Description
How it works
Use the same fact-and-sum cards as Concentration, plus one extra card carrying a picture of your school mascot. Shuffle, deal everything out, and have players take turns drawing from the person on their right. Any card that completes a pair — a fact and its sum — gets laid down. Play continues until every match is found and one player is left holding the Old Mascot. The mascot card is a small touch that makes this land with a class in a way a generic deck does not.
What you’ll need
- The printable fact and sum cards, on cardstock
- One extra card with your school mascot on it
- Three to five players
Skills practiced
Matching addition facts to their sums, and quick recognition under the light pressure of not wanting to be caught holding the mascot.
Grade level
1st through 4th grade. Print whichever fact set your class is working on.
Instant PDF download. Game instructions and printable cards adapted from the ideas in Math Fact Fluency by Jennifer Bay-Williams and Gina Kling (ASCD / NCTM, 2019).
