I don’t remember, but it might be called “100″ or something equally simple.  And I NEED simple math games!  After breakfast this morning I pulled out a deck of cards and started removing the face cards.

Only Sally Mae (age 6) and Slim (age 9) were home with me.  So I started talking about how ya play this game and they got interested.  I handed Sally Mae a hundred chart and we had lots of fun playin’ this.

You just hold the deck of cards in your hand and turn over one card at a time adding the value of each card, making a running total as you go.  The goal is to get to 100 (or over).

You do the math in your head, unless you are not good at that yet, then you can use the 100 chart.

Once we got to 100 we counted the cards we had used (22 this morning).

Then we shuffled ‘em and played again only this time we went from 100 down to zero (or below).  That was a bit tougher on the old noggin so we used our 100 chart more.

Again, we counted our cards when we were done, hmm only 18 this time.  Then of course we calculated the difference.

More math than we’ve done on a Saturday in a long time.

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