by admin | Oct 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
A few days ago, I was practicing the multiplication tables with my seven year old son. He was getting tired of the multiplication flash cards, so I thought of designing a game with him. I thought that it might be interesting if we had the answer and we were trying to find the factors for it. Something different. We cut cards almost the size of playing cards and wrote the answers of all the multiplication tables 1-10. We made 42 cards. We took a playing cards deck and left only the cards with the numbers in it. Then we thought of placing some of the answer cards down. We decided to put six cards down. We shuffled the playing cards and gave 4 to each player. (my nine-year-old son got interested by that time, so we became three players). The goal of the game was to find a pair in your cards that when multiplied gives one of the answers that are down. Then you get to keep the answer card. Every time someone takes an answer card, we put a new one in. The playing cards in our hands were getting less too, so we decided that when you have no lucky pair you should get one more card. Then we realized that you need an even number of cards otherwise you will end up with one card at some point. So we thought that we should take two every time. But what happens when the playing cards finish? Problem solved. The pair of cards that you use for getting the answer card will be put back in the... Read More
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