The robots are coming and your town needs defending! In this high-stakes digital game, students work together to protect a town from giant robot attacks by solving division problems. Each correct answer helps them strengthen defences, grow the population, or launch counterattacks. It's a game of maths, teamwork, and strategy!

Students will solve a series of division questions focused specifically on dividing by 4. The game also highlights the inverse relationship between multiplication and division, helping students deepen their understanding of fact families and number patterns in context.

As players progress, they can choose how to use their successes—upgrade homes to grow the town, build stronger walls to protect it, or fire on the robots to push them back. The goal is to make it through all waves of the attack before the robots break through!

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Solve division problems involving dividing by 4
• ✅ Understand the inverse relationship between multiplication and division
• ✅ Apply fact families to reinforce number knowledge
• ✅ Build fluency and accuracy with basic division facts
• ✅ Engage in collaborative, interactive gameplay with mathematical purpose

How to Play:

1. Students are presented with division questions that focus on dividing by 4.
2. Each correct answer contributes to building or defending the town.
3. Players can choose to upgrade homes, fortify walls, or attack the robots.
4. Incorrect answers allow robots to advance closer to the town.
5. The game ends when all questions are answered—or when the robots break through!

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during numeracy units focused on basic division facts or fact families
• 💡 Pair with hands-on games using counters or arrays to model dividing by 4
• 💡 Replay the game to increase fluency and improve outcomes with each round
• 💡 Follow up with written division tasks or fact family matching activities

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Let students personalise their experience by choosing from six characters before the game begins
• 💛 Select the number of players or teams at the start of the game to suit individual, paired, or group play
• 💛 Send the QR code home for students to play as a homework or fluency-building task

Let’s Defend – Divide by 4 gives students a chance to put their division skills to the test - all while defending their town and working as a team!