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Originally submitted by Raymond Corrigan on June 29, 2010.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
A deck of cards for every two groups:
- Divide the deck into black and red piles
- Remove Jokers, Kings, Queens, and Jacks.
DETAILED EXPLANATION:
- Divide the students into groups of three or four.
- Hand out a 1/2 deck (black or red) to each group.
- Player 1 flips the first card over and says its value. ("one"; "ten")
- Player 1 flips over the next card and says the sum of the two cards. ("seventeen"; "twenty")
If the cards are the same value, he or she keeps them. If they are of different values, they are turned face down in a separate pile.
Repeat with player 2.
The player with the most cards at the end of the game is the winner.
VARIATIONS:
- To practice numbers 1-100, have students multiply the card values.
TEACHING SUGGESTIONS:
- Make sure students are saying the numbers. If a student cannot say the number, the others must help.
- Special needs classes may work best without addition or subtraction. Saying the value of the card is enough. (1-10)