Level Up Your Math Skills with Fun: The Cribbage Solution

If students need to boost their numeracy skills, I recommend that they play cribbage with their family and friends. This popular card game can be played with two to four people, and the only item necessary to play is a standard 52-card deck of cards and paper and pencil to keep score (though a cribbage board helps with the scoring).

Among other ways of scoring, players need to create combinations of cards which add up to 15 or 31. The game aids pattern recognition and mental arithmetic. It is also quick; a game rarely lasts more than 20 minutes. (In the hand below, we would play the 6 on the nine to score 2. When the time comes to count our hand, we would count 15-2 (5-6-4), 15-4 (5-Q), and a run of 3 (4-5-6) for a total of 7. ) First to 121 wins!