Integer War

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Here is a fun game that I have used in the past that is quick and gives students tons of practice adding integers.  This card game is an interactive way to reinforce the addition of integers.  It can also be modified to reinforce subtraction and multiplication.  The kids love it and I love watching them enjoy integers (for a change).  What I enjoy most of all is beating the student who has beaten all of the other students in the class and has an inflated ego.   

Materials: Deck (or stack) of playing cards for each pair of students

Rules:
•Students should get into pairs.
•Using a deck of playing cards, the students should divide the cards evenly among themselves.
•The red cards are negative and the black cards are positive.  For example a red 10 is a negative ten. The face cards are all 10s. 
•The players each lay their first card out simultaneously. 
•The first player to correctly give the sum of the cards gets to collect both cards and put them in a separate stack. 
•When all of the players’ cards have been played, the players compare the stacks of cards that they won to see which player has the largest stack.  The player with the largest stack of “won” cards is the winner.
•Similar to the card game “I Declare War” the students can continue playing with the stacks that they won or they can evenly distribute the cards again. 


Modifications of this strategy are:
•Have the pair of students place one card in the middle as
 a stationary card.  Then each player throws out a card. 
 This would make the students have to add 3 cards. 
•Students could use the same rules and multiply instead of 
add. 
•If the teacher needed wanted to require the students to show 
their work, then the students could write the equation down 
before the winner collected the cards. 

Comments

Anonymous said…
This game sounds like fun! I can’t wait to play it with my kids on Monday.
May 3, 2019 at 6:07 PM
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