The Math Game

by Ruby Stedman

I have been playing with my stroller that my momma gave to me. And now I am writing about it. As you see, there will be a very funny smoochy picture at the side. Me and my mommy. She probably thinks she needs a shower right now. Because she always looks like that when she does want to. Her hair is always scraggly. We are eating peanuts, me and my mom.

My brother Isaac is going to be writing after me. My brother Peter wrote before me. Me and my brother Isaac just played a cool math game. This is how you play:

1. Make the cards by writing card sized evenly with pen with a ruler so it's even.
2. You write numbers on each card and write the word like "1" or "2" and "one" or "two"

3. Then you set the cards out without looking at where you are putting them or what number you have. You set them in order, five in each row.

4. This is how you start to play the game. You pick up one card and you look at what number it is. If it is not a "10", flip over another card. Whatever the number is, if it is enough to add up to ten, you keep them and that is a match. You have to add up the two numbers you have.

5. The name of this game is called Tens. If you pick up a "10", you get to keep it just like the matches.

I wish I had slippers. And a big trampoline like my friend Addie does. The end of the story.