TOP IT Get your cards ready. If you using a deck of playing cards, remove the face cards (Jack, Queen, King, Ace, and Jokers.) ***This will develop skills in comparing numbers through 10. If you are using school number cards, make sure they are cut up. ***This will develop skills in comparing numbers through 22. Shuffle the cards and place face down pile in a pile. Each player takes a card, turns it over and says his/her number. The player with the largest number takes both cards! In a tie, take another card from the pile. The largest number takes all! The game is over when all the cards have been taken. The player with the most cards wins! Materials -a deck of playing cards or school number cards Players 2 Math Skills -comparing numbers (greater than / less than) -the basic rules of this game are prerequisite to games that will be played throughout elementary school