This brand new page has been created purely because of a most welcome and lovely approach from the wonderful team at education.com, a website dedicated to empowering parents and teachers to help their children build essential skills!
They offered to guest post on the blog so as to reach more homeschoolers and world travellers who are schooling on the road. I hope you enjoy the activity they have sent us and please make sure to check them out for more games and activities to help your child!
Here is Shannon's quick explanation of how to play a new card game with your little ones to help them with simple addition.
MAKING 14
Your child will quickly learn how to add up to sums of 14 with a game they can play all by themselves. Using a deck of cards and their knowledge of addition, they will strive to lower their score each and every time they play.
What You Need:
Deck of cards with the face cards (jacks, queens, and kings) removed
What You Do:
They offered to guest post on the blog so as to reach more homeschoolers and world travellers who are schooling on the road. I hope you enjoy the activity they have sent us and please make sure to check them out for more games and activities to help your child!
Here is Shannon's quick explanation of how to play a new card game with your little ones to help them with simple addition.
MAKING 14
Your child will quickly learn how to add up to sums of 14 with a game they can play all by themselves. Using a deck of cards and their knowledge of addition, they will strive to lower their score each and every time they play.
What You Need:
Deck of cards with the face cards (jacks, queens, and kings) removed
What You Do:
- Play the first round with your child to make sure they understand the game. Ask them to start by shuffling the deck.
- Tell them that for the purposes of the game aces = 1.
- Have them deal out all 40 cards face up into 13 separate piles of 4 cards each.
- Ask them to turn over the piles, one at a time, and start searching out all of the different combinations of cards that add up to equal 14.
- Have them play until there are no more moves possible.
- Count the cards that remain and tally up their score for the round. The lower the score, the better.
- Have them play again and try to beat their score. With enough practice, they might be able to use all of the cards and get a perfect score of 0!
A picture of an example is outlined below.
We hope you enjoy the game and hope to see you in our community at www.education.com for loads more fun ideas!
