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Target Number – Math Card Game

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Math games are a big thing at our house. We love playing all kinds of learning games. We played a really challenging math card game together this week and it was a great one for upper elementary learners. We call it Target Math.

Target Math Card Game

When we played, we used two decks of cards. You remove the face cards, but keep in the aces. Aces equal one.  Shuffle them and deal out four cards for each player. Then flip the top card from the deck over in the center. This is the Target Card.

Target Number Math Card Game

Then, with the cards in your hands, you have to add, subtract, multiply or divide to get to the target number. The goal is to do it with all four cards. If you get to the target number, you get a point. Then you dump your cards and the target number and deal out again. Repeat it until someone gets to three points first.

It’s a pretty simple game, and it really uses all kinds of math skills to figure out how to get to the target number.

There are tons of other ways to practice math with cards. We love playing math war with cards, too. You can modify this to practice adding, subtracting or multiplying!

What is your favorite math card game? 

Want even more fun math games?

We have a ton for you!  Check out some of these:

Goldfish Catch a Number is a printable math card game that I made.
Count Your Dots is another math game we play with a deck of cards.
Check out this Multiplication Card game we reviewed.

And even more math games we have done:

Great Graphing Race
Pick-Up Stick Math
Peekaboo Math Game
Cupid’s Arrow Math Game
Pentomino Blocks Math Game
Leap Frog Math Game
Popsicle Sticks Math Games
Build a House Math Bingo
Safe Cracker Math Game

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4 Comments

  1. We loved this! We played it with 5 people ages 9 to 56. The 9 year old won! We combined it with a timer (2 minutes) and the game of HORSE, which we changed to MEXICO, which is where we are at the moment. So if you could hit the target number you got an M next round you get an E, next round an X, etc. Very nice game.

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