NUMBER TOP-IT

• Place-Value Mats (Game Masters 22 and 23 - 24 Optional)
• 1 Everything Math Deck, 4 cards each of digits 0-9 only (or an equivalent set of number cards)
• Game Master 24 (optional)

Two (2) or more

This game can be played by two or more players.  The two-players version provides practice in comparing pairs of numbers.  The more-than-two-players version provides practice in ordering sets of number--the more players, the more numbers in the sets.

Players construct 5-digit numbers--and try to make them as large as they can.  A player shuffles the cards and places the deck number-side down on the playing surface.  Each player uses one row of five boxes on the game mat--the boxes in the Ones to Ten-Thousands places.

In each round, players take turns taking the top card from the deck and placing it on any one of their empty boxes.  They do this, in turn, five times.

At the end of each round, players read their own numbers aloud and compare them to the other players' numbers.  The player with the largest number for the round scores 1 point; the player with the next-larger number, 2 points; and so on.

Players play five rounds for a game.  When all the cards in the deck are used, a player shuffles the discards to make a new deck to finish the game.  The player with the smallest total number of points at the end of five rounds wins the game.

NOTE:

Top-It is a Core Activity in Kindergarten Everyday Mathematics.  Children play with a deck made up of 4 cards of each number in a pre-selected range of 10.