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DAMATH

DAMATH. Alma C. Te SPED 503 – Strategy Share 3/13/12. Does this look familiar?. CHECKERS Game. Damath. Damath History. Damath comes from the Filipino checker board game called “ dama ” and mathematics .

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DAMATH

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  1. DAMATH Alma C. Te SPED 503 – Strategy Share 3/13/12

  2. Does this look familiar? CHECKERS Game

  3. Damath

  4. Damath History • Damath comes from the Filipino checker board game called “dama”and mathematics. • It was invented in 1975 by Jesus Huenda, a teacher from Sorsogon, Philippines who had encountered problems in teaching math using traditional teaching methods. • It blends local culture, education, and digital technology that aims to make math teaching and learning student-friendly, challenging, and interactive.

  5. Benefits of Damath • Aside from teaching students how to play strategically, Damath also helps students to further develop and strengthen their math operational skills (operations involving whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, etc). • Students who used to dislike math are actually learning how to use math when they play Damathand in the process learn the subject.

  6. The Game Board

  7. Basic Gameplay • Toss a coin to determine which player will have the first move. • Moving a chip means sliding it diagonally in the forward direction. • Backward direction is only allowed when taking an opponent’s chip. • The two players alternately take turns in moving a chip. Pass is not allowed. • After each move, the player has to record his/her move in a score sheet. • In taking an opponent’s chip, the taker chip jumps over the taken chip and uses the operation symbol it lands on. • A chip is declared ‘dama’ if it reaches the end row of the the opponent. • A ‘dama’ chip can slide diagonally forward or backward in any unoccupied square as long as no opponent’s chip blocks its path. • If a ‘dama’ chip takes a chip, its score is doubled. • If a ‘dama’ chip takes an opponent’s ‘dama’ chip, its score is quadrupled.

  8. Basic Gameplay, cont’d… • The game ends if: • The 20-minute game period lapsed • The moves are repetitive • A player has no more chip to move • An opponent’s chip is cornered • The remaining chip or chips of the players are to be added to their respective scores. If the remaining chip is a “dama”, then its score is also doubled. • The player with the greater accumulated total score wins the game.

  9. Other Applications • Counting Numbers: Countess Damath • Whole Numbers: Damath-in-a-Whole • Integers: Damath the Teeny Integer • Decimals: Busy DeciDamath • Fractions: Damath Over U • Prime Numbers: Damath the Old Prime Madonna • Fibonacci Sequence: Damath the Fibo Nutty Lady • Binary Numbers: Byte-a-Damath • Modulo 12: Damath a la Mod • Trigonometric Functions: Trig-a-Damath • Scientific Notations: Sci-No-Damath • Logarithmic Functions: Log-a-Damath

  10. Let’s Play It! Volunteer? Anyone? George?

  11. Useful Websites • Online game http://download.cnet.com/Damath/3000-18516_4-10911683.html • Damath complete notes http://cnhsec.weebly.com/uploads/2/1/7/7/217748/damath_notes.pdf

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