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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.
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Show What you Know about
Decimals
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You will create a challenging board game
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You board game must require players to complete high-level,
decimal computations (addition, subtraction, division,
multiplication)
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In addition, include: rounding, place value and exponents into
your game
Challenging board games have:
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Roadblocks and false paths that make you backtrack
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“lucky” squares that helps you to advance
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Planning
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Choose a setting for your game board
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Castle?
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Cave?
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Biztown?
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Colonial Times?
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Jungle?
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Digestive Tract (one of the Body Systems we will be studying)
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Your own creative idea
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Planning
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How will players win?
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Number of points?
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Reaching the end?
Decide how players will move around the game board
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Selecting cards and figuring out problems?
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Rolling dice?
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Both?
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Developing your Gameboard
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Make a draft of your board
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Add details
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Use good judgment in determining questions to answer in
order to move around the board
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Think of adventure and misadventures for your game
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“see a shooting star…round 12.394 to the nearest tenth to make a
wish and move forward 5 spaces”
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“Fall off a cliff…Multiply 15.7 X .00003 correctly or move back 3
spaces”
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Designing
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You may use whatever you like to make the design of your
board
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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:
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+, -, 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.)
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Organizing
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Finish your game board
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Type the rules of your game – focus on clear directions and
correct conventions
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Organize the cards and/or dice
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Make sure it looks PROFESSIONAL
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Neat, organized, interesting to look at and mathematically
challenging
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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/gameboards.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