This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system! He will need to call upon his knowledge of addition, subtraction, and multiplication in order to navigate the game board. Review the names of the planets before you get started, for a little extra support. Then, draw cards and use your understanding of math facts to compute their totals. Good luck!
What You Need:
- One Tour the Planets coloring sheet (Print this out.)
- Different colored crayon or marker for each player
- Deck of playing cards (Print a deck.)
What You Do:
- Shuffle the deck and place it face down in a pack. Keep in mind aces = 1, jacks = 11, queens = 12, and kings = 13.
- Take turns drawing two cards at a time. A player may use addition, subtraction, or multiplication to combine their two cards together, with the goal of attaining a number between 1 and 9.
- A player's answer indicates which planet they will color in, based on the order of the planets in terms of distance from the sun. For example, Earth could be colored in if the answer was 3 because Earth is the third planet from the sun.
- A player may only color in a planet if they use correct computation, their answer matches the numerical order of that planet, they can correctly name the planet, and the planet has not already been colored in by another player.
- Understandably, a player may not be able to color in a planet on every turn. When this happens, their turn is over and play passes to the next person.
- When all planets have been colored, players count up their planets. The player who has colored the most, wins!
Variation:
Print a coloring sheet for every player. Players race to color in all of their planets first.
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