Playing cards in small groups

A simple resource with minimal preparation. If you don't have playing cards available, kids can easily make up their own number cards in pairs. 

They only need numbered cards or can use the  ace to represent 1 jack to represent 11, queen 12 and king 13.

In the first game children can pick up a card and play doubles, double doubles or triples by turning over a number card and students record the double(2x) or triples (3x) or double doubles (4x). 

An easier maths game is to over 2 cards and add the two numbers together in pairs.

Finally, you can use the cards to play factor bingo. They write the numbers 1-13 three times. Children pick up a card from the pack, for example 9. They then cross out the factors for that number on the sheet (in this case 1, 3, 9) but only on one line for each card until the lines get eliminated, then they go onto the next line. Keep going until all the factors are gone. Children have to wait a turn if their factors are already eliminated.