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Jan 262013
 

Number of players 2-4

Equipment. One pack of cards with picture cards removed.

Play

The black cards are positive numbers and the red cards are negative numbers. Ace is one. Each player is dealt 2 cards. Each player chooses  whether to accept a third card from the dealer. The object is to make the total of the cards in your hand as close to zero as possible. The hand shown on the right is +7.

Each round the winner scores zero and losing players score the difference of their hand from zero. The pictured hand would score 7 points.

Play continues until one player reaches 50 points. The winner is the player with the least points.

 

Oct 052012
 

Download, print and cut out the triangles. Work with a friend to try and match all the questions with the correct answers and make a shape.

Probability Level 1 Jigsaw

Jul 062012
 

Download the pdf, print it and cut out the dominoes. Work with a friend to put them together correctly or play dominoes by sharing the dominoes and taking it in turns to place the next domino. If you can’t go the other player has another turn. The winner is the first to place all their dominoes correctly.

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If you have never played cards before here is a magician showing you what they look like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkE4KEWiDRs


You need to understand there are four suits, spades♠, hearts♥, diamonds♦ and clubs♣.
Spades and clubs are black, hearts and diamonds are red. There are 13 cards in each suit, so altogether there are 4×13=52 cards in a pack. Number one is called an Ace. They are then numbered up to 10. After 10 there is a Jack, Queen and King.These are called picture cards.

 

Thanks to Mr Barton Maths for this Jigsaw.

If you are struggling you can view the solution here.
Simple Probability Solution