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A Dustbin game<\/a> is great for helping students to organise ideas into categories.<\/p>\n

Students or teachers can create up to four categories of factors. The game created by ClassTools.net then involves students dragging and dropping each factor into its correct category as quickly as possible in a “race against the clock”! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Dustbin game is great for helping students to organise ideas into categories. Students or teachers can create up to four categories of factors. 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