kia ora B4
    You were amazing at guessing our number, Great job!
    I hope we can play it again in future.
    Is your number in the 10's?
    From Chloe

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  13. Kia Ora
    We had lots of fun Skyping with you today, it was so exciting!
    Is your number between 10 and 50 ?
    Form Lola

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  14. Dear Lola
    The answer is YES.

    We hope you keep trying.

    from B4

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  15. Thank you for joining in the mystery Skype number game.
    While there is no one way to do a Mystery Number Skype call, we’ve now done about a half dozen of them and this is how we have found it to work best.
    1 When we are getting ready to play mystery number Skype, everyone, including the teacher, writes the numbers up to 20 on a small whiteboard. (We got this idea from Karen Lirenman’s class during our first Mystery Number call.) Paper or a drawing app on an iPad could also work.
    2 Each class secretly chooses a number between 1 and 20. We usually do this before the call as well.
    3 Each class asks questions with yes or no answers to try to guess what the other class’s number is.
    4 For our purposes, we have one class guess until they get the correct answer and then the other class guesses. For my young students, this has so far worked the best.
    As the students determine which numbers have been eliminated, they cross them off or erase them from their boards. I do the same to help those who are still unsure of their numbers (or who were distracted and missed something). Besides being a great way to practice identifying the numbers, it keeps all of the students engaged during the call.


    Labels: QR codes Mystery Number Skype Teaching

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