Below is the November game Largest Number. You can play with kindergarten through 5th grade students. The grades best to play each version are located on each playing mat. You do not need the mat to play the game, just a set of playing cards or Uno cards.
Directions for Largest Number
Comparing Numbers Game for 2 -4 Players
Need:
Pack of playing cards with the picture cards removed. Aces are valued at 1.
Getting Ready:
Select the number of digits to be used in the numbers for this game, e.g. 2 digit numbers, 3 digit numbers, 4, 5 or 6 digit numbers. Each player is dealt that number of cards.
How to Play:
Players arrange their cards to make the largest possible number with the cards that they have been dealt, e.g. with cards 2, 5 and 8, a player would make 852.
The player with the largest number in each round keeps the cards they were dealt.
The game ends when there are not enough cards to deal out. The winner is the player who has collected the most cards.
