Math Practice with a deck of Cards – 5 minute activities
Skip counting
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Odds and Evens- Remove the picture cards. Place the deck face down. 1st player predicts if
their card will be odd or even. If they are correct, they keep the card. The player with the
most cards is the winner.
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Skip counting - Pick up a number card, start counting forward by 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s or 7s from
that number.
Place value
Biggest or smallest number- Each player picks up 2 number cards and makes the biggest or
smallest number. This can be extended to making 3 or 4 digit numbers.
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Making Numbers -Using a deck of cards students are asked to draw 3
cards. They are to write all the 3 digit numbers their cards can make. Eg:
3 6 and 2 can make 362, 326, 236, 263....
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10 more or 10 less – Pick up 2 or 3 number cards. Make the biggest or
the smallest number. Ask your child questions such as – What is 10 more than this number?
What is 10 less than this number? What is 5 more or 5 less?
Addition and Subtraction facts
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Salute – 3 players. 2 players hold up a card to their forehead without looking at it, but so
the other 2 players can see it. Player 3 then calls out the total. The other 2 players have to
guess the numbers on their cards.
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Addition Number Battle – Split the deck. Each player picks up 2 cards. The one with the
biggest total is the winner. This can be changed to the one with the smallest total. For an
extra challenge pick up 3 cards and total them.
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Find the difference- Hold up 2 cards and ask them to find the difference between the 2
numbers.
Websites you might like to try
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games
There are different levels and areas of maths
including measurement and geometry and statistics and probability.
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm There are a number of
‘telling the time’ tasks aimed at different levels of understanding from o’clock to 1 min intervals and
digital time.
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/index.htm For addition and
subtraction practice. There are many different activities for all areas of maths and for different
levels of expertise and interest.