Math Games Kindergarten Students Play with Cards

Of course children love games and there are plenty of math games kindergarten students will enjoy using a deck of playing cards. Why not get them exciting about math at a young age.

This classic game helps students recognize relative values of numbers. Players split a deck of cards and simultaneously flip over their top cards. The highest-value card wins the pair. If the cards have the same value, players deal an additional three cards face down and then place the fourth card face up. The card with the highest value wins all the cards from the round, including the face-down cards.

More or less (Grades K-1)

Each child gets a set of cards Ace through 10 (for the numbers 1-10). One child selects a "secret card" from his or her hand and places it face down. The second child tries to guess what the number on the card is by selecting a card from his hand and placing it face up. The first child then tells whether the secret card is greater or less than the face-up card. The second child continues to make guesses until he has discovered the value of the secret card. Players then switch roles.

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