Sum-Thing maths games for 5yo schoolchildren in England.

So the school is giving Freda participatory homework, in the form of a maths board game each week to be played with a parent. Simple stuff like reading numbers, counting spaces moved, reading analogue clocks, reading instructions and so forth. I'm all for the idea.

The reality somewhat fails to measure up. A couple of the games have gratuitously frustrating bits in the middle (e.g. "go back to the red square" where you're likely to get it five or ten times in a row) that would have been spotted had anyone playtested these things even once. This week's literally does not make sense and requires a die that is simultaneously numbered and rolls red or black (the die included is only red or black); nobody has even bothered to make the instructions make sense. arkady will be complaining tomorrow. We try to patch up the instructions, but frustrating a five year old who wants to play the game is really inadequate.

Has anyone encountered these things? The line is called Sum-Thing and appear to be produced by Carwarden House Community School. (The "acknowldgments" on the back of the boards has had similar attention paid to typos.)

Update: The teachers were horrified and actually started playtesting the games themselves. Excellent result! This will of course only encourage us to continue being the acerbic parents of the bright kid. Frankly, Freda's classmates are enough like her that we think her teachers deserve medals, and have told them so.