Fun Math Games! Making Ten and Ordering to Ten

Math Practice with Playing Cards

Fun games to play with actual playing cards or on a device

    This is just a quick post to explain a couple of card games that are fun for any age, but particularly great for young PreK and lower elementary students that are learning addition to ten.  Trust me, a few rounds of these engaging games and they will know their addition to ten and order of numbers to ten.

   Here is a quick video that shows how to play the making ten game with a real deck of cards in a math center or for an exciting learning game at home at the kitchen table.

 

   For the digital version, here is a link to my Boom Cards.  It has 21 slides.  Playing cards that are included are Ace - Ten.  The digital version does not use the face cards. The nice thing about the digital version is that it is self-checking.  It rewards the student when they get the correct combination and has them try again if they missed it.

   The second game is perfect for Pre-k to 1st grade kiddos.  Just grab the Ace through ten card of ONE suit.  Shuffle them up and your student will put them down in the correct order from Ace to ten.

Once they get the hang of that, you can add in the Ace through ten of the remaining three suits.  Challenge students to SORT the cards into their proper suits first (great added sorting activity!) and THEN put each suit in order Ace - ten.

   If you would like the convenience of playing a version of this math card game on a device, please check out my Boom Cards - Build a Pond Ordering Numbers to Ten:

   The great thing about these Boom Cards is that they are self checking.  Students will be rewarded with a "ding" when they are correct, and get a chance to fix it if they don't have it quite right.  These Boom Cards reward students with an additional pond sticker of an animal or plant on each page.  On the final slide, they get to use all the stickers they won to make a pond scene.  Kinda fun if you ask me!

   If you try these with your students or know of any other fun math games with playing cards, please leave a comment!