Salute – addition
Concept:
Description:
Players in groups of threes use playing cards to practice addition and subtraction. The captain gives each player a card and they put it on their forehead (salute). The captain tells them the total of the two cards. The players have to guess the number on their card.
Purpose
Practice addition and subtraction
Materials
- Deck of cards
How to play:
- Remove all picture cards from the deck (i.e. jack, queen, king, joker)
- Learners get into groups of three, select the ‘captain’. Captain deals one card to each player, face down.
- When the dealer says “salute”, each player raises the card to his or her forehead.
- The card must face outward but each player may not see their own card.
- The Captain states the total of the cards.
- Each player has to determine the value of the card on his or her forehead by looking at the other person’s card and finding the difference between that and the total.
Notes:
For a greater challenge, have a bigger group of sailors. Each sailor will then have to add together the numbers of all the other sailors and subtract that from the total to work out their number.