This game requires a deck of cards (face cards removed) for each group of players. Groups can be two or more. Each student is dealt 5 cards. Students are allowed to use the numbers on those cards to create any numbers they can to add up to as close to 100 as possible. Each student plays 5 times and tries to have his or her total score equal 0. See below for examples:

1st hand: 2, 3, 5, 5, 7

75 + 25 + 3 = 103 Score +3

2nd hand: 1, 9, 6, 2, 3

91 + 6 + 2 + 3 = 102 Score +3 +2 = +5

At this point a student would try to get a total score on the next hand to be less than 100, preferably at 95 so that the score for the hand would be –5 and the total score would be 0.

Variation: Use only four cards to make 50

from:

http://washmath.org/files/GamesAndActivities.pdf