24 Game
Updated: 7 days ago
Grade Band: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12
Time to Play: 5-10 minutes
Number of Players: 1-8 (best: 4)
Game Style: Competitive
Complexity: Level 1
You can explain the rules without playing a full game for students to know how to play on their own.
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Mathematical Thinking:
Operations
Writing equations using order of operations
Computation Fluency
Description of Game:
"Players win points by being the first to correctly identify how the four numbers on the card can be manipulated to arrive at the number 24.
Players win points by being the first to correctly identify how the four numbers on the card can be manipulated using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and/or division to arrive at the number 24. Cards come in three levels of difficulty, with the easy cards being worth 1 point, medium cards worth 2 points, and hard cards worth 3 points." - BGG
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Teacher Tips:
This game is great for warm ups!
This game can also be replicated with a standard deck of cards; simply remove the face cards, count aces as 1s, and draw four random cards. The main drawback with this method is the lack of guarantee a solution exists.
This game can also be played with more advanced operations such as log, mod, and exponentials.
Rhodes University made a print and play version of the 24 game which is available here.
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