Monday Math Games: Card Games

I have decided to post some math games each Monday for the next little bit. It is easy to google "Math Games" and come up with hundreds of ideas. I encourage you to do so!

Today, I wanted to look at some card math games since most people likely have a deck of cards at home. (FYI, you can ask your local casino for decks of cards [once this self isolation and social distancing ends] which they give for free to educators - in Vegas I asked and got 5 decks from one lady!)

Sorting

Crazy Sevens (Fan Tan)

• one deck of cards including face cards
• 2+ players (4-6 ideal)
• concepts: sorting by suit, counting up, counting down
• How to play

Counting On

•  one deck of cards, remove face cards (J, Q, K, A, Jokers)
•  1-2 dice 
• 2+ players
•  concepts: counting on from any number besides 1
• How to Play

Builder's Paradise

•  one deck of cards, remove face cards
•  1+ player
• concepts: counting, sequencing, sorting
• How to Play

Addition

Addition War

•  one or more decks of cards
• 2+ players
• K-secondary school
• concepts: addition, greater than/less than, adding and other skills in variations
• How to Play including some awesome variations to this old fave game

Pyramid

•  one deck of cards, face cards removed, except Ace (which = 1 in this game)
• 1+ players
•  concepts: addition and "making ten"
• How to play

Once Through the Deck

• one deck with face cards removed
• 1+ player
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• concepts: basic addition, multiplication
• How to play

Place Value

Place Value (with rounding)

• one deck of cards with tens and face cards removed, use ACE as zero
• 2+ players
•  concepts: place value, rounding
• How to play

Many more Math CARD Games here: