Grade

K-2

K-2

Activities
Card Sort:
Groups of 4.
Using a deck of cards, the
students can sort the deck by
different attributes.
The attributes they can sort by
are: numbers, colors, suit.
Variation:
The teacher can give students
different patterns to follow such
as, ABA, ABCABC, ABBA,
ABAABABAAB. The students can
then make patterns with the
cards.
Memory:
In groups of four, have the
students arrange the cards face
down, neatly on the floor.
Players take turns flipping over
two cards. If they match, they
keep the cards and go again. If
they do not match, they flip
them back over and the next
person goes.
Game is over when all matches
are found.

Materials
Deck of cards (5)

Deck of cards (5)

Variation:
Odd/Even Memory Game:
Instead of matching the same
number, the students will match
the cards based on if they are
both odd/even.
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Dice Battle (Adding/Subtracting):

Each pair of 2 gets 2 dice. Each
student will roll the dice and the
person who rolls the highest
number goes first.
The first student will roll two
dice. They will then add the

Dice (20)

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sum/subtract the difference.

(Students can write their
sum/difference down on a piece
of paper)
The student with the highest
number in the end wins that
battle.
To keep track of the number of
battles won they will keep score
using tally marks on paper.

Variation:
For kindergarten, they could
play this game with a simple
modification. In pairs they will
dice battle and whoever gets the
highest number wins that battle.
To keep track of the number of
battles, they can collect
counters. The first person to
collect 10 counters wins the
game.
If you cannot find counters, they can
just draw a line to keep score. The first
person to get 10 lines wins
Greater or Less Than:
Deck of Cards (5)
In partners, one student draws a card
but does not reveal it to their partner.
The partner guesses a number and the
other says greater or less than until
their partner guesses the correct
number.
Number Battle:
Deck of cards (5)
In partners, the students spilt
the deck in two. The students
then flip over their cards at the
same time. The highest card
wins. The student who wins then
collects both cards and puts
them in a pile.
If they have the same card, each
student lays 3 cards down and
flips the 4th. The highest card
wins and the student collects all
10 cards.

Variations:
Place Value Number Battle
Instead of flipping one card over
at a time, the students will flip 2
cards over and arrange them to
make the largest number they
can.
The student with the highest
number wins and collects all
cards.
Addition/Subtraction Number Battle
The students flip over 2 cards
and add/subtract the numbers.
The student with the higher
sum/difference wins the cards.
If they have the same
sum/difference, then the cards
go in the middle and the person
who wins the next battle gets all
the cards.
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Note: Face cards are worth 10.

Give Me 10:
In groups of 4, students will deal
12 cards face up. The players
then take turns finding and
removing combinations of cards
that make 10.
When they all agree that they
have no more combinations of
10, they deal 12 more cards.

Deck of Card (5)

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Flip 10:
Deck of Cards (5)
Groups of 4, have the students
take out cards 10 to king. Then
line up cards in 4 rows of 5.
They will take turns flipping over
2 cards. If the sum equals 10,
they keep the cards and replace
the cards with two more from
the deck.
The game is over when there are
no more matches that add to 10.

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Math Baseball:
3 chairs to be the bases
Divide the class into two teams.
One team is up to bat and the
teacher mentally gives them an
addition math fact to solve.
The students get 5 seconds to
answer, if they do not answer at
all or incorrectly they get a
strike.
3 strikes and the teams is out
and the next team is up to bat.
Each question a student gets
correct they move 1 base. After
third base the student is back
home. Then they join the back of
the line and get 1 point for their
team.
If a student gets it wrong, then
you repeat the question until
someone answers it correctly.
Variations:
To advance this game the
teacher can give subtraction
math facts or a combination of
both addition and subtraction.