New Math Game -- Making 10's

Here's a game to add to your home math folders: :)

Making 10’s

Materials:One deck of cards

Steps:

1.    To set up the game, put 8 cards face up in a rectangle shape 

2.    Play rock, paper, scissors to determine who gets to go first.

3.    Player 1 makes as many sets of 10 as they can. Face cards are 10. 

·      In the beginning, encourage recognition of single cards that represent 10, as well as two addend combinations to practice basic fact automaticity(i.e. 5+5, 2+9, 7+3, etc.)

·      As your child develops automaticity for two addend combinations, encourage them to also look for multiple addend combinations to develop flexibility of number(i.e. 2+3+5, 2+4+5, 4+3+3) 

·      Next step? Incorporate subtraction into the card combinations, developing your child’s understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction,and developing fluency between operations(8+7-5, 6+6-2, 9+7-4-2)

4.    When Player 1 is out of possibilities, they get one point for each 10 that they made. Record their score. 

5.    After Player 1’s turn, all of the cards get restocked for Player 2’s turn. 

6.    Player 2 makes as many sets of 10 cards as they can.

7.    Points for Player 2 are tallied and recorded. 

8.    You can play as many rounds as you like.

** Important **

If you cannot make any 10’s at all with the cards that are face up, you cover up all the cards with brand new cards and start again.