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Name of Activity: Card Play

Academic content: Math

Purpose of Activity: To help children practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a creative way.

Prerequisites: Students will need to know how to add and subtract and/or multiply and divide.

Suggested Grade Level: 2-4

Materials Needed: one deck of playing cards for twenty students

Physical activity: locomotor movement, pathways

Description of Idea

Variations:

Have students perform a specific locomotor movement or pathway that they have been working on in the physical education classroom.

Scatter the cards around the gym and have the students skip around and find the cards as they travel. This might work better for younger students learning addition/subtraction.

To challenge students, you could require them to use three cards (ex: a 9, 6 and 2). To make "6" they could say "9 - 6 = 3, then 3 x 2 = 6."

Assessment Ideas:

Hold up or have on a sheet of paper two playing cards for each question (or three for higher levels) and have them make an equation that equals a certain number.

Have older students take two cards and make 4 equations using all four methods of math.

Have students write the equations down as they are doing the activity or try to find as many solutions as possible for each number called out.

Teaching Suggestions:

If playing cards aren't available, one could write out 4 sets of 1-10 cards.

Adaptations for Students with Disabilities:

If you have a hearing-impaired child in the class, when you call out the number hold up a card with the number so that they can see the number as well.