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How to Create a Decimal Board Game

How to Create a Decimal Board Game. Fall Break Homework Assignment Due Date” October 9 th , 2012 (no late submissions) + 350 Credits for a quality board game. Show What you Know about Decimals. You will create a challenging board game

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How to Create a Decimal Board Game

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  1. How to Create a Decimal Board Game Fall Break Homework Assignment Due Date” October 9th, 2012 (no late submissions) + 350 Credits for a quality board game.

  2. Show What you Know about Decimals • You will create a challenging board game • You board game must require players to complete high-level, decimal computations (addition, subtraction, division, multiplication) • In addition, include: rounding, place value and exponents into your game • Challenging board games have: • Roadblocks and false paths that make you backtrack • “lucky” squares that helps you to advance

  3. Planning • Choose a setting for your game board • Castle? • Cave? • Biztown? • Colonial Times? • Jungle? • Digestive Tract (one of the Body Systems we will be studying) • Your own creative idea

  4. Planning • How will players win? • Number of points? • Reaching the end? • Decide how players will move around the game board • Selecting cards and figuring out problems? • Rolling dice? • Both?

  5. Developing your Gameboard • Make a draft of your board • Add details • Use good judgment in determining questions to answer in order to move around the board • Think of adventure and misadventures for your game • “see a shooting star…round 12.394 to the nearest tenth to make a wish and move forward 5 spaces” • “Fall off a cliff…Multiply 15.7 X .00003 correctly or move back 3 spaces”

  6. Designing • You may use whatever you like to make the design of your board • Clip art, Power Point (slide size of 20 in by 20 in), magazine pics, newspaper, photographs, drawings, etc. • If your game requires cards – they should match the theme of your board • Back the game board with cardboard or poster board so that it is durable • Add mathematical details to your game board that require: • +, -, X, division of decimals • Rounding • Comparing and ordering decimals • Exponents • Dividing and multiplying by powers of 10 (.4 X 100; .4 X 100,000 etc.)

  7. Organizing • Finish your game board • Type the rules of your game – focus on clear directions and correct conventions • Organize the cards and/or dice • Make sure it looks PROFESSIONAL • Neat, organized, interesting to look at and mathematically challenging

  8. Online Making your Own Game Board OPTIONAL Tools http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Board-Game Blank Game Board Templates: http://donnayoung.org/homeschooling/games/game-boards.htm Game Board Maker http://www.toolsforeducators.com/boardgames eHow to Make a Board Game http://www.ehow.com/how_2046016_make-board-game.html

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