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The Top Trumps brand is used here with the kind permission of Winning Moves UK Ltd, owners of the Top Trumps brand and trade mark.

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Find out about other great ways to use Top Trumps at School as an educational resource. Free resources and ideas.

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In 2011, The National Children's Bureau (The NCB) carried out some research on the National Schools Top Trumps Tournament and found that Top Trumps does help children improve their basic numeracy and literacy, as well as help them gain and deepen their knowledge on the subject matter covered in the pack. Click on the picture for details on how your school can join in

Everybody loves Top Trumps. They're fast-paced, super competitive, and easy for anyone to pick up and enjoy. They're also a great tool for teaching and learning; whether it's teaching kids the size of jungle predators or opening a discussion on the 1936 Olympic Games, we know that kids love to learn heaps of amazing facts and stats through Top Trumps Here I will add as many as I can find from various sources.

Top Trumps Baby Animals.

Love these resources based on the book 'Baby Animals' by Carol Read. There are the cards and lesson plans to use.
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Differentiated Top Trumps Maths Challenges.

Thanks to my mate Gaz Needle @gazneedle for sharing this with us. He is going to use it in his lesson observation which I am sure will be brilliant. Using the Top Trump packs pictured on the left of the sheet, children choose which level of challenge they want to answer and have a go at answering it.
Gaz created the top document which I have edited so that Top Trumps that can be downloaded from this site can be used. 
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The sheets below feature Top Trump sets that can be downloaded from this site.

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Maths / Literacy - Cross Curricular Top Trumps.

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Thanks to Fiona (@FKRitson) fr sharing this great idea, to use centred around a book:

Fiona says "As part of studying the novel, students need to analyse who is the weakest character one lesson, and in another who holds the most power. I thought it may be ‘fun’ to turn into a top trumps as students will see different things. Rather than running over same ground, we can focus on writing.
The top trumps also makes the lesson cross-curricular with regards numeracy!"

What is great is although these are themed for 'Of Mice and Men' they could be used with any book, for younger children you could look at the Gruffalo and have less criteria.

Main Weakness

Main Strength

Importance to Plot

Intelligence

You could look at the animals in the wood such as the fox and say are they important to the plot? You could substitute for another woodland creature but would they want to eat the mouse? If you chose a jungle animal the setting would then change. We would think the mouse would be most intelligent but who would be the least?

There are some blank Top Trumps below, if you use this idea please let us know [email protected] or through Twitter @grahamandre.

Thank you again Fiona.
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Following Fiona's great idea above, I was talking to @digitalmaverick on Twitter and he said that he had used Top Trumps with his children to get to know them better and for them to work together and get to know each other. I took this idea and made an example of what could be done. I have put height, shoe size, door number and hand span as the categories but you could have number of pets, how many pencils in the pencil case, how many jumps in a minute...anything that can be measured with a number.

What would be nice would be to do the same activity every term and look for differences over the school year.
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Retro Top Trumps

While surfing the net I found various images of late 70s/ early 80s Top Trumps and decided to collect them together and make retro Top Trumps for your enjoyment.

Horror Top Trumps Set 1 - I loved these.

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Horror Top Trumps Set 2

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Prehistoric Animals

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Aliens and Space Warriors

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Goblins and Faerie Folk.

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Spacecraft

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County Cricketers 1978.

My friend and colleague Mr Dave Killpack will enjoy looking at these.
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Heroes and Villains Top Trumps.

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Solving equations: Superhero 
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Moshi Monsters top Trumps.

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Times Table: Moshi Monster 
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Star Wars Top Trumps.

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Standard Form : Star Wars 
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Moshi Monsters Division.

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Division: Moshi Monster 

I'm a Celebrity

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Percentage of an Amount: I'm a Celebrity 
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Footballers

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These are brilliant.... Footballers
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Tomb Raider Top Trumps.

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Tomb Raider 
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Healthy Food Top Trumps

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Healthy Eating 
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Myths and Legends Top Trumps.

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Myths and Legends 
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Minibeasts Top Trumps

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Minibeast 
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Superhero Top Trumps.

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Super Hero 
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Celebrity Top Trumps

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Solving equations: Celebrities
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Solar System Top Trumps.

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Solar System 
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Materials Top Trumps.

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Materials 
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Cartoon Top Trumps.

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Angles: Cartoon
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Victorians
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Simpsons 
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Fractions: Celebrities 
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Cartoons 2
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Animals
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Pop Stars
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Minibeast 
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Flowers
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Trees
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British Wildlife 
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Fungi 
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Polygon Shape Properties 
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Muppets Percentage 
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Nutrition 
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Book Characters
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Multiplication and Addition 
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Periodic Table 
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WW2 Aircraft 
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