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Using playing cards for addition
Skogsbackeskolan
Karlstad
Age:
7-9 years old

Aims:
To learn numbers that make 5 -10 and know them by heart. This is very important because it saves a lot of time. No fingers should be used!!!!

Materials:
A deck of cards. Don´t use jacks, queens or kings. Use all the cards if you are going to work with numbers which make 10. If you want to practise 5, you take out the cards with face value higher than 5.

Main part:
1-2 pupils. Work with 5. Use cards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Put the cards face down. One pupil turns a card over and says the number that you have to add to it to make 5. If it is correct he/she keeps the card. When all the cards are used the pupils count their cards and the one who has got the most is “the winner”.

2-4 pupil. Work with 10. Put the cards face down. One pupil turns a card over, looks at it and quickly says the number that you have to add to it to make 10. The pupil keeps the card if it is correct and the next pupil takes their turn. Continue until no cards are left. The one who has got the most cards has won.

Round up:
 If the pupils knows which numbers go together (eg. 5 and 3 make 8) it becomes easier to work with mathematics in the future.

 
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