I found this idea in an old Mailbox magazine I picked up at a thrift store, its from Feb/March of 1990! :-) I am a Mailbox subscriber, and so when I saw this one, for .25 I couldn't pass it up. And it has proven worth it's quarter, already!
It's similar to War, but it is titled "Porky" (Pigging Out on Place Value is the section it's in.)
It makes a great center if you have more than one child (they can play together like mine are) or as a family game if you have an only, or kids in to wide of an age range to play this together. I also can think of some different variations.
You take a deck of cards, and remove all the tens (and jokers or wild cards). Aces=1, and face cards=0. Deal out all of the cards, then you flip over the top two. The first card is your ones place, and the second card is your tens place. The child then 'reads' the number ("I have a 7 in my tens place, and a 4 in my ones place, I have 74." kind of thing). Then they compare with the other player(s) to see who has the highest number. Whomever has the highest number gets all 4 cards. If there is a tie, the first person to yell "PORKY!" wins the cards. First person to get ALL the cards, wins.
Simple. Fun!
A couple Variations:
- You could easily make it three cards or more to include higher place values as they move up (we are playing a higher place value version).
- You could also do a variation where you added or multiplied the numbers, instead of doing place value.
- You could have the child BUILD the number they draw with cuisenaire rods (or other math manipulatives).
Enjoy!
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