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It's important to be
able to add and subtract quickly and accurately, and this activity is the
perfect way for your children or students to practice their math.
All you need to play is a deck of playing cards, paper and a pencil. The
primary focus in this game is addition, but if any one player gets too far
ahead, the other players can work together to level the playing field and use
subtraction to take away points from the leader.
What You Need:
- Deck of playing
cards (with the face cards removed)
- Paper
- Pencil
What You Do:
- Divide the cards
evenly between all of the players and explain that for the purposes of
this game, aces= 1.
- Decide how many
points to play to, in order to declare a winner, and which player
will be the scorekeeper. Give the scorekeeper the paper and pencil.
- To begin a
round, players should flip over the top card of their
pile and place it face up for all the other players to see. Each
player should take a turn solving an equation using the numbers played.
Only two numbers can be used.
- Players can then
decide whether they want to use the result to add to their own score by
creating an addition equation, or create a subtraction equation to take
away points from another player.
- The first player
to reach the set amount of points you agreed upon at the beginning of the
game wins.
If you're working with
older kids, you can also incorporate multiplication and division problems.
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