Learning & Loving It: Give Me Ten Math Card Game

Learning & Loving It is a series featuring simple, yet fun educational activities for home learning and virtual, interactive tutoring.

Give Me Ten

About:

• First grade and older
• 2 or more players
• Students will recognize numbers and practice basic addition
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  Supplies:

  One deck of playing cards

  Activity Overview

  Remove all face cards before playing. Aces are worth one.

  Objective: Players will take turns finding and removing combinations of cards that add to 10.

  1. Deal 10 cards face up.
  2. From the 10 cards, Player 1 will try to find as many card combinations (using two cards) that will add to 10.
  3. When there are no more combinations left, Player 1 will keep all of the cards used for their equations.
  4. If there is a 10 card, the player will take that card as well.
  5. Replace the cards that were removed so that there are ten cards face up again.
  6. Player 2 will take their turn.
  7. Alternate turns until a player reaches the decided score (1 card=1 point).

  The player with the most cards/points wins.

  Variation: Find three cards that add up to a target number (such as 20).

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