Sums of 10

Practice finding sums of 10 in this one-player card game. Try working together with your first grader and talk through the best moves. You'll be working on strategy and addition facts at the same time as you place and remove cards from your game board. Critical thinking skills are important, and creating opportunities for your child to use hers will only improve her ability to solve more complex math problems.

What You Need:

• One deck of playing cards
• A Face Cards Around the Perimeter game board (Print out two pages and tape them together.)

What You Do:

1. Lay out the game board and shuffle the cards. Place the cards face down in a pack.
2. Turn over one card from the deck and place it face up in any empty space on the game board. Kings must be placed on a corner. Jacks and queens must be placed on the perimeter. All other cards can be placed anywhere on the board, including corners and the perimeter.
3. When all 16 spaces are covered, scan the board for cards that add up to 10. Remove these combinations and place them in a discard pile.
4. Flip over more cards from the deck and add them to the game board. When the board is full, remove combinations that equal 10, once again.
5. The game is over when a card cannot be played (For example, if you draw a face card and there are no more free spaces along the perimeter.) or the deck has run out.
6. You win if your deck is empty and all 12 face cards are placed along the perimeter of your board.

Variation:

Subtract to find differences of 5.