Top Trumps Classroom Party!

Top Trumps Classroom Party
― Oct 3-7, 2022 ―

Top Trumps are fast-paced, easy-to-learn, competitive card games that are great tools for teaching. The games provide opportunities for critical and creative thinking and problem solving across multiple themes and content areas. Through the use of interesting informational text cards featuring colorful graphics and illustrations, children are learning and satisfying the requirements of the CCSS without even knowing it! A Spanish set of games are included for the first time!

Top Trumps also helps promote positive learning outcomes in terms of literacy, numeracy and decision-making abilities. The high-interest games allow students the opportunity to practice reading skills, learn new words or mathematical terms such as units, practice number skills such as comparing heights, weights, dates, sharpen decision-making skills to make choices, develop strategic play skills, learn and retain new facts and figures through play. The mathematical games introduce mathematical practices and provide students opportunities through active play to learn to reason and model numbers and operations in a variety of concepts.

Tryazon will select 100 educators (including librarians, specialists, Spanish teachers, after school program coordinators, etc.) for the opportunity to join the fun. Those chosen will receive a variety of different Top Trumps games to play at their party. Learn more about the game and party by clicking the tabs below!

Hosts selected for this party will receive a party pack valued up to $80+, containing the following items:

Social Studies Bundle:

Top Trumps United States
Top Trumps US Presidents
Top Trumps Countries of the World

AND

"Wildlife" Bundle:

Top Trumps Predators
Top Trumps Bugs
Top Trumps North American Wildlife

AND

Spanish Bundle:

Top Trumps Autos Deportivos (Sports Cars)
Top Trumps Depredadores (Predators)
Top Trumps Dinosaurios (Dinosaurs)
Top Trumps Las Maravillas del Mundo (Wonders of the World)
Party Host Guide - to help you plan and carry out the party!

Top Trumps has been a best-selling game in England since the 1970s, with over 80 million packs sold in the last 10 years alone. Part of the game’s success has been through its role in education, with Top Trumps forming a part of teacher learning plans throughout the UK.In 2011 the National Children’s Bureau in England carried out research into the role of Top Trumps in education. It found that Top Trumps improves children’s literacy and numeracy skills, while also enabling them to practice their decision making abilities. For the full report from the NCB, please click here.

Top Trumps History
- In the 1970s, Top Trumps was launched by Dubreq, the makers of the stylophone.
- In 1982, Top Trumps was acquired by Waddingtons.
- In 1994, Top Trumps was acquired by Hasbro, and licensed by Winning Moves.
- In 1999, Top Trumps was acquired by Winning Moves.
- In 2019, Most played and owned card game in the UK and the world's no.1 educational card game

Top Trumps & Education

The Common Core and other State Standards call for increased use of nonfiction resources across a variety of mediums. They call for the close and meaningful reading and manipulation of complex and challenging materials in ways that allow students to reach the highest orders of thinking and analysis.

To support this requirement, Top Trumps affords solutions for your students by providing opportunities for critical and creative thinking and problem solving across multiple themes and content areas. They provide an avenue for students to develop academic and content specific vocabulary while meeting the need for differentiated learning. Through the use of interesting informational text cards featuring colorful graphics and illustrations, children are learning and satisfying the requirements of the CCSS without even knowing it!

Top Trumps also helps promote positive learning outcomes in terms of literacy, numeracy and decision-making abilities. The high-interest games allow students the opportunity to practice reading skills, learn new words or mathematical terms such as units, practice number skills such as comparing heights, weights, dates, sharpen decision-making skills to make choices, develop strategic play skills, learn and retain new facts and figures through play. The mathematical games introduce mathematical practices and provide students opportunities through active play to learn to reason and model numbers and operations in a variety of concepts.

Both the new Next Generation Science and STEAM standards require a new level of rigor for today’s classrooms. Following these standards, Top Trump’s science games track the strands of science and scientific practices and have been developed to be rich in content. As called for in the standards, they allow students to explore information in the technical subjects and integrate literacy skills throughout. The science cards open new worlds of wonder and knowledge by inspiring discovery and exploration through a wide-range of topics that feature content-rich study of life, science, and earth and space concepts.

The new C3 Framework for Social Studies is composed of deep and enduring understandings, concepts, and skills from the disciplines and emphasizes skills and practices as preparation for democratic decision-making. In addition, Social studies education should have direct and explicit connections to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. While providing the CCSS connections, the Top Trumps game packs will assist you in guiding students to draw parallels between contemporary issues and their historical origins leading to engaging classroom discussions and a deep understanding of past and present day issues all through play!

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How To Play Top Trumps

Any number of people can play Top Trumps, that’s what makes it the world’s coolest card game!
1. Shuffle and deal the cards face down.
2. Players pick up their cards and look at their top cards only.
3. Player 1 (left of dealer) chooses and calls out their best stat (e.g. 'Dark Side - 6').
4. The other players see if they can beat this stat (Highest number wins).
5. The card with the highest stat wins all of the top cards and adds them to the base of their pile.
6. The winner of the round chooses the stat for the next round.
7. The first player to get all of the cards wins!

Sept 11Applications Due
All educator applications need to be received by this date.
Sept 12 Hosts Selected
Educators will receive notification by email by this date. Those educators who are accepted and confirmed will have their party packs shipped to them.
Sept 13Start Party Planning
Hosts can begin planning for their parties. Tryazon will provide party guides and resources to assist!
Oct 3Host Parties
The fun begins in October, when parties will be hosted!

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Tryazon will select up to 100 hosts for this party.

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In this overly wired-in modern age, it's good to have a good old fashioned trivia based card game for kids to play. These cards are not only good for fun head to head or group matches but also provide educational value as well. There is no need to know the info beforehand and players learn a lot of neat trivia as the game progresses. It's really super simple to play and one of those games where kids can learn neat facts without even realizing they're learning.
J, Amazon Review

Top Trumps Classroom Party