After playing a few hands of Uno with Lindsey today, I told her that if we were playing "for real" (meaning keeping score), that she probably would have won. So she wanted to play "for real," and SHE wanted to be the one who kept score.
Hmmm...okay, we can give this a shot.
The first few were easy -- the person who lost only had 7 points, or 9 points, etc, but eventually we got to adding together 26+19 or 38+17, which calls for carrying numbers to get to the correct total.
So I taught her how to carry numbers.
She understood it, she got it, and she had lots of practice doing it this afternoon.
We decided to only play to 100 just to keep it easier, but we played several games like that, and she kept score every time. What a smart little mathematician!
She may be doing better than Aunt Kristi already. For years and years during spades games all we had to do was look at Kristi and she'd break out laughing when she had a good hand. And she was already an adult!! Good job, Lindsey -- keep it up!
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