Fair Shares
Early sharing and dividing: share the fruit so every friend has the same, and count each plate.
How it plays
There's a bowl of fruit and two friends with empty plates. Your child taps a plate to give that friend one piece, until the bowl is empty and everyone has the same. A piece can go back to the bowl with a tap. When it's fair, Ruby Roo says how many each friend has. First two friends, then three, then four, and every count shares out evenly.
What it's for
Early sharing and dividing: share the fruit so every friend has the same, and count each plate. There is no score to lose and no way to fail: a wrong move is met with a gentle nudge, and a level ends when it's done.
Away from the screen: One for you, one for me
About two minutes, with things most homes have.
- Get out a handful of something small: grapes, blocks, pegs.
- Your child shares them between two teddies, one at a time.
- Count each pile. Are they the same?
- Add a third teddy and share again.
Three questions to ask while they play
- Does everyone have the same?
- How did you know when it was fair?
- What if one more friend came?
Play together
Things to say or ask
- One for Koala, one for Wombat.
- Wombat has three. How many does Koala have?
Taking turns on one device: Each of you looks after one friend's plate and gives them a piece in turn.
If they find it hard
Show the “one for you, one for you” way: one piece to each plate in turn. Count the plates together at the end.
What it practises
- Reading numbers. Knowing numerals and what they're called.
AC9MFN01 (Mathematics, Foundation) - Getting along with others. Taking turns, sharing, losing well, having a go, saying sorry, and noticing when a friend is sad.
AC9HPFP02 (Health and Physical Education, Foundation); AC9HPFP04 (Health and Physical Education, Foundation); EYLF 2 (Early Years Learning Framework V2.0)
The codes are from the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 (for children from birth to five) and the Australian Curriculum v9 (Foundation to Year 2). Each links to the official wording. Every skill, and the games for it.
What it costs, and what we collect
Nothing, and nothing. There is no account, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. Which games have been played is remembered on your own device and is never sent anywhere. The full version is here, and it's short.
Where it lives
Fair Shares is part of Food & Cooking. It works on a phone, a tablet or a classroom screen, and once it's been opened it keeps working with no signal at all.
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