Go fish
Collecting and solving doubles
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You will need:
playing cards 1-10
someone to play with.
Watch the video to learn how to play
Transcript
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How to play
Each player gets 7 cards. The rest of the cards are placed in a pile in the middle as the draw pile.
Players try to make matches, that is, pairs of cards that are the same.
Once players can't make any more matches using their own cards, they can take turns to ask their opponent for a card.
If their opponent has a card of that number they must give it to the asking player.
If they don't, they say 'go fish' and the player gets a card from the central pile of cards.
For the player to keep the match they must solve the doubles fact. For example, if a player collected a double 9, they must solve and say ‘double 9 is 18’ to their opponent.
If at any point a player has no cards left, they can pick up another 7 cards from the draw pile.
Play continues until all there are no cards left in the draw pile and/or all matches have been made.
The player with the most matches at the end is the winner!
Discuss/reflect
How many pairs did you collect?
Is this more than, less than or the same as your opponent?
What’s the difference between how many pairs you collected and how many pairs your opponent collected?
What strategies did you use to solve the doubles?
If you played the game again tomorrow, what’s an adaptation we could make?